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Best Transitory Poems

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Transitory
“Look up,” she cried,
And the rains came swiftly,
Overwhelming her youth
With migrant purpose.

Summer’s demise,
So abrupt,
Interrupted her sound-scape,
Giving her pause.

“Look around,” she said,
And autumn bowed to her,
A...

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Categories: transitory, caregiving, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: transitory, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: transitory, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member By God's Grace
I, who always used to gravitate toward health and fitness,
would flatter myself that I was too healthy to ever get a bad disease.
Then it happened!...

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Categories: transitory, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Love's Tribulation
Treasures of love's white passion flowers
Sweet with desire, so dearly sought;
The breathless unrest of seeing you
For just a happy hour or two
Is bought with such...

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Categories: transitory, love, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Soul Divine
A candle burns deep, in core of every soul,
A sacred flame, an ethereal halo of intellect,
A guide heavenly, a mystique that educates,
Defying overtures of egotism...

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Categories: transitory, inspirational, peace, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Categories: transitory, beauty, birth, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightenment
Away from the fever and fret of life
In absolute stillness, in abject surrender
Looking into the core of my being
In deep silence and solitude 
In an...

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Categories: transitory, devotion, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Evolution of a Broken Heart
“The Evolution of a Broken Heart”



In thy hands, 
I gently placed it

lacking hesitation’s pleas and virtues
‘twas ne’er a time to be uncourageous
plucked somewhere from deep...

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Categories: transitory, abuse, betrayal, destiny, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cruella De 'Vile' - Was My Mother In Law
I never ever meant to ALIENATE Cruella my mother in law
But her CAPRICIOUS INURBANE manner was really pretty poor

Cruella was PERSPICUOUS in her opinion and...

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Categories: transitory, conflict, humorous, mother, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member As Lovers Go
When Summer starts her transitory reign, 
King Sun, her beau, has steadily ascended, 
brightening a sky that, for a time, 
shall be his lovely mistress’...

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Categories: transitory, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Personification
......Helter Skelter.......
"Tertium guid...."
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Spending a few moments pondering

The syllogism of existentialism, and

All of the pages of histories

Finds, movements, theories and themes....

The intricities; complexities

Compounds; variables and factors

Real or...

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Categories: transitory, historyhalloween,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Winter Wonderland
Freshly fallen snow... a carpet of white
Blinding pure covering... satin on fields 
Under crystal stars bright in clear moonlight
Blowing snow gathers into drifts and yields
Scattering...

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Categories: transitory, imagery, magic, snow, symbolism,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Remembering Rwanda
Before the blast in April's darkened sky. . .  
before the electrifying surge of insurgency -
when trucks and tanks were used to block the...

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Categories: transitory, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Art of Morning
Upon rising, awakened by 
ripening scent teasing my nose, 
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transitory, art, creation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things