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Best Wreath Poems

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Premium Member Memory Wreath
Each year before Christmases of the past
   Past visitors came to trim my holiday tree
Tree with ornaments homemade to last
   Lasting,...

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Categories: wreath, happiness, holiday
Form: Quatrain



Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: wreath, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Like a Tree In the Desert
Prick me with your vivid green awareness
Let the white pins that needle me
Diminish into their foggy sham

The bridal wreath that scented our commitment
Now doused in...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wreath, absence, anger, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sun That Parts the Clouds
Through frayed seams a rosy dream bleeds 
needled and re-stitched 
with threads of time and love and hope..

and still — a rosy dream bleeds 
the...

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Categories: wreath, age, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marking Time
daylight hours 
Ozzie and Ben at the picnic table
milkweeds dance across the board
chess match underway all day, every day

many stories shared, some repeated; neither cared...

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Categories: wreath, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Heart of Christmas -Edited
Tinsel sparkling on trees that toys lie beneath,
Holly with berries and the hanging of the wreath.
Everything is red and ever-green.

Hearth and home are comforting;
Evening is...

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Categories: wreath, christmas,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Universal Holidays
Never had a Christmas tree
  or some mistletoe
No wreath of holly on my door
  just a mezuzah there, you know

No stockings stuffed with...

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Categories: wreath, appreciation, chanukah, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blessed Outcomes
Decades of mystic dreamers have worn the path
trod across the leys, coupling pairs within Stonehenge.
Beneath the Wiltshire skies cornflower blue; they lust,
lotus-eaters, loose-limbed, seeking a...

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Categories: wreath, desire, devotion, love, mythology,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Classical Incantation
................ 

As if the sunlight breaks the day
And dawn arrives with a whispered breath
Ascending like a clarinet        ...

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Categories: wreath, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be the Clown
Be the clown,go on, turn the world upside down.
Be the one, who never thinks deeply or on humanity frowns.

Be above it all, hide your heart...

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Categories: wreath, introspection, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Doors
I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an...

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Categories: wreath, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member In the Oak-Heath Forest
In oak-heath forest you might be
one wonderful spring day.
Go search for heath beneath a tree.
Perhaps small faeries you will see
and other wee folk there at...

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Categories: wreath, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Haiku
geese migrating south
heading for warmer climates ~
honk and hink farewell 

white frost at daybreak 
sparkles as the sun rises ~
warm breath creates fog

an ice blizzard...

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Categories: wreath, grave, snow, storm, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Running Scar
Here lies a grave,
a conglomerate headstone
without a name.
weeds and cobwebs 
wrapped tight around the heartless edge.
Caretaker rides his rusty deer
pretending he's a nascar stud
waking the...

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Categories: wreath, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For Mothers Who Have Passed
For Mothers Who Have Passed 

For mothers who've been passed some years,
you may have gone but love remains.
At fewer times do we shed tears
for mothers...

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Categories: wreath, mothers day,
Form: Triolet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things