Best Vase Poems

The tulips in the vase, 
   a clan of lassies fair.
      Their buds they hold the gold, 
   the pollen of their youth 
and promise sunrise told,

      the tulips in the...

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Vase Dream - c'est la vie 

White vase with no design
Dangling there - c'est la vie 
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything
In an apartment rising skyward
Lingering on the edge of ledge
Standing tall atop a railing raw
Languishing over the 20th Floor
Or there about
And more...

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A broken heart
Is like a cracked vase
Affection can't stay
Love left without a trace

Hurt runs deep
It needs healing & space
But true love prevails!
So powerful, you embrace



Inspired by the  McWhirtle contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina

11/15/19...

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You chose me.
Picked me up 
this delicate shadow thin glass vessel
in some antique store by the Asian docks.
Paid for me with peacock feathers and a slice of the star I still see from my window.
Gift wrapped in a shoe box
filled with foreign headlines steaming newspaper...

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Bulbous, flat, keel-like ridge, and in other shapes I see you,
Curved or carved; you shine painted in red, green, purple, or blue;
As the rainbow is placed splendidly on bone china clay,
With many musing and mourning moments, you swing and sway...!

Roses, lilies, tulips, jasmines... dancing in...

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Life
Life is often
Like a shattered vase
On the tile floor

Scattered fragments
With jagged edges
Clinging to the floor 
In a puddle of water

All it takes is one nudge
One careless bump
One poor choice
Sends it spiraling down

Scrambling to fix it 
Fingers brushing glass
Pain erupting along your hand
Glowing red-hot pain

You wish...

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the leaves are flotsam
b’low water level -
roses aspire
...

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Very pretty roses
                  Valentine's precious gift,
                      ...

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Four pieces
Three shards fit together, the other
Gone
Useless urn
Helpless as tears
Drain through, blood
Flows out
Without
Stop
But then
Blood clots
Miracle!
Torrent to river to trickle until
The hole holds
Souls full, but
The vase remains
Forever broken
Never whole
Or full
again...

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An empty vase on the counter, 
reminds you of the beautiful lilies that bloomed one summer... 
Time quickly passed and the petals began to wilt and fall.. 
They withered away but their beauty was the greatest gift of all. 
To have them and appreciate them...

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Broken Vase


The flea market
Vibrant and full of trinkets
Meandering and browsing
Dreaming and wandering
Wishing I was with my man

There it was all alone in a stall
A vase with love imprinted on the side
So pretty, I could not resist
So content with my purchase
Off I went with my sunshine...

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An Old Copper Vase – A Second View

an old copper vase
a witness of age
saw a lot
during times—
but all new to me.

the grace of the
experienced one
shall share it
with everybody
who is 
willing to listen.

so
the old
and
the new
are
coming together
in a 
new-found way
never expected
to find everything
that is needed
on their
individual path.

grace...

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You will never know how it felt that day
When you finally chipped the last piece away
The final blow, when I had nothing left to give
You took it all and laughed away the years 
No respect for those I held dear
The words of love you uttered...

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sea-urchins in rock pools –  
the flesh, a delicacy – 
sparkle – 
protected from the ocean
where anemones proliferate – 
by a mist-glistening  
heart shaped rock:
the keeper of my secrets – 

a cache of memories 
of mornings snorkelling
surface
eddy on the periphery 
—homesick for my...

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After this hot summer days,
I saw every bird on their ways,
To find a roof upon their heads,
Shortly, each bird will be seen on every window,
And enjoying the drops as television premier!

Along this pleasurable cloudburst,
There also comes the cool breeze,
This makes the tree bow through wind,
I...

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