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Best Sulfur Poems

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Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: sulfur, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Ending of the Show
Have you ever listened to the silence?
Alone in the giant trees
Have you ever experienced your soul?
Being totally at ease
Have you ever stood atop a volcano?
Felt...

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Categories: sulfur, devotion, introspection, life, loveme,
Form: Quatrain
Fingered
Chamber of secrets
Locked in wisps of steel incense
Swabbed sulfur din...

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Categories: sulfur, allegory, life, mystery,
Form: Senryu
Moon Bridge
The moon so bold seems cold
with a halo of midnight glow
I sit mesmerized as the night grows old.

I bleed still, even after all these years
and...

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Categories: sulfur, absence, analogy, cry, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beholden To Hinnom
Valley of despair,
eager, burns eternal flames,
delivering souls.

Loathsome lake of fire,
choking forth ash and sulfur,
swallowing the damned.

Cursed, unholy ground,
biblical euphemism,
forge of wickedness....

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Categories: sulfur, religion
Form: Haiku



Nature's Art
There’s no comparison to Nature’s Art;
It’s seen with the eyes and felt with the heart;

I see it in the trees and the ground that I...

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Categories: sulfur, art, inspirational, introspection, nature
Form: Couplet
Premium Member But a Moment
I hold you ...
tight to my chest
but with a concerned tenderness,
as if you are an infant
that I am shielding from a storm ...
or an angel...

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Categories: sulfur, death, imagery, nature, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Smells Like Government

Rancid lemon rope squeeze
around a rotten tomato neck tie,
crooked odor bow hanging out of place 
Acid reflux raisin tax bleed;
dripping spoiled, milquetoast lies
out a sour-twisted,...

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Categories: sulfur, corruption, satire, truth, word
Form: Burlesque
The Price of Oil, Part I
The nurse ordered her to push, push, push
in her best proper voice 
and linen balled in red fists knotted
and sweat falls from red face knotted...

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© Sean Swain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sulfur, angst, death, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?
The Only Relevant Fear
The piercing stench of sulfur and death tears through my nostrils
Angels of retribution spread disaster as told by many apostles
My flesh melts but leaves not...

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Categories: sulfur, death, life, religion, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Nightmare of Reality -Part 2-
Her death STARING me down
Staring. . .
Her drooping eyes dangling low
Warm blood
COLD blood!
Don’t come any nearer!
I told you to leave!
You killed them all, one by...

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Categories: sulfur, angst, confusion, depression, me,
Form: Free verse
Inanimate Thing
At night, a huge creature floats to the surface of the tart ocean to dream into the moonlight, which barely penetrates the sulfur clouds. She...

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Categories: sulfur, death, dream, environment,
Form: Haibun
Go Away Spell
I hear your tiny fingers shuffle
against the textured walls, trying
to feel for a crack to slide into 
and hide from the fact that you are...

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Categories: sulfur, childhood, confusion, sympathy,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Ringing In the New Year
Nippy brisk night draws a cloudless backdrop.
Fireworks and gunfire shot into the air
Whistling, exploding ka-boom, pop, pop, pop
Lighting colorful spiral flowers, there.

Fireworks and gunfire shot...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sulfur, new year,
Form: Pantoum
Phoenix
strike a match.
sulfur grazes my nose.
the flames tickle
the surrounding sky.
internal screams,
questioning motives,
FIRE is born.

smoke infiltrates
my lung and throat.
coughing greets the
unwelcome visitor.

FIRE reaches out
touches my hair,
eliminating...

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Categories: sulfur, introspection, life
Form: Free verse

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