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Best Xanthous Poems

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Xanthous Yellow (Sapphic Stanza)
I fell in love amid the xanthous yellow
as clarions of daffodils awaken
in the gently warming winds of April's song
to the springtime air.

As soft as the...

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Categories: xanthous, love
Form: Sapphic stanza



Premium Member Mona Lisa's Paramour
A period of youthful vim ferments
as coruscating golden flecks in eyes 
that mesmerise and tantalise, give rise
to secrets in my breast to stir, foment.
The xanthous...

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Categories: xanthous, art, love, valentines day,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Starlit Destinies
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."  
E.E. Cummings

Amber hues kissed twilight's platinum pigments that...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: xanthous, absence, lost love, romantic
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Puddle of Petals
Dedicated to Evelyn Judy Buehler. I love the joy
and color she brings to her poetry!


Pink puddle of petals, precious
underneath the parasol tree.

Celebrant-pear in bridal white...

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Categories: xanthous, garden, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In Quietness Divine
in quietness divine
   the xanthous zephyr balm
      a citrusy ascent
        ...

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Categories: xanthous, nature, seasons,
Form: Monchielle Stanza



Premium Member Dilly-Dilly Daffodils
Then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.

—-William Wordsworth

DILLY-DILLY DAFFODILS

Dilly-dilly daffodils in a lady’s tress,
Sailing as she throws off distress.
Blithesome in shades...

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Categories: xanthous, flower,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Renoirs Redfox
RENOIR’S REDFOX

Fall’s raven-black hat
highlights her redfox-wool locks —
the xanthous sun leaps
from the buttery bouquet
twinkling in the atmosphere

10/29/2019...

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Categories: xanthous, art, imagery,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Sacre Coeur Wings
Rendered faceless by the artist, she appeals to the masses. This angel takes up the canvas. Her identity of she is given by the poet....

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Categories: xanthous, angel, art, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Land of Summertime
Land of Summertime

Maroon Mums lay among white vast cushions.
So proud are Heathers far above Queen Buttons.
See hazy Coxcombs brush the Willy Willows while
Dandelions are resting...

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Categories: xanthous, flower, giggle, meaningful, summer,
Form: Narrative
' Party Under the Square Moon '

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Crepuscle beamed, descried at the telluric cyan orb
Dusk devoured auric daystar as lambency was absorbed
Sun's verve, twinkle immersed by the lil' murk
Permeate the newfangled burst...

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Categories: xanthous, art, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
A Spring Abecedarian
 abecedarian 

An arch's lowest stone from which it springs is a springer
Bounce in one’s step common to infatuation
Cricket term – one of a set...

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Categories: xanthous, adventure, daffodils, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
To a Lover
Xanthous vipers crumble and
Copulate on pallid bursts
Of violent ash and vapid sand
Drunken blows to swollen bones
Macabre and salty, bitter and grand

While wolven maws abuse brash...

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Categories: xanthous, art, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts Uric and Urinary, Or: Does She of a Morning Stand Before Some Wicked Ablutionary Sink
As I stood before the porcelaneous basin,
And streamed into its already uric and xanthous-stained depths,
A stain, a sight and a liquid yet yellower and more...

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Categories: xanthous, allegory, anger, angst, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Sights and Whispers Unite
Within my breast  a  promise  of  earth   splendor  

 Jovial  sapphire   lake  sheer ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: xanthous, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme
Footsteps To Ruin
Footsteps to Ruin
This spring makes my heart beat faster
went for a walk saw a verdant field sprinkled 
with xanthous flowers nodding 
in the mild zephyr
...

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Categories: xanthous, betrayal, birthday, kiss,
Form: Curtal Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs