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Best Unpretentious Poems

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Unpretentious Poetess
Unpretentious poetess,
refreshing inspiration
Brings me hope so I can cope;
graceful liberation.
To admire and aspire
to word my very own
without a care, evolving flare;
flaws I've overthrown.
For doubts have...

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Categories: unpretentious, humanity, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Kind Hello
Proverb 12:25  "Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up."


a stray lost
in her thoughts

i saw her
sitting there
nursing a frown

so i
reached...

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Categories: unpretentious, cheer up, lonely, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cosmic Dreams
Be it evidence consequence or coincidence
Every night as I succumb to somnolence

Heavenly smoke rings of frankincense
Rise upwards with sweet opulence

Dulcet dreams inevitably commence
Without fanfare hype...

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Categories: unpretentious, dream, fantasy, night, sleep,
Form: Monorhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh,...

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Categories: unpretentious, adventure, confusion, courage, heart,
Form: Epic
Street Flower
When the orange edge of the sun rises 
above silver tint hues of an endless horizon
I sway with silent elegance in the meadow of your...

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Categories: unpretentious, beautiful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



I Never Fell In Love
Falling in love is easy or so I've heard it said
Don't know up from down, it's crazy in your head
All you need is vision of...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unpretentious, adventure, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Welcome To My Avatar
I held the calligraphy brush and 
Practiced the movement for hours and hours
Somewhere betwixt art and dance
It was meant to look as effortless as a...

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Categories: unpretentious, creation, freedom, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strawberries and Cream
S	imple delight!
T	asty, smooth and luxurious
R	ipened red berries, bursting with flavor	
A	lways appetizing, a taste bud teaser
W	ild or store-bought, berries fresh, tart!
B	eyond dreamy, out of this world
E	legant...

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Categories: unpretentious, food
Form: Acrostic
The Voyage of Life--Youth
Ruffling gold blooms and leaves, hue dimmed by time
A gilded frame holding a slice of life’s history
I’m drawn into the younger man, the vision sublime
Sailing...

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Categories: unpretentious, art, journey, youth, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
A Portrait
~A Portrait ~

A mother feels that her life resembles
 to an unpretentious painting 
hanging on the wall in her residency,
it projects nothing except 
emptiness,stagnant,old,
no ocean...

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Categories: unpretentious, devotion, emotions, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fertile Crescent, Iii
Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience

The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed

Where early mans' dawn is, 
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me...

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unpretentious, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
The High-Tech Birthday of My Niece-Thru Video Conference
A really a lovely way to celebrate, the Most
Dear one’s birthday, in a high-tech mode, sure
Thanks to the modern technology in IT field
That enabled all...

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Categories: unpretentious, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Color of Butter
While closing my eyes, I return once again
to an image that nestles at the foot of the mountains
Snow crowns San Jacinto as it shadows the...

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Categories: unpretentious, child, childhood, home, house,
Form: Free verse
The Debate
A Debate

The Atheist
I see no reason for a god
Indeed for any type of god at all
I look around at all the churchmen
The pompous richly dressed...

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Categories: unpretentious, philosophy, god, god, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loner's First Wish
I weaved us together by day
In my lonely room, marveled
At your features, your Pa's sole present,
Memorized the curve of tulips,
Unraveled your bold walk
Having accepted the...

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Categories: unpretentious, baby, beauty, best friend,
Form: Bio

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