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Best Wilde Poems

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Dreaming
Will poems to my dull senses rise,
     In plainer garb, or apt disguise?
Can turn of phrase else serve an end,
 ...

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Categories: wilde, humor, humorous, poets,
Form: Couplet



Exerpts From Hitler's Diary 1941
EXERPTS   FROM   HITLER’S   DIARY   1941

"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to...

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Categories: wilde, funnywar, crazy, june, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Gutters and Stars
The fall to the abyss is incendiary by design,
  Burning out and plummeting toward
The bottom of a fjord or the shaft of a mine,
...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wilde, faith, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Incarnate

Angels are unable to handle 
these 'Sylvia Plath' sorrows,
hiding their halos -
mute to my concerns.

Love has abandoned me,
left me to decay in an open grave,
where...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wilde, angst, dark, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the Happiness Come and Go -
It is the glittery eyes of your
          that cause my heart to find nourishment

  ...

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Categories: wilde, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member The Diary of a Tobacco Chewer-W
“I never travel without my diary,
One should have something sensational to read”

5-4-11: I never knew about the above quote of Wilde
But an event in life...

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Categories: wilde, cancer, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Entries From My Diary
"I never travel without my diary - One should have something sensational to read"
...Oscar Wilde, 1891

30 May 48:  I graduated from high school today...

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Categories: wilde, funnyschool, family, family, may,
Form: Couplet
The Gift
Deep in the wilde of the Cypress mound on the lower Graburn run
The air is cool and clear by far for the eye of the...

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Categories: wilde, horse, humor, humorous, summer,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Oliver, a Boy
My mother's name was Seraphine
A sadder child was never seen 
Her duty was to serve the table
Of newly widowed Mrs. Grable

Her husband Mr. Grable died
To...

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Categories: wilde, england, fantasy, innocence,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Life With Trump Xvii
The Donald supporters were pissed
But Dorian Gray they have kissed!
Measured in fathoms
Their brains’ empty chasms
All hail the chief narcissist


Author's Note: Sunshine Smile's recent post, "Showtime,"...

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Categories: wilde, allegory, anger, perspective, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Just Forget Me
Just forget me,
and walk away,
It wasn't meant to be,
So why try to stay.

Don't look at me,
When you walk by,
You don't want to see,
If I start...

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Categories: wilde, heartbroken, lost love, moving
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Day of the Quote Wars
IN HONOR OF THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALL
My Friend John 

The Day (of the Quote Wars)

The Day was gray with wisps of smoke, like...

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Categories: wilde, allegory, funny, imagery, words,
Form: Ballad
Book of Rhyme and Reason
"I never travel without my diary, one should always have
     something sensational to read.......Oscar Wilde, 1891


     ...

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Categories: wilde, on writing and words
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Keola - Terza Rima
Quote by Oscar Wilde

What plagues you so, fourth season of the year?
You seem compelled to bluster, snow, and hail;
how bleak to find you so devoid...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wilde, seasons, snow, spring, winter,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,  
for tonight we revel...

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Categories: wilde, dance, daughter, moon, mother
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things