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Descant Poems - Poems about Descant

Premium Member Planting Seeds
... leaves in trembling hues of bronze and gold, fall gently to the earth, where they’ll leave a carpet of crunching truths, blessings in beautiful ~ by poet walking in silence, on the......

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Categories: descant, autumn,
Form: Terza Rima
Dancing on the Edge of Desire's Ledge
... To wallow in the fires is a tempting surrender. A swan dive into the maelstromic implode of mushroom clouds, return to sender. If I let it take me into its vespered aqua......

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Categories: descant, art,
Form: Ballad



Substitution
...Eviscerate my being! Distort my face! Bring me closure to my ego; replace! Seizure in dark games through which we interlace, Beckoning the reaper's embrace. Subvert my empathy! Break me in......

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Categories: descant, creation, dark, desire, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Exuberant Light
...Exuberant Light Selfless rays spring from tonal anagrams Crystal daybreaks that never know twilight Released from the pure rhapsody “I Am” Innocent of intention, free of night, Nascent from i......

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Categories: descant, giving, god, life, light,
Form: Dizain
Covid the 3rd
...Now is the summer of our troppo paradise Made sullen winter by this pretty virus; And all the sun that shone upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with fun......

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Categories: descant, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Knights and Ladies
...Courtly days of knights so gallant, And demure damsels in distress; Hearken ye to this admiring descant, Of chivalry and sheer noblesse. Nights of satin and days of adventure, Of heroes and vi......

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Categories: descant, adventure, courage, goodbye, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Alternative Studies
...Outside the classroom Sun and cloud dapple the vale Thrush rehearses triple phrase The while overhead Lark ascends in descant stream Studies the Elysian scene 2 May 2019 Contest: Bite ......

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Categories: descant, nature,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Praise Ye the Lord- -
...Praise Ye The Lord- - Prominent divines intuit. Reformed divines in to it. Astronomical angels in heaven dance. Infected blood of sinful man descant. Starry......

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Categories: descant, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
When Azrael Comes Knocking
...When Azrael* comes knocking, it won’t be with bony fists, I believe, he’ll be a Doctor, with a cure, Or a Maiden with her posies, a Knight jousting in the lists, Or a gently whistling, mournful Tr......

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Categories: descant, angel, appreciation, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Zephyr
...She descended effortlessly fluttering her locks And blew her fragrance upon the Earth's living flocks, In her every phase, she prospered Turning the infested air fresh and relaxed, She carried pe......

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Categories: descant, destiny, journey, life, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Solo
...bleakness of Autumn on a cloudy-sunless day muted colors droop spirit’s s i l e n t interlude... …blush of solo-leaf descant 12/1/2017 descant - a melody or count......

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Categories: descant, autumn,
Form: Tanka
Threads
......inspired by 'August Rain' by Joseph Brodsky The afternoon dissolves to darkness, suddenly the downpour tumbles and the spouts regurgitate. Willows wilt and elm trees tremble, intertwine, ......

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Categories: descant, nature,
Form: Verse
Decriminalisation
...Flouncing flamenco style or doubling up for a pass a doublet is neither a right or a wrong in a semi colon in nightgowns. But trespassing on a land? Really? Who said? Hum. Huh. Disgusting. Go irrigat......

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Categories: descant, analogy, angel, art, august,
Form: I do not know?
Threads
......inspired by 'August Rain' by Joseph Brodsky The afternoon dissolves to darkness, suddenly the downpour tumbles and the spouts regurgitate. Willows wilt and elm trees tremble, intertwine, ......

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Categories: descant, weather,
Form: Verse
1950 To 51
...Life way back then when i was ten, From wartime days, to peace again. Few luxuries on ration books, Not even scraps for feeding ducks. But more important than our wealth, To tend ......

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Categories: descant, childhood, england,
Form: Couplet

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