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Best Thresh Poems

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Winter's Afterglow
stars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.

she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thresh, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shadows of Sacrifice
Such horrid forfeit wars yet thresh
          A scree of youth in blood and flesh
  ...

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Categories: thresh, absence, death, lonely, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reap
it pulls ...
tugs on the core like a fulcrum
black ... mysterious ... warm ... final
harvest of all terrors
(for some)
yet ...
it is the magic of moonglow
the...

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Categories: thresh, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scum of the Earth
There’s a sense in which all life is scum on this earth
(without God as creator), life here (more debris
that just floats on the surface of...

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Categories: thresh, faith, fun, philosophy, science,
Form: Rhyme
Elegy of the Aisle
A memory of tears filled eyes
How can I forget this precious aisle?
The aisle you walk in your gown-shy
Now carries your silent and dire

How can I...

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Categories: thresh, love, memory, memory,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member shadow play -
you spurn ... I burn
    your touch is aphotic nirvana
       a lurid and misty Elysium, pure
...

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Categories: thresh, metaphor, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Farm Sense
Shotgun shells, fireworks, an empty casing,
Burnt gunpowder sensed with imagined smell,
Bring a smile as the mind begins onward racing,
Of times past and grand stories to...

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Categories: thresh, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Wisdom's Sting
oh there, the dappled meadows held
   our dreams, though unassuming
 love twined amidst the highland fells
like grasses thresh -
 sweet saffron flesh 
...

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Categories: thresh, love, wisdom, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Amid the Feeble Dimness
In the midst of midnight croon 
laden with stars, the sky bends 
refracting light into a spectrum 
of drifting colour mystique blithe. 

Beauteous in a...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thresh, fear, imagery, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wisdom's Sting
oh there, the dappled meadows held
our dreams, though unassuming
love twined amidst the highland fells
like grasses thresh - sweet saffron flesh 
two callow hearts soft-blooming ...

we...

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Categories: thresh, analogy, passion, wisdom, youth,
Form: Rhyme
What If You Are Wrong
You know within that you are right!

Your words tear at our guarded flesh.
Canines raging at every bite.
Life's essence weeps after each thresh.
Silence does not mean...

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Categories: thresh, abuse, anger, conflict, hate,
Form: Rhyme
About the 1500's
Most people got married in June because
They took their yearly bath in May
Body odor was the reason
Of the flowers in a bouquet

A big tub of...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thresh, england, history, people,
Form: Quatrain
Summer's Heat
osmatic breezes awaken my mind
within the breadth of summer's heat, they rise
then fall through thoughts and memories entwined
confined no longer, i see with these eyes
you...

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Categories: thresh, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Before You Go
Before you go know this of me
lying here, beneath this tree,
that I once had your dreams too
but all too quickly my life here flew,
forced to...

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© John Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thresh, remembrance day, war,
Form: Rhyme
Imagine
Imagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer...

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Categories: thresh, fantasy, imagination, space,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs