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Distantly Poems - Poems about Distantly

Premium Member In Your Easter Bonnet
...She, in her Easter bonnet Standing beneath the shade, Alongside gentlemen in top hats To view an Easter parade Church bells ring distantly Showy, white lilies sway, Waving to sweet daffodils ......

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Categories: distantly, candy, celebration, clothes, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Heavenly Body - Mar 18-24
...I’ve seen it, late those myriad afternoons— A twilight blush, first waiting patiently to welcome back your scintillating beauty, next succumbing to your mild midnight swoons; Your sapphire eyes......

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Categories: distantly, crush, heart, longing, love,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Hermann Hesse Translation of 'Stages' from 'The Glass Bead Game'
...This is my modern English translation of the poem "Stages" by the great German poet Hermann Hesse from his novel "The Glass Bead Game." "Stages" or "Steps" by Hermann Hesse from his novel The ......

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Categories: distantly, courage, death, flower, life,
Form: Rhyme
Blacklight
... I can see the black light burn run in time to the rage of the rhythm of ages, all is covered in neon dreams suicidal screams, my pain, n rage are my own. I feel it like black light in my e......

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Categories: distantly, analogy, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
...BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE Gone are the fishers pulling Lugs; the Gull its gizzard rusty hooked; and barbed, limit its shelled Limpet supply as blown sand creeps; smart gulls dunk and d......

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Categories: distantly, beach, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Layers of Life
...Walking through the door of my childhood home brought back tsunami of wisdom overture. Tastes and colours in décor change with culture; varied pallet of history in lands roam’. My children had ......

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Categories: distantly, life, remember,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member If only you knew
...On the eve of that somber, stormy night, I began to see strings of spring swirling soundlessly along the thread-thin blade of this culinary cutlery. Why does gravity lay on thick in this silver st......

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Categories: distantly, anger, angst, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sorrow of the Skies
...The Sorrow of the Skies The sun and the moon were once great lovers In ancient days gone by. The clouds formed from their sorrow, and the rain, when they would cry. For this pitiable couple we......

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Categories: distantly, break up, moon, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Findings
...Your bones are scattered in a boggy field - it happens all the time. Time is your pocket handkerchief, your shattered wristwatch, your best evening pants, all reduced to insect dust. Hundre......

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Categories: distantly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Steal The World
... allow me to steal the world instead of giving it away, I lye here on distantly dry stones and not within your feathers ......

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Categories: distantly, angst, anxiety, conflict, life,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Bells
... Multitudinous bells secern the tones as may resound sharp bamboo xylophones. Pulchritudinous bells have rhythmic ding, others that linger with tedious ring. Some little bells can echo a jin......

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Categories: distantly, celebration, christmas, funeral, music,
Form: Couplet
For the Birds, What In the Flock
...Yardbirds are hopefully smug cockfully strutting, cutting a rug? Parked car birds are vigilant vigilantes? No, they're nust enjoying a juicy bug? Dejour, ......

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Categories: distantly, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member California Girl Complaints
...Only snows up there in the mountains, distantly horizon's mirage Hypothetically we could drive all the way there but gas costs too much So they just sit there like un-touchable artwork be......

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Categories: distantly, beautiful, environment, longing, mountains,
Form: Haiku
Song of the Rock
...Upon this rock, was my fate etched By the hands of Akooke Olemo. I lingered on her laps like mummy’s boy, Though my own blood at me, distantly beckoned. Her Martian hand nurtured and nourished m......

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Categories: distantly, emotions, goodbye, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacred Vestments
...Rebuilding bipartisan explorations, at least two-sided appositions, like generously inclusive and conservatively exclusive worldviews of MotherEarth Sacred polytheistic strains and peak exper......

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Categories: distantly, happiness, health, integrity, introspection,
Form: Political Verse

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