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Best Syl Poems

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Premium Member Streams In the Desert
This misty river, scented sweet
From bare land you enthrall,
To quench the evening's sultry heat
Beside your cooling wall.

Low tide lends magic to this rite
To twirl upon...

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Categories: syl, creation, hope, uplifting,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Rites of Harvest Moon --Hexsonnetta
When harvest moon alights,
to sail like gauzy lace
on through a cloud’s embrace...
I watch her mystic rites,
as beaming, she excites
my lithesome hours of grace.

How glorious the...

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Categories: syl, beauty, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Facing the Hurt
To ride the sea is a pleasure and a curse
as huddle of gulls, starfish dart from nowhere
enchanting frolic on breakers, they traverse
into buoyant laps with...

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Categories: syl, courage, fear, hurt,
Form: Ottava rima
Somewhere Back Into the Childhood
Putting a reverse gear,
I'll go back, 
Where no religion or 
Boundaries, could be listed. 
One cared only for dolls.

By: Archana Garg
Dt: 9th January 2015

Total syl....

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Categories: syl, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kindred
Kindness at home breeds love
Keeping family warm…
Kids, parents join hearts to
Knit times with gaiety;
Knowing sweet acts open
Keys of faith…and household
Kneels in worship as one.


Contest: Pleiades...

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Categories: syl, family, love, together,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Probability In Life
face uncertainty; 
art of seeing the hidden
trial and error

Syl. count 5/7/5...

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Categories: syl, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Flesh, Resurrected
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When hunchbacked skulls drip of shrapnel stains
Of raked life quilted with torn-out noises, 
Watery clay defrosts past maimed pains 
As silk skies reap a smudge...

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Categories: syl, life,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member My Second Hand Toyota Revo
Advertising triolet poem with narrative:


 Toyota Revo
(triolet)

A four-wheel drive,even purchased as second-hand
Still runs smoothly and safe, never trundles around
With its superlative engine, mileage is grand
A...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: syl, appreciation, car,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Martha Graham, a Maverick
HANDMAIDEN OF MOON DANCING



fly me to stars in the thrill of one swan night
over a crescent arc to feel a flame of sighs,
teasing dreams so...

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Categories: syl, art, inspirational, me, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oblivious
I strut the lane of vagrancy
With breaths choking from evening’s plea,
As lampposts dip across the night
When love undone grates my delight;
Reflecting scenes... a cracked marquee.

Trapped...

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Categories: syl, absence, sad love,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Swirl With Me
my love, stay gently wild

and foxtrot with me

to swirl in flaming dips

of night… heavenly!



6/5/6/5/syl count
Giorgio V's Laconic Contest
by nette onclaud...

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Categories: syl, desire, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ladder of Bright Trail
Blue tunnel glimmers where dome meets the ray
in cadence of  lulled sleep, its final veil...
the flight grows misty in a blooming sway
as my soul...

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Categories: syl, happiness, heaven, uplifting,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Clusters of Blooms
As clusters of blooms rustle to sashay,
Peonies, roses, and lilies delight
With hints of peach, of gold in fine array!

Their rich fragrance wafts on a summer...

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Categories: syl, beautiful, flower, wedding,
Form: Villanelle
Fully Booked Part 2
In sentient shades of silence
The heart endures from tyrants
Love lives lachrymosely long
My heart shows its prong.


June.22.2016
PART 2, FULLY BOOKED - Poetry Contest
By nette onclaud

~compose ONE...

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Categories: syl, august, betrayal, emotions, hurt,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Somewhere
Somewhere,
when our lips finally meet,
and the rush of the world stops
It's there, in the fragrance,
love will be forever warm


contest Somewhere
Frederic Parker 1/7/15
29 syl...

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Categories: syl, kiss,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things