Best Tented Poems


Premium Member Butterfly Whispers
...The golden sun of yesterday
played out in fields of gold 
inside the tarping memory of father, handling LIFE   
the joyful whistles that he fluted pruned alongside vines 
and mothe......

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Categories: tented, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
War
...Bloodthirsty men in black
God is great they chant
As they discharge a barrage 
Of bullets from a mounted mobile gun
This round they’ve won it seems
Another dad has died
Another mum has cried
C......

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© Roy Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tented, war,
Form: Free verse
Trail
...The trail through the woods seemed all the heartening
as trees that tented crossed unto their side.
Their light seen glowing off them in an ora
to the life felt growing deepening inside.

For th......

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Categories: tented, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Quatrain

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Premium Member The Curse of the Gypies
...Underneath the light of the full moon, a she-creature
Prowls through the thickets wild.
Stalking quietly waiting for the canvas city to
Slumber into a lazy sleep, ever closer silent sleek black
P......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tented, adventure, fantasy, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ouija Board
...The shifting of many corporeal hands move across this dead cell,
A vacuums vortex, a psychic sponge, charging this battery of
Energy called the spirit board.
Paranormal phenomenon striking plate t......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tented, evil, fear, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Five Ducklings Feeding
...Five ducklings feeding

The back of the camper bus
proudly sported the family 
seven yellow stickers ducks 
five little ducklings in a line
feeding on life presented to
the world growth susten......

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Categories: tented, childhood, family, father, life,
Form: Free verse


Four Africa Poems
...MOMBASA

Full moon uneasiness
Veranda dining, seven course style,
One day after my thirty sixth birthday,
I dine alone, in a poem.
Waiting for the Moon to pass to wane 
and contemplate for Zan......

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Categories: tented, adventure, africa, travel, universe,
Form: Free verse
Can I Ever Return
...Reborn, a Christian fallacy
dreams that have haunted me
left handed, what a shame
someone has to bear the blame

a teddy bear that never speaks
guards the child from attic squeaks
goulish figu......

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tented, childhood, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
The Evangelist
...The Evangelist

There comes a man, more cursed than not
Spiritually guided, or so he must be
To remind the children of things they forgot
Of the price of salvation and eternity
With the staff o......

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Categories: tented, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Yolks and Whites, the Remix
...Time's natural evolutionary purpose
and revolutionary EarthTribal meaning
is primordial eco-centric gratitude for being,
as compared to human nature's language 
of becoming some intent we are not......

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Categories: tented, destiny, earth, nature, power,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Zoom Meetings
...Zoom meetings can be educational 
          giving you the chance to 
      meet people with exceptional  
                    verses like you   

Each person takes their time to read aloud 
  ......

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Categories: tented, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Journey
... I set out on a long journey by train 
That spans from end to end
Out through the window flashed past 
Assorted scenes one by one
Sky scrapers and mud hovels, 
Steaming cities and pe......

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Categories: tented, anxiety, fate, future, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day I Saw the Elephant
...Pile drivers have replaced gandy dancers
And Mayflower trucks the circus, open-cage parades
Horse drawn down Main Street U.S.A.,

But overnight canvas bosses still command
Roust abouts to raise ......

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Categories: tented, america, growing up, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Rusted Lips
...Orange lines form on the plump pink structure
Creases start to form in-between breathes
Yellow surrounds the formation
Slight dark tented color, the trace of a mark
To where her tooth once lay
Garbag......

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Categories: tented, life,
Form: Personification
Nate- When a Baby Dies
...Torrential rain  

stabs at the ground as

I stand here still wearing shock 

like a soldier in

war torn uniform

So recent was


the surgery that


removed

your lifeless body fro......

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Categories: tented, baby, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
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