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Best Tawny Poems

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The Tawny Throstle
Trudging under frozen starlit skies
Against stiff Winters bitter blowes...
When ambling up past frosted trees
From the wooded valley down below.

As stepping into a clearing glade,
Surround ragged...

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Categories: tawny, bird,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unsure the Shore
Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...

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Categories: tawny, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dusk
Melting sorrows drift toward tomorrow
when sounds dance in hushed irrelevance.
Sacred seconds are held in creation's tawny yolk
as crystal waves of wind bid farewell to this...

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Categories: tawny, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tawny, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zeal of November
My evening sky glints motifs gold
In orange vibes turned ruby bold
Glowing remnants of shining snow
Where pewter winds merrily blow
Swirling imprints of amber glaze
Bending hues of...

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Categories: tawny, eve, morning, november, seasons,
Form: Lay



Premium Member Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and...

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Categories: tawny, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: tawny, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Reverie of Roses
when last rays of autumn - tip toe along to sunset streaked reveries

listen to the crisp breeze of fallen fairies - truth floats through tawny...

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Categories: tawny, butterfly, i love you,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Beside the Sea
Beside the sea i wait~
the dreamy dawn to shine
and paint horizon's hue
in tawny, taupe and teal
unveiling vivid view.

Beside the sea I wait~
the early birds in...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tawny, inspiration, ocean, sea,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member September
Stepping gently in, on the edge of summer
You are the one who mellowed glorious sun
On playgrounds, picnics, frolicking in fun
In euphony of birdsongs of amiable...

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Categories: tawny, seasons, september,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Reap
it pulls ...
tugs on the core like a fulcrum
black ... mysterious ... warm ... final
harvest of all terrors
(for some)
yet ...
it is the magic of moonglow
the...

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Categories: tawny, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member November Wonders
The floor was carpeted with wonderful trees,
stomped and storm-clawed leaves
they arise again as specks of magic dust
fire starts from ash on the eyelashes
air-blazing amid the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tawny, analogy, appreciation, autumn, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member August
Ailing in this unending simmering incineration,
Undulation and swelter of sun-violated wheat,
Gasping for air and sucking in heat...Vertiginous visions visit me
Under a stinging sky: days heat-glazed...

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Categories: tawny, august,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Autumn Serenade POTD
10-20-23
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autumn serenade

autumn spreads her wings
 arias of tawny hues ~
  summer drifts to sleep

amber moon rises
 pumpkins reflect twilight song ~
  shadows breathe...

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Categories: tawny, autumn, color, song,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Winged Snowflakes
Jack Frost, Jack Frost, how we feel your icy touch.
The earth lies under your freezing clutch.
You are a sneaking thief coming to steal the russet...

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Categories: tawny, environment, seasons, snow,
Form: Rhyme

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