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Best Teary Poems

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Premium Member The Poet Who Never Was
I thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...

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Categories: teary, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: teary, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: teary, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



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Categories: teary, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Dancing With Mom
When I was just a wee one
          my mom taught me to dance
   ...

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Categories: teary, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Watercolor Afternoon
The rain set me adrift inside a dream
My mind was on a painting miles upstream
An unforgotten "en plein" I once viewed
A light pastoral springtime interlude

Two...

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Categories: teary, brother, emotions, memory,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member In Woes and Throes of Sorrow
I rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.

Neglected now, heartstrings'...

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Categories: teary, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Old Photographs
Opening the dusty leather bound album
Lots of memories come flooding back
Dad had a lot more hair back then!

Proud parents when our son was born
How he’s...

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Categories: teary, memory,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: teary, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gate
Regally it stands, the staunch guardian of her lonesome heart,
Reminiscing in revelries of yore, treasured memories impart,
Defying glum turbulence of now, hanging on to seasons...

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Categories: teary, emotions, memory, missing,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The River of Tears
Wind whistling through the weeping willow tree
Its teary leaves drip silently into the fast flowing river
They float freely dancing in the dappled daylight
Caught in the...

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Categories: teary, emotions, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: teary, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life At a Glance
Enamored, I sit, in mystique of space and time
Glancing at intricacies of ebullience sublime
Contemplating mystery of universe all alone
Through echoes of destiny, heard and known,
Where...

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Categories: teary, life,
Form: Rhyme
Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: teary, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Golden Hearts - ::POTD::
How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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Categories: teary, angel, bereavement, goodbye, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things