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Best Term Poems

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Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: term, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: term, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Unreachable
Intangible, the term your lips lightly exhale,
just as the wind found its voice -
           ...

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Categories: term, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Please, May I Walk Into Your Paradise With You - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
Please, May I Walk Into Your Paradise With You - A collaboration with  Susan Ashley
 
Please, may I walk into your paradise with you
with...

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Categories: term, art, beautiful, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
How About This For Veterans Day
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: term, patriotic,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Initiative
How do I tell you that you’re beautiful?

How can I be different?

How can I express my attraction?

When columns upon
Columns
Of testosterone filled wolves
Dressed in rented Italian...

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Categories: term, friendship, life, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dream
Let there be no hidden or disguised facades
Let there be achievable dreams; not hopeless mirages
Let there be no sorry but sunny days of happy faces
Let...

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Categories: term, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aloha Spirit
Aloha Spirit

Sol, with his golden crown, greets me each morning
within divine rays extending out over emerald hills
and valleys that absorb his warmth of abiding light.

View...

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Categories: term, bird, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: term, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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Categories: term, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Retired
Throw me high, higher still
Let me breathe again, 
Let me gain
height, I will
Live, smile, laugh, be filled
        ...

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Categories: term, dance,
Form: Rhyme
It
It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope.
It is love, stirred with hate that drips need
to bleed us, heal us and force our tired...

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Categories: term, emotions, humanity, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Mother Earth Etc
In the whisper of a moonlight stream I heard her sigh or so I thought, 
in the rustle of a mottled deer in oak pine...

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Categories: term, art, blessing, child, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Prophecy of Sand
Men, they say
Dominators
Slayers
Conquerors

We have been subjugated by their culture and rules
The norms and the religions of masculine fools
The laws and the clowns
The world one day...

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Categories: term, dedication, divorce, history,
Form: Free verse
Q Is For Quinoa
A is for Avocado, the creamy, green nutritious fat.
B is for Berries, the fruit that keeps your tummy flat.
 
C is for Chia, most nutrient-dense...

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Categories: term, food, health,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs