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Best Untethered Poems

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Premium Member Untethered
Salt tears drip from leaves, 
to land on tea-colored pages.
Hopes and dreams, 
written in the ink of history,
slowly blur and drip 
into the underworld of...

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Categories: untethered, memory, perspective, sad, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: untethered, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Leaf That Falls
Inspired by "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a leaf that falls,
unmourned, to the distant ground
I paused when I...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untethered, appreciation, autumn, beauty, dance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Prince of Purple
Beneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untethered, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
This Is My Anxiety
Falling asleep to illogical thoughts.
Seeing red or nothing but spots.
Heart racing toward the finish line.
Can't seem to catch that breath of mine.
A whooshing roar inside...

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Categories: untethered, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme



The Unbroken Mare
In ghostly dreams the horse will come
And feed on my forbidden cereal
Meant for my recalcitrant healing
That filly came a-prancing stealing

O shrouded mare so misted white
Thou...

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Categories: untethered, horse, hurt, psychological,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Rainbow Needs a New Name
The rainbow needs a new name. 
What it should be I don’t know.
Its name before Babel surely a song.
Shimmering, glistening, magical thing!
Outlandishly colored, and elusive....

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untethered, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Appreciation
"The deepest longing in the human heart is the desire for appreciation."--William James

A halo of treetops rings the cyan river,
as it trips and rolls down...

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Categories: untethered, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to...

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Categories: untethered, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Dream Sweeper
I’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untethered, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Because . . . I Can
Either side of the bed is mine
at my whim
and
Fancy

Coffee cups left in the sink
until there are
no
more
Clean

vacuum in the middle of the
floor
for a Week

remote - Mine
precisely.where.I.left.it.

Stink
of...

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Categories: untethered, angst, happiness, love, space,
Form: Free verse
When Your Eyes Meet Mine
I often wonder ~ ~ 

What would you think if only you knew
my heart flutters at the thought of kissing you.

I get lost in wishful...

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Categories: untethered, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nature Is Everything
Wild
pristine
and untamed,
Nature feels free
untethered to time
or the presence of man.
She's a part of everything
half creator, half destroyer
She is the architect of all life
all its beauty...

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Categories: untethered, beautiful, beauty, feelings, image,
Form: Etheree
O, To Be a Cloud
O, to be a cloud and wander the skies untethered,
freer than any bird, as free as the wild winds,
changing shape endlessly, effortlessly, easing
from a stallion...

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Categories: untethered, appreciation, beauty, childhood, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Late I Feel Lost
Of late I feel lost 
untethered and tossed 
like a ship left dead on the sea.
But no need to worry 
for I'm in no hurry...

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Categories: untethered, loneliness, lost, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

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