lingers
...i call his name, flowing silk that slips away.
a faceless voice whispers on the breeze.
i embrace the sound, wave its bouquet like a wine,
and touch it with my tongue.
i clutch it in my hands lik...
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Categories:
elusiveness, missing, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Idyllic
...
The majestic sense of a hidden place lies in its elusiveness
where secrets and dreams are allowed to intertwine.
...
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Categories:
elusiveness, places,
Form: Rhyme
A STORY OF LOVE
...
Love is not blind but because of it’s unpredictability and it’s elusiveness
It can, at times, be a little difficult to see.
Other times, however, it is as palpable as can be
We can feel it in ou...
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Categories:
elusiveness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Impressions
...IMPRESSIONS
singular
radical
&contemporary
startling
subtle
&intense
pensive
solitary
inner existence
pictured
slightly askance
a radiance
blossoms
&appears
outstretched
betw...
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Categories:
elusiveness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Deception of Love
...The exaltation of my depression controlled my free will
Sensing the elusiveness of a thing called Love
feeling the high and the low of it
I expected the low to go away but it didn't
Only a ling...
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Categories:
elusiveness, family, love, old, people,
Form: Free verse
Satanology 6 Satan and Animals
...Bias has for animals better named Beasts:
Creatures that could us shake in strong seats
They are the ones Satan ably schemes their use
In battles real rather than a ruse…
And he had been chiefl...
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Categories:
elusiveness, animal, evil, fear, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Elves Elect Evasive Eva Eligible Electric Elk
...eleven engrossed esteemed Eastern elves elected Evie, eligible electric elk. Embracing her enthusiastic, energetically evasive elusiveness, enabling enchantment to engage, enhance and excite extra en...
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Categories:
elusiveness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Voiceless Eagerness
...I'm that my words and pen can't express my weakness.
Nobody could have foreseen I felt such happiness.
My bald secret is now included in my poetic liveness.
I'm at a loss for words...
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Categories:
elusiveness, allusion, appreciation, blessing, care,
Form: Monorhyme
Golden Leaves
...I've always loved Aspen's leaves of gold
Even though winter's what they foretold.
And maples' gold among the crisp red,
once fallen make the lovliest bed.
The green was nice and furnished us sh...
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Categories:
elusiveness, autumn, beauty, color, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Every Man Has a Dream
...Every Man Has a Dream
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Every man has a dream that he cannot quite touch...
a dream of contentment, of soft, starlit rain,
of a breeze in the evening that, rising ...
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Categories:
elusiveness, crush, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Seeking Black
...I found myself wanting to be angry and vile,
seeking black, looking hard for him
in all the dark places, lingering a while.
Black has his own ways, unknown to mortals-
slinking out and in mysteri...
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Categories:
elusiveness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Treasure of Rhyme
...With years of mind numbing digging
Persistence pays off with time
I would almost call it a living
This life long search for the treasure of rhyme
Harder to track than the abominable snowman
Sl...
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Categories:
elusiveness, poems,
Form: Rhyme
To Justice With Love
...TO JUSTICE WITH LOVE…
Your deceitful tease
and elusiveness
are beyond compare;
your blind promise
has yet proven
that you really care.
How long
must my soul
lowly hang
like strange frui...
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Categories:
elusiveness, analogy, betrayal, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
Unclear
...I had the chance to look into your eyes
In busy days, in busy nights
But all I know is uncertainty.
You got a smile that could mesmerize
You tell stories that are hard to believe
But all I know ...
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Categories:
elusiveness, for him, friend,
Form: Free verse
Elusiveness of Love
...What is this most elusive dream
Forever within my grasp,
Yet too illusive to see.
Whenever I persue it, it runs away
But when I end the chase,
It chases after me.
Why is it such a mystery.
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Categories:
elusiveness, absence, emotions, feelings, longing,
Form: I do not know?
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