Best Troths Poems

'Twas the time of Summer solstice, they wed
Verdant leaves clung to trees; the month was June
Whispered troths of love, sacred vows were said
'fore fauna, rising sun and waning moon

Prince Largent was soon to be crowned as king
but Mekram, the wise, held grief in his eyes
He...

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Oceans Apart But Always In My Heart.
.
How I love the ocean cascading crescent waves
That gently kiss and caress the golden sands
So tenderly as I used to do to you
With warm soft pillowed lips 
And my loving gentle hands
.
With feather-like teasing touches as a pleasant sea...

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This land was your land this land is their land
yet sad is my tail of woe as people steal and gloat
the Ottoman wealth was gained
from the sale of Palestine's shore's  

The peasants of poverty cried out in vain
the land of their fathers drifted away
stolen...

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How I recall my thralldom as a man!
Base troths with idols, rituals of lust,
Hellish haven, hot blood; too late thou learn'st
Drowning desire and pleasure-profaned ban.

But sin may lead where virtue never can:
I - burning, thirsting, bleeding, dying - thirst
For love. Abandoned I, by mandrake curs't,
My...

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My hand in yours,
Your hand in mine;
Holding on tight,
Fingers entwine.

Myriad promises,
Between our palms;
Reaching out across,
With outstretched arms.

Silent troths,
Exchanged in breath;
Keeping close,
Condensed to warmth.

We danced around,
Round and round;
In a merry-go-round,
Of love profound.

Like a game of 
Ring around a rosy;
Whirling to the rhythm,
Of love until dizzy.

Colors around,...

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This is the date we have chosen,
                        forever, it will stand tall.
   For today, time will be frozen,
  ...

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At dusk daylight realities shy away and hide
Beneath black fantasies and reasons subside
Twilight traces the contours of desires
Wild fantasies set aflame amorous fires
Darkness dawns upon chaste conscience
Casting a wanton spell over the ambience
Dreams of dusk draped in capricious wants and whims
Cravings and impulses over youthful...

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The slurry flows with diligence
from the troths of complacency
fed by noble gravity to plummet
in pools of needless flesh discarded.

No deity commands such diligence
within this moribund dance of death
since platitudes of human thought
form these adept doctrines of decay.

Every living thing hangs in balance
behind our jewel of...

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Initially, an attempt 
sought regarding Das scribe,
yours truly donning checkerboarded rawhide
collared, cuffed oversize raiment, pride
and prejudice obscured
courtesy hand-me-downs
couture also decking out

alley oop trapeze artist bride
of Frankenstein grooming in attendance
with her bonafide
circus motley crew, a veritable
monster mish mashup 
happenstance didst decide
unlike traditional feted newlyweds
swingers airborne did...

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Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.

I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.

Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination, and predilection
to glean from an assortment
of books esoteric learning
since... birth,...

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Promises are bestowed
Pledges made from their hearts
Precious vows of marriage
Proclaiming troths of love
Plighted to each other
Personified with rings
Partners 'til death do part



April 10, 2021
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Annette Arnold had recently left college
And was thrust into flimsy dating realms; 
She grabbed pen and paper to describe
Top-choice dude of her fanciest dreams. 

Dashingly handsome and of complexion nice,
And gallant gait akin to quaint legends' knight;
Sainted for inventive hare's monstrous brains,
Whose vast wit tales...

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Eyes that search, but never see
         Hearts that yearn, yet writhe unfree

       Minds closed tight, that fear to think
         Two troths pledged ~...

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Echoes of your diffusive elegies, in the core of your rare piercing beautiful soul, recollections of somber yesteryears, sprouting deep lacerations and stigmatized unseen wounds, blackened in your gold heart, bleeding out your profundity, engulfed in nights of madness, my Venus.
 Frustrations and illusions in...

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