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Best Surpassingly Poems


I Once Was the Ruler of Rome
I was placed by my peers as a Consul of Rome,
Teeming city it was that I'd always called home.
My fair wife was a slave I'd seen fit to set free,
But she chose to instead make a husband of me.

The gods seemed to smile upon us...

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Categories: surpassingly, best friend, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
My Grandmother's Ruby Ring
Did not filter
down to me
who wanted it.  I
was not as great a beauty 
as my mother, one
of 8 my grandmother
birthed: 2 daughters
made the cut.
My mother in sepia 
light of an old 
photograph is seated
at the piano, head
bent over sheet music 
as if about to...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surpassingly, desire,
Form: Blank verse
Measuring a Corn Field
The whole world I can measure in this cornfield.
Why would I need
to go to Indiana or Pennsylvania
or Katmandu?

Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of the corn is here.
Yes Indiana has its rustic temples also ~
as does Kentucky and Idaho,
all over the world the...

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Categories: surpassingly, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



slaying dragons
Slaying dragons


I sat in my den, trying to compose a poem
which is not easy for a pretender
a scream from the living room, she heard
something in the kitchen and sent me there
to slay the dragon
I found a tiny mouse, knocking over 
an empty plastic bottle of water
I picked...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surpassingly, adventure, anti bullying, color,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things