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Best Succeeding(A) Poems

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Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: succeeding(a), environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Endless Chorus of Tears - Diana Ross Tribute
Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: succeeding(a), loneliness, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Categories: succeeding(a), america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spring's Kindness
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the...

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Categories: succeeding(a), appreciation, inspiration, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pyramus-Thisbe - a Selfless Love-W
Pyramus was the handsome young man
Thisbe the fair maiden of Babylon.
The houses of their parents did adjoin 
Neighborhood brought the two in relation.
And the acquaintance...

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Categories: succeeding(a), death, fire, for her,
Form: Chant Royal



Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: succeeding(a), conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Yearn Not For the Ships That Sailed
Applauding sun’s halo~ inspiring, rewarding,
Mindfully I rise with the ebullient awakening
Letting soul enliven while robins are singing
And horizon crimson glimmers in dawning.

I hold time still...

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Categories: succeeding(a), inspiration, life, motivation,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Spring's Kindness - a Collaboration With Regina Mcintosh
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the...

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Categories: succeeding(a), appreciation, beauty, inspiration, joy,
Form: Free verse
The Waters of Life
Plunge
into 
the joyous 
waters of life.
Nourish compassion
with graceful fountains of
love, replenished with caring.
Bathe in the light of awareness.
Drench your soul with spirit’s sense of peace.
Shine...

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Categories: succeeding(a), inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Spring Is Coming Soon
Snow draped folds like loose Cashmere curtains cover the evergreen boughs
pining for the lengthening days of each succeeding sunrise,
reticent to see the cold of night...

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Categories: succeeding(a), seasons, spring,
Form: Acrostic
Winter Tides
Storm swept seas assault the shore
Lashing out with rage unsated
Attacking with the wrath of Thor
Oceans temper unabated

Reaching out with icy hands
Fists of foam grip granite...

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Categories: succeeding(a), sea,
Form: Rhyme
Face To Face With a Nameless Dame
Hold your fire
Let your sharp tongue retire
When to the fore sneaks your ire

Increasing carelessness danger
Thinking in your mind you’re an indomitable ranger
Although in your own...

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Categories: succeeding(a), poems,
Form: Free verse
Achievement
Almost reaching desired dreams...
requiring, pushing all I achieved.
Failing, attempting many times before...
conjuring, struggling and so much more!
Loving support from friends and family.
Thankful for, making my...

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Categories: succeeding(a), appreciation, career, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
In Her Eyes
Looking into her eyes.

I feel so safe.

For once I am complete.

Life seems so much better with her

in it.

She is the air I breathe

in so many...

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Categories: succeeding(a), friendship, happiness, hope, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Crush, a Love
 
I met him when so young, a crush, a love
on silky words I hung
they just slid smooth off his tongue
now, a memory among

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February 17,...

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Categories: succeeding(a), crush,
Form: Quatrain

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