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Best Sustaining Poems

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Premium Member The Four Elements In Nature and Humanity
Fire catches fast, then sweeps through grass and trees.
The lion of the elements, it roars,
and burning hot, displays its awesome might.
Fire signs are one of...

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Categories: sustaining, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: sustaining, weather,
Form: Prose
Premium Member selfless syllables

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. . . a souvenir of selfless stars salute,
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Categories: sustaining, dedication, encouraging, friend, stars,
Form: Alliteration
Questions To Ponder
What flowers do we most cherish?

Ones with such aroma they consume our senses,
as sweet purfumed, honeysuckle clad fences,
or those of brilliant hues springing boldly from...

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Categories: sustaining, appreciation, beauty, thanks,
Form: Verse
Premium Member An Oasis In the Storm
There's an oasis of calm within you,
That stress cannot erase.
It shows in the way you cope with things,
Though not always on your face;

But you have...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustaining, courage, faith, hope,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Stoic Path of Virtue
Written: October 28, 2023
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Among the living is where perfection is found.
Stoicism...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustaining, analogy, appreciation, courage, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pride of the Motherland
Riding an elephant
Down the narrow trail looking triumphant
Scanning the golden landscape
Like Hannibal with enemies in flight
Sight from a lofty height
King of the jungle moving
With lioness...

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Categories: sustaining, adventure, history, hope, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Divine Cascade
Glist'ing drops
Splashing into fine mist—
I become one with the waterfall.

Feeling joy
As droplets kiss my face
And enter my soul’s most sacred place.

Crystalline,
Anointing me with love,
Sustaining all...

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Categories: sustaining, baptism, blessing, love, water,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In the Forest of My Dreams
Where conifers gaily waltz tempos evergreen
Unspoiled by human deeds, pure, and pristine,
Eagles soar there, spanning freedom wings 
And trees gently whisper to rhythmic bird trills
Echoing...

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Categories: sustaining, environment, inspiration, rainforest,
Form: Verse
The Sun Rises--The Moon Sets
The Sun Rises- -The Moon Sets 


Think of life, the cycle of 
How radiation can support life, enough heat to
Ensure a stable self sustaining system.

Something...

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Categories: sustaining, life, naturemoon,
Form: Acrostic
A Musing
She said, if I correctly recall,                  
That, for...

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Categories: sustaining, destiny, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Follows Winter
The leaves are sleeping,
motionless at dawn
Waiting for a breeze
to whisper life into them
Lifting, parting soft shadows
 on stray sunbeams
Waiting for  the sun to turn...

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Categories: sustaining, inspirational, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Love
Our love is lofty and infinite as the sky
On love’s filmy wings we soar ever high
It has the might of a towering mountain
And the upward...

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Categories: sustaining, blessing, celebration, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters,
Guarded on sides by oceans three,
In the east by the Pacific,
On the south by the Celebes Sea,
And on the west by...

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Categories: sustaining, beautiful, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bloody Mary
In the flickering of the ethereal candlelight, as the greenish blue flame
Burns dimly against the ancient mirror of reflections, the necromancer
Chants in rhythms rhythmic undertones,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustaining, fantasy, halloween, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse

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