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Best Tumblers Poems

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Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
Take me to the place where the aromatic fragrance
threatens to envelop our obelisks glorifying death;
to the place where the seraphim of old long to steal...

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Categories: tumblers, appreciation, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Romanticism



French Fry
Life is short,
life is spry
like a crisp, little french fry
that gets stolen 
if you fail to watch over it.

It's written in the name 
of two...

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Categories: tumblers, 12th grade, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brahman Nemesis
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tumblers, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Success
If success were lock
and persistence be its key
Would life's tumblers move?...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tumblers, life
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Vapor Lock
Once upon a time while touring ancient Egypt land,
A frugal auld tourist from the bonny land of Scotland,
Decided the mysterious pyramids he desired to see,
And...

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Categories: tumblers, funny, travel, time,
Form: Rhyme



Flowing Water
FLOWING    WATER

Though my boat be shaken and tossed,
Serenity is in the mind, in the soothed  soul --
My spirit’s not aching or...

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Categories: tumblers, allegory, peace, boat, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Colors of Love
Our fingers interweave, like a key in a lock
The tumblers click into place, and the world opens
Warm, orange glow between our hearts
Coursing down our arms...

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Categories: tumblers, color, love, wife,
Form: Free verse
And She Lies Sheltered Beneath the Oak
 
(There was roast chicken too with potatoes and cheese, though in the picture not seen! Before the shot it had been gobbled up...)


A table...

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Categories: tumblers, allegory, flower, food, metaphor,
Form: Ekphrasis
Final Exam
This mental scene came over me while finishing my abnormal psych final: 
A pack of about 12 guys all wearing
Sweat pants and no undergarments
**** stars
No...

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Categories: tumblers, adventure
Form: Free verse
Three Times In An Hour
Lying there feeling warm and replete 
Looking up to the sky, this is real neat
I never thought-that I would see three
But that was just granted...

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Categories: tumblers, cowboy-western, nature, stars,
Form: Verse
Villanelles
Villanelles

The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain. 



Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first...

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Categories: tumblers, moon, repetition, romance, romantic,
Form: Villanelle
Orpheus, Emerged Updated
Orpheus' long, slow, crawl out of Hell
Has left him nothing -- not even himself!

Long had he traveled, sorrowing, with his bride,
and many terrors endured, and...

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Categories: tumblers, anger, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Two Steps Ahead
You’ve met me,
but you just don’t know it yet
The dream house that you want,
I once polar bear hibernated there ...
two winter moons ago

The summer fruit...

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Categories: tumblers, conflict, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Epic
Culinary Nutcraker
The water fluttered under the glass boiling in envy of itself
Marching to the sleek inner coating along the candid sphere like a band of drums...

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Categories: tumblers, food, water, red, water,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Next Full Moon
I hear music
Distant, but clear
Such soothing solace
A pleasant tone
To my ear

You lay before my eyes
Swift grace
And tumblers pride
I hold you
A warm embrace

Together our souls melt
Listening...

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Categories: tumblers, life, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs