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Best Yen Poems

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Premium Member Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
Youth

When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as...

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Categories: yen, age, death, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



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Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: yen, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Way Back Then
Way back then when I was two,
I couldn't even tie my shoe.
But I could stand up on a chair
to retrieve my teddy bear.

Way back then...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yen, humor, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jersey Maid
Bright blonde-haired girl
competitive
From the start, made a nine
Mile ride
With a spirited heart, straight
to the 
Summit of Telegraph Hill, I’ll
guess
She freewheeled back ‘just for
the thrill’

A gifted...

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Categories: yen, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Witch and the Womanizer
It seems head witch Della,
Had a yen for a fella,
Who considered himself a catch.

He thought to woo her,
And then to just lose her,
But in Della...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yen, halloween,
Form: Rhyme



Bored Billy Benny
Mr. Billy Benny sits, staring at a knife..
As bored as bored can be, in his very boring life.

He dipped a pen in tea - and...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yen, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Crazy People
Crazy People

The signal they need to be on the same 
channel as you, is being interrupted, by voices or
wave signals connected to a different power...

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Categories: yen, crazy, introspection, people, poems,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Witch and the Womanizer
It seems head witch Della,
Had a yen for a fella,
Who considered himself a catch.

He thought to woo her,
And then just to lose her,
But in Della...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yen, funny love, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Ronin
Dishonorable Tao pen,
your fealty strokes 
are guided by 
shogun lust for the yen

Quill treachery 
blot your avarice ambition
Devious calligraphy
be the torn loyalty decision

Vain kimono pride
is...

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Categories: yen, allegory, imagery, perspective, words,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Skelton Bones
Down in the crypt where the caskets lie
And dust stirs up when trucks go by
Giggling sounds, not moans and groans
From the tomb of Skelton Bones

When...

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Categories: yen, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
World-Saving Breath
Jesus Christ suffered, counted all as loss, 
His life, He offered on Calvary's Cross, 

Echoes of His pain reverberate round, 
The Lamb of God slain...

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Categories: yen, bible, cry, jesus, words,
Form: Couplet
Discreet
One day I must be discreet
If perchance we should meet
I'd be humbled at your feet
And oh how very sweet...
I don't know if or when
All I...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yen, adventure, angst, love, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Momentary Mistress.
We touched for a moment
From across the room
Eternity silenced
Discrete
As only eyes allow

Paralyzed here
Standing in yen
Yearning
And somehow fearful
I turn away

If I held valiance 
Crass and fiery
I...

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Categories: yen, imagination, introspection, loss, people,
Form: Personification
Appalachian Dawn
I have a passion to hold a lamp aloft,
to capture one acre of starshine
before the sun writes a new dawn.

Rusting Chevys bloom in the half-light.
Nightjars...

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Categories: yen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love
I love YooHoo,
I love wine,
I love your love,
It is devine...

Some hidden god,
Brought us together,
Once more again,
Satisfying,
A long lived yen...

Sweet is sweet,
And love is love,
The day...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yen, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, life,
Form: Bio

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