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Best Understands Poems

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Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: understands, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Sleeping Beauty
It seems you only appear whilst I am asleep,
teasing rapid eye movement to awake and weep.
You hide, so I wonder how beautiful you must be,
fulfil...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: understands, beauty, love, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: understands, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member March 19 Memories
Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
in front of...

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Categories: understands, death, faith, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter To My Future Self
Hey are you still breathing?
Are you still believing,
or is your heart seething?
Does life still have meaning?
How's the word weaving,
is the ink still bleeding?
Tell me, does...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: understands, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti, 
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony 
of sunflower serenades.

In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...

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Categories: understands, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Something's Amiss POTD
I was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.

And every day held...

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Categories: understands, dream, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Forgotten Soul

I turn my head, and there she is once more
in her disheveled, worn, and tattered dress,
one pew behind me near the exit door-
she sits head...

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Categories: understands, emotions, feelings, poverty,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Simple Words For Simple People
If I had those pretentious brains which act faster than this heart

maybe then I would abhore this soul which spreads freely through each verse

maybe then...

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Categories: understands, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child of the King
I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I...

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Categories: understands, blessing, christian, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kensington Avenue
"Sweet child in time,
you'll see the line
the line that's drawn between
good and bad"

Having cold sweats again in this godforsaken ninety degree heat. Shivering uncontrollably. God,...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: understands, emotions,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Palette of Picturesque Pigment
Her persona is like 
a portrait 
   of picturesque perfection,
embalmed in 
  bittersweet lavender, 
unseen within depths 
of tributaries of elixir.
If only...

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Categories: understands, dark, deep, devotion, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shores of Uncertainty
As his mind drifts upon silent shores of uncertainty, 
he ponders what was, what is and what is yet to come.
He wonders why no one...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: understands, analogy, dark, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
Guardian Angels
Goodnight my dear boy and what's that you say?
You want me to chase the bad monsters away?
Well, I'll tell you a tale that may just...

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Categories: understands, fantasy, love, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman,
     she looks beyond the surface of
        ...

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Categories: understands, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things