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Best Wist Poems

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Premium Member Exegesis
"Exegesis"



At 7 he was 
thrown to the wolves

Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets 
kept in the abbey

he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod

First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with...

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Categories: wist, father daughter, love, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love Lull Into Weightlessness
Beautiful picturesque soft glowing light 
against the darkness, whilst burning shooting
star catapult through the sky in its flight. 
Spinning fine idyllic thread flow, moving.

In mine...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wist, dream, love, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Kiss of Sunshine
The world that once was slumbering
Beneath the quilt of Winter's snow
Is now set free to gladly see
The rays of golden sunlight

He peeks at first so...

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Categories: wist, miracle, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Tranquil Dreams of Sorrow Love Like There Is No Tomorrow
In the midst of midnight twilight
			
Silence   gently fades in a cascade

Warm wist embrace  of a blazing sun

Tension burst in  darken moment...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wist, analogy, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Feeling His Rhapsody
It was like listening to the music of
Rhapsody in Blue, 
the striking of the piano keys
and vibration of wind instruments. 
The faster the music got
his...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wist, anger, love,
Form: Free verse



I Just Saw
Bailey's an marmalade whisk my eye glare
Smiles of a man marry and skill inner fairy
Frawn stance, a lore france, erewhile recite
Like memory life afore him...

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Categories: wist, lost love,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Craggy Hills
Upon these craggy hills, I sit and in wonderment, I stare 
Gods beauty is reflected everywhere 
thundering surf crashing below
It's Thomas Hardy's world we know

The...

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Categories: wist, adventure, birthday, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
I Tried To Tie
I  tried to tie, I said, I said,
some rocks to billowed clouds.
In this I was a fool, a chump!
For rocks, as is both well...

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Categories: wist, parody,
Form: Free verse
November
October now is on its way;
November mists are here to stay.
With mornings dark and damp and drear
The wintry blast is ever near.
	Welcome to November.

A mournful...

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© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wist, autumn, nature, november,
Form: Rhyme
War of Lilies and of Roses (On the Rape of Lucrece)
WAR OF LILIES AND OF ROSES

Lilies white, blushing with red roses sweet
A lily-rose fair, unstained, Rome's virtuous Lucrece
Of beauty so strong, even in desire, men...

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© Craig Leaf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wist, death, history, loss, passion,
Form: Epic
Transition
We are travellers on this terrestial plane
where acorns are consumed in tinder season 
oaks fell by angry hurricane 
robust iroko mowed by lumbers greedy saw...

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Categories: wist, death, life, sad, light,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member September's Star
*Image of Outer Space by EIR.

September's Star

   Vespers of the North Star,
           ...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wist, september, star,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Truckers
There is something about eighteen wheelers,
For most of us can only wonder.
A trucker is respected to the up most,
From the east to west coast.
Oh demand...

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Categories: wist, business, love, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Incubus
A raw communion wafer in my hand
A hard wind melting the castles of sand

There is an anger roaring through us
A surf thrashing on the rocky...

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Categories: wist, warchildren,
Form: Verse
De View
The view
How you see the world bubby,
 depending on your age,
naive as the sunshine,
then you turn another page,
the cynic type is coming,
have another beer,
someone bloody...

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Categories: wist, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

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