Best Tempts Poems
The Book of Her Body
...I lift you up, delicately
like a bouquet of flames in pink patient fever,
romantically, I rove your surface with fingertips that tingle,
the texture of your treated cover tempts an impatient lover......
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Categories:
tempts, love,
Form:
Ballad
The Monroe Moon
...In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with ......
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Categories:
tempts, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Are Flowers For Picking
...Are Flowers for Picking?
I question myself,
silently standing beside
the quaint wooden kiosk
in the centre of the square.
My eyes scan the freshly
picked assortment of roses,
carnations, ......
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Categories:
tempts, flower,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nemesis-POTD
...In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.
With nefarious intent, it see......
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Categories:
tempts, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Wellness and Worry
...Wellness and worry are by no means friends.
To be well, your mind of worry you must cleanse.
Living with worry, there’s a price to pay
worry will kill you if you let it stay.
If you want to enj......
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Categories:
tempts, analogy, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Caravan of Life
...I will always be a gypsy- woman filled with curiosity
Running wild beneath a moonglow grasping fireflies;
Then to quickly scribble impressions on leaves, my poetry:
How zest ignites visual a......
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Categories:
tempts, adventure, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
It's Hard To Pick Just One
...`
I have so many friends on soup,
it’s hard to pick just one
To narrow down to just a few,
it just cannot be done
Heidi always brings a smile
Brenda tempts my heart
Sandy posts poetic drea......
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Categories:
tempts, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Hard To Say
...No
A small little word
And yet so hard to say
It tempts me to say
Maybe
Maybe I can make it work
I so desperately want to say yes
It hurts
Crushes me
To see you disappointed
Those times whe......
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Categories:
tempts, courage, family, future,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Potpourri
...I smell something so beautiful!
Many different fragrances are drifting toward me.
So many sachets of poetry are prettily displayed.
Such visual delights!
I stoop to relish one - a cit......
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Categories:
tempts, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
- Everything Is Better Barefoot -
...Blue
vision
Dipping toes
feel the softness
The warm breeze of the summer joys tempts me
Crystallized sand like feathers on the toes
Gold in my eyes
Breathe taking
and pure
bliss
......
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Categories:
tempts, beauty, life,
Form:
Tetractys
Calm Waves On Peaceful Seas
...Calm Waves On Peaceful Seas
Within Nature rests a rose scented breath
Its whispers a call against mortal death,
When brother sun it tempts to rise and shine
Sets dawn and......
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Categories:
tempts, appreciation, blessing, happiness, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
O' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask of Thee
...O' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask Of Thee
O'
shadow,
pray tell more
before midnight clock scores
and in its echoes lays to waste
souls yearning for life's sweeter taste
hearts pining to yo......
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Categories:
tempts, appreciation, art, creation, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Harem of the Flower Kisser
...at the break of dawn
a Hummingbird starts his rounds
Morning Glory sought
flaunting a red hue -
Mexican Sunflower tempts
looking hot, hot, hot
the Don Juan of birds
sucking nect......
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Categories:
tempts, blue, flower, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Spring
...SPRING
Testing the water with bare toes
I will recoil
to the misted edge of hoarfrost
softened soil
peek through eyes of Crocus
and Jonquil
at the emptiness my promise
must fullfil.
I’......
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Categories:
tempts, seasons, spring,
Form:
Personification
Paradise Lost
...When sultry ripples take a hold
Replacing naive dreams
And fantasy becomes so bold
Seductive in its schemes
It moves into her mundane life
And tempts her with such skill
That she woul......
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Categories:
tempts, desire, feelings, lust, paradise,
Form:
Verse