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Delectation Poems - Poems about Delectation

Premium MemberCoast of Maine

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A QUIET RETREAT: PART ONE
I retreated to the edge of Maine, 
To a beachside estate where thoughts remain 
Unsettled, swirling with cloud and tide 
A love poem’s seed buried deep inside. 
A h...
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Categories: delectation, allegory,
Form: Couplet

Filched formerly anatomical slender man me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

...Filched formerly anatomical slender man - me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

Absolute zero escape
velocity gutted dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal a...
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Categories: delectation, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberthanks Santa

...Let's wax poetic - wax on..

We’re in for it
When we enter
the insubstantial country of love

That secret theater, in an invisible mansion of moods

it’s a resort that houses its share of...
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Categories: delectation, boyfriend, christmas, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Flannel Shirt

...You standing there looking so innocent
       and sexy, biting your lip
Smiling so guile-y and your hair
Cascading around your face
Over your shoulders and styled by JBF
You standing a bit awkwa...
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Categories: delectation, clothes, longing, sensual, sexy,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberI REMEMBER my yesteryears

...I REMEMBER (1)

Candles & nightlights
   flickering bright
blackout curtains
    shutting out light

Dripping setting
   from Sunday's roast
spread  thick
on Monday's toast

Paper chains
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Categories: delectation, art, childhood, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Memberpompons

...pimpernel on my thighs 
eloquence and delectation
conversations with the wise
reveal to me which death i must die.

lily in the valley
bravery passion and determination
whatever has to be done...
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Categories: delectation, 12th grade, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCLERIHEW ecphrasis XXIII

...Putting on the style at Grande Yatte*
'stipletized' by Georges Seurat
in pointillist perfection
on the eye a 'delectation'...
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Categories: delectation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Appeal to Poetry

...We enjoy reading poems from the past.
They describe those ages, their horrors.
Should we regret delectation as we suck in,
and smile at, repugnance, misery, sadness?

Should we repel such poems ...
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Categories: delectation, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHalcyon

...Written: October 3rd, 2023

"Man is graced as he loves, and love never fails. This river will lead life to its afar haven, where they can relish halcyon days and starry nights." By Poet...
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Categories: delectation, analogy, appreciation, beauty, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTuesday Memory

...three thirty, exact
the bell
        jangled
gathered my coat
foregoing
  the afterschool
match

tuesday
  my weekly treat
   awaited on gran's
baking tray

I opened
   the back door
a...
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Categories: delectation, food, nostalgia,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberTuesday Memory

...three thirty, exact
foregoing
  the afterschool
match

tuesday
  my weekly treat
   awaits on gran's
baking tray
arriving there
a spicy aroma
  fiiled the air
  it was freshly baked
my 
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Categories: delectation, food, memory,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberDidactic Delectation

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Adonai authors all,
anticipates all,
altruistically acts,
accomodating* acrimonious aliens,
allowing adoptive access.

Beloved bestows blessing,
begetting bliss,
birthing born-again...
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Categories: delectation, blessing,
Form: Abecedarian

Fire and Brimstone

...FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

Whitened collar, fixedly starched 
To the ultimate limits of self-perfection, 
Points righteous, crooked finger 
At an open-mouthed assembly, 
Crouching beneath thick-
Eyeb...
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Categories: delectation, abuse, addiction, corruption, hate,
Form: Free verse

Filched Physiognomy Mine Revisited

...Filched Physiognomy – Mine revisited!

Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordanc...
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Categories: delectation, absence, addiction, age, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThose Pair of Latent Eyes

...She has a pair of subtle eyes to brood in forlorn,
the vile tale of heart rending cacophonic dissolution.
Those eyes were meek, never crude
to yearn the ties of proximity longed! 
Those meek ador...
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Categories: delectation, care, conflict, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse

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