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Best Thinned Poems

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Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: thinned, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cities of Sonnets
It was tantalizing, sweet completion
Lines of blue ink filling white space
Tastes of emotions, colors of consonants
Music of vowels, syllables singing
To create, and satiate

Then, time thinned
Responsibility...

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Categories: thinned, appreciation, creation, journey, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goethe's Path
I once stepped into a labyrinth, that grew upon the crest

The unraveled trail through silver pines, where ferns and grasses wept,
Where birdsongs rose, from scattered...

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Categories: thinned, nature, riddle,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nature's a Wizard
She morphs into a sultry summer's morn
garbed in a cloak of alabaster fog,
gossamer thin and casually worn.
And echoing the croaks of a bullfrog
She starts to...

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Categories: thinned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Winds of Change
For forty days and nights, a tempest strange
blew in; the lost unsaved by fortresses.
One shelter only from those winds of change:
an ark that sailed to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thinned, god, jesus, sea, storm,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Of Ghosts and Relationships
of ghosts and relationships 

when we meet again
I need to talk to you
to say things like goodbye.

use words that have eaten me
slowly
as they formed one...

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Categories: thinned, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musings On Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
Some parts of life are permanent,
alas, some aspects not:
The morning temperature feels chill;
by midday it grows hot.
The money spent on cell phones'
long-term value which I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thinned, love, marriage, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rough Roads To Roam
The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes...

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Categories: thinned, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snow Replay
Not Again! six inches on top of the snow we already had! This started out to be a blank verse sonnet, but it didn't turn...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thinned, snow, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Ever Turning Circle
In winter’s white, as angels cry
for early spring to warm the wind,
to bring to life with gentle sigh,
in love, the bitter frost has thinned.

For early...

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Categories: thinned, faith, inspirational, nature, sea,
Form: Pantoum
I Will Not Fear the Silent Night (Trijan Refrain)
I will not fear the silent night
alone below the moon
or winter’s cold approaching bite-
the sting that comes too soon.
I’ll wrap my heart in Summer’s song
And...

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Categories: thinned, depression, faith, hope, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Rock Paper Scissors
You used to be my strength, my rock
I looked to you for comforting thoughts
Till you thinned like paper
Your caring tapered
And like scissors you cut me...

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Categories: thinned, life, loss
Form: Limerick
Desperate Doll
Daughter, neglected by maternity
A button missing were her eye should be
Abused and abundant by paternity
Her limb missing were her leg should be
Expected to know the...

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Categories: thinned, abuse, school,
Form: Rhyme
Behold the Sun of Gold
With wistful EYES I watched him RISE;  the dawning sun
Aloft, he TREAD, golden wings SPREAD, and day had begun
Above the GLADE, he was robed...

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Categories: thinned, feelings, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beinn Nibheis - Scene 1
I sit and pause, looking at the sky blue ceiling above me. White vapour cotton wool clouds
gently float like water lilies on an upside down...

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Categories: thinned, animals, inspirational, nature, places,
Form: Free verse

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