Best Unadorned Poems

Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist. 
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows. 
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no truth.
One day he realized that for this assertion to be true, it must...

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The trees branches naked and unadorned are looking upwards
soliciting help from the spring sunshine to warm its inner core
Leaves sprouting reaching out for the weak warmth, instant beauty...

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I could								
Try something new						
To win the heart in you					
Adopt the healthiest methods				
Perfect the rhythms of a different tune			
Get crazy with a spice or two				
And conquer with esteem					
But then that wouldn’t					
Be me...

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              falsified ashes
         uncharacteristic dust 
            synthetic flashes 
    ...

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Naked, skeletal, the forest shivers.
Bark thickening in the wily wind.
Unadorned the trees slumber on.
Their limbs seeming to fight off the
onslaught of nightmarish Winter.

Twig tips claw avengingly at the sky
and rake torn nails across windowpanes.
Slumber soothes not the dreamer
who waits in a frenzy of anguish 
for...

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"For loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is when unadorned, adorned the most" 
                     - James Thomson

She stood there unadorned, yet he...

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Although the rose is unadorned by dew, rain or sun… she shines still brighter when all her work is done. ~ quote by poet

If often seems that I’m like the gentle rose,
When my limbs are pruned, my spirit thrives and grows.
Like the rose, my deep...

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I ask, Lord, help me live my life with mercy,
and I promise to fill my days with acts of kindness;
empathy to all, forgiveness will drip from my lips,
I will be gracious, tender, for all my earthly days.

O, Lord, I will speak with honesty...

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“The suturing thread of the bejeweled hearts 
may snap, the shadow of love remains ornamented”-
Quote by poet 


The indelible image etched in my memory,
the tide of time couldn’t tow to the obscure sea. 	,
In its shimmering shore on the satin sands of hue 
I engraved...

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So unadorned is nature's gift to us
with flawless forms of animals so pure.
Their coats and faces stand out with no fuss,
as nature does provide inborn allure.

So unadorned- no false external signs
to re-enhance the beauty they behold:
their coats wrap them in intricate designs,
and perfect faces stand...

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“Unadorned is a heart that’s stripped of its beauty.”
                              -	Quote by poet 


She saw an empty...

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