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Best Surreptitious Poems

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Surreptitious Breaths
Silken linens scented of 

  last night's rendezvous,

     still wafting midst

         reticent...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sweet Talkers of the Devil
Sweet Talkers of the Devil

Reptiles in human suits are the true sweet talkers of the devil,
and are well known among the various societies in our...

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Categories: surreptitious, allegory, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Enticing Twilight
Written: October 10, 2023   
Night Bewitches                  ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, analogy, appreciation, dream, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sipping coffee
Written: December 31, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse
Word Hoard
They say if you don’t use a thing for a year
It’s time to get rid of it, just to be clear
Feel free to sell it...

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Categories: surreptitious, education, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



A Book
When a child if gifted with a book it transforms into a key to unlock the mind.  The gate to the secret garden of...

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Categories: surreptitious, adventure, books, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Weathered Door

I stand-
gazing     at the weathered    door-
beautiful    the knob is old brass

foliage   dark ...

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Categories: surreptitious, future, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Touch
A TOUCH
On an impulse, but oft rehearsed in dreams,
A surreptitious larceny that seems,
In recollection pure and innocent,
Yet still concealing passionate intent
And yearning, for its chaste...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, first love,
Form: I do not know?
Dali Driven
"Curls...
Of spring passion?
Lacerations of decadence?
coiled in ringlets at the nape of her neck-
light wrapped in strands iridescent and bent
toward her silhouette's kiss.
Shadows on a match...

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Categories: surreptitious, art, happiness, people,
Form: Free verse
Future's Historical Oracle
Oh what fun it is to watch the surreptitious actions
of the globalist  elite,

And the open mouthed innocent ignorance of
their following sheep.

Feeding the pseudo enlightened...

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Categories: surreptitious, history
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unveiling the True Meaning of Love
Written: September 21, 2023
True Love Poetry Contest                 Sponsored by:...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, analogy, appreciation, beauty, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Mysterious Muse
A cartridge filled with a horde of shackled emotions, am I,
Trifle feelings loiter within me, until she elicits them out,
Wizened by time, she knows that...

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Categories: surreptitious, appreciation, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elixir of Silence
Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned 
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory calm
Elapse the chaos,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surreptitious, analogy, appreciation, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Soon, Too Soon
Escaped! furtive glances
   Manifest of enchanted trances
Arrested by crimson faces averted
   Too soon, too soon, they'd flirted

The air yearned with sensation
...

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Categories: surreptitious, innocence, lost love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Lonely
My Mother, like many saints, is compassionate,
Though lion-like, my father is considerate;
Like banyan tree, my family is well-branched out,
Grandmas, Grandpa, Uncles, Aunts - all are...

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Categories: surreptitious, life, lonely, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things