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Dressing Table Poems - Poems about Dressing Table

Premium Member A stream of consciousness about slippers and tea maybe
...Scooter in hand and not quite picking up my heels through the smulchy (not a word) leaves I'm just thinking about a room of my own (an actual one, although the book I have unfinished next to my be......

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Categories: dressing table, anxiety,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Jacqueline Trestrail
...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best......

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Categories: dressing table, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Visitor
...The woman sits silently on the edge of the bed A thin shaft of afternoon sun from a tear in faded curtains slices the murky room, landing on the man's damp body half-covered with draggled she......

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Categories: dressing table, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Unveilings
...It was not I that unveiled her beauty. The model waiting to enter a camera lens fusses over a shoulder strap and steps out. Did I see a veil fall? The crying girl beneath was erased in an insta......

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Categories: dressing table, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'the Prince'
...A fierce wind howls, and dark clouds race across the horizon, and beneath a hood draped over his face, a man whispers; of a vast land with wild waters, of streaking sunrises and sunsets, ......

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Categories: dressing table, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Maternal Grandmother
...“Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.” – Helen Ketchum You passed away many years ago several decades befo......

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Categories: dressing table, grandmother, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Touches of Femininity
...Touches Of Femininity. Strips of daylight Emanate through blinds onto wooden floor Wrinkled sheets and crumpled pillows from the night before The perfume of two bodies after sleep lingers in t......

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Categories: dressing table, beautiful, beauty, feelings, relationship,
Form: Verse
How Many Enjoy Reunion When the Moon Is Bright
...Into the sea spring tides of the river flow, Out of sea tides does the rising moon glow. Glittering waves roll on thousands of miles, All rivers are robed by lunar beams in piles. The river twi......

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Categories: dressing table, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Detritus
...Detritus Sitting there, honey, Cleansed and bathed, Scented with lilac and rose, Glistening at your dressing table, and Eyeing yourself in the chrome mirror; I, as your guest, sit by and wat......

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Categories: dressing table, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'prince of Time'
...A fierce wind howls, and dark clouds race across the horizon, and beneath a hood draped over his face, a man whispers; of a vast land with wild waters, of streaking sunrises and sunsets, ......

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Categories: dressing table, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ''The Prince of Time''
...A fierce wind howls, and dark clouds race across the horizon, and beneath a hood draped over his face, a man whispers; of a vast land with wild waters, of streaking sunrises and sunsets, ......

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Categories: dressing table, love,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye
...She's making love to him as though he'll pay her with love he would have given her in the lost years. She's baking a fruit cake she saw in a cookery book. It's the best she's ever made. She kn......

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Categories: dressing table, break up, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Destiny and Beyond
... A fierce wind howls as dark clouds race across the horizon, and beneath the hood draped over his face the man thinks; of a vast land with wild clear waters, of streaking sunrises and s......

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Categories: dressing table, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Prince of Time
... A fierce wind howls as dark clouds race across the horizon, and beneath the hood draped over his face the man whispers; Of a vast land with wild clear waters, of streaking sunrises and s......

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Categories: dressing table, fantasy, love, mystery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Door Is Open
... A wooden carving of a regal and grand horse stands, outside to greet and usher customers into the dim. The windows are a cluttered chaos of assorted things, all beckoning and charmi......

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Categories: dressing table, nostalgia,
Form: Verse

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