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Best Vellum Poems

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Premium Member Vellum of Silent Words
I wrote this letter
today 
knowing you’d never see it.
I wrote so carefully,
as if I thought you could reflect 
on my words and carefully fold them...

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Categories: vellum, emotions, feelings, grief, how
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Embroidery of Vellum
EMBROIDERY OF VELLUM

A clean poem composed
Thee vellum virgin
Lace betrothed in length
Your satin train embraced

Thee embroidery in apple gold
Girdled in silver refined
And curvature of silhouette
Delicate with...

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Categories: vellum, beauty, words,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Avante-Garde of Vellum and Ink
THE AVANTE-GARDE OF VELLUM AND INK 

The avante-garde of vellum and ink, like Cupid’s bow and arrow,
Carte blanche to choose the muse we love -...

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Categories: vellum, writing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mirror of a Son's Eyes
He 
has certainly 
perfected the art 
of being a smart a** -
a trait that swims like a tadpole 
in his father’s gene pool
and nurtured by...

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Categories: vellum, art, feelings, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
My Library
My neck crooked backward,
I stand between the stacks
feeling the weight of centuries, 
the distilled wisdom of minds
who graced the earth with golden words,
words that pace...

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Categories: vellum, books, words, writing, universe,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Great Forgotten Language
"The Great Forgotten Language" 

In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds

strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing 
of a known self

some run away
spooked as if 
the bare reflection...

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Categories: vellum, humanity, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Whispers the Feather
WTF burning bright with pondering ink.
Graceful swans or blackbirds skedaddling
across the vast and empty space. The think
kerplunking into cavernous link.
The quill flying…descriptives diving
onto the writer’s...

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Categories: vellum, angst, birth, death, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lucidity
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. ~ Eric Hoffer

And...

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Categories: vellum, meaningful, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Fate On the Feathers
When I met you in the language of lonely war
three feathers fastened to your breast breathing sore
many graves of gentlemen knew your score and the...

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Categories: vellum, dark, gothic, i love
Form: Epic
As Canvas Weeps
Unblemished vellum
Begs the Imagist's pardon:
Forsake not my skin -
Complete my chaste nakedness
With threads of dappled spectra...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vellum, art
Form: Tanka
Erase the Tempest?
Ink quills and vellum
     Sensitivities on rags
           The bard's monument







For Mr....

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vellum, passion
Form: Haiku
Compassionate Computer Guy To His Love
Come chat with me and be my special friend
And we will all the internet explore
The blogs, the webs, the hours we’ll spend
We’ll hack and open...

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Categories: vellum, parody
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Black Ships Sail
O muse ... the lauded poet Homer called

to Odysseys 'cross time enthralled 

please tell the tale of warriors lost

of Troy's fall, of heart and of...

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Categories: vellum, absence,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Mists of Goodbye
Gray clouds gathering, distant eyes shrouded;
inner vellum lids cannot disguise
the fugitive from love you are.
Your cherished, throbbing body near,
Far, far away your misplaced mind;
Hesitant words...

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Categories: vellum, goodbye, love,
Form: Free verse
In Praise of Rhyming Words
A  golden  pen  of  silken  quotes  that  rhyme .

A quill  in  ink  on  dusty...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vellum, poetry, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things