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Grained Poems - Poems about Grained

Love Will Forgive Again

...Caught in the in between
So cold there now
This time the pain rains down
So lonely now
So scared of what may never come
In a trance blinded by all I fear
How do I grow out side the datk
How do...
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Categories: grained, dark, fear, history, how
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWide Eyed Saunter Part Two

...There’s a burning yen nomadic deep within entrenched,
to absorb fresh environments ambrosial on foot,
where incidental hue or august colour wash abound,
or that March bloom tantalising shady patch...
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Categories: grained, celebration, character, color, deep,
Form: Haibun



Premium MemberWide Eyed Saunter

...There is an urge within me to wander randomly,
to explore in vivid detail each kaleidoscope,
incidental hue or pristine colour I encounter,
or just as likely that tantalising shady patch,
with it...
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Categories: grained, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberENGRAVISTA durer goya

...ENGRAVISTA 
en relief
 intaglio planar
grounded
  spur-like aquinted
grained
 messaging
of defined
    contour
       en register
meshed
  toothed
       burnished
         etched
dry p...
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Categories: grained, art,
Form: Didactic

On the Porch

...I pictured a yard with flowers wild 
I pictured a dog amongst the reeds 
I pictured a tree swing and a child 
I pictured a pond with swimming geese

I pictured a mountain as my view
I pictured ...
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Categories: grained, appreciation, blessing, destiny, i
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberBruising Words

...Words too often have rough edges,
bloody histories,
lines more defined
than relentlessly imaged cliffs,
worshipping sacred sunlight shades
of high hazards

Coveted risks
more than needed oppo...
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Categories: grained, health, integrity, language, nature,
Form: Political Verse

He's Not Worth It

...the common stone is useful 
though others seem to mock
praising up their special gems
not solid as a rock

there we have the flowers
for everybody's needs
though holding all together
is solid...
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Categories: grained, words,
Form: Rhyme

Vietnam Sniper

...VietNam Sniper



It seems that the night lingers then departs clawing
for one more minute, but in a vain attempt to defeat the sun.
The encumbered fog groans and gently rises from 
The ground...
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Categories: grained, military, war,
Form: Prose

Lessons Too Late For Learning

...Standing on the shore
 waves lapping at the sands of the past 
beaten down and grained in time
 between the foam and the surf;
an image forms,
 salt air, moistening the eyes
burning, tearing at...
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Categories: grained, america, angst,
Form: Carpe Diem

Premium MemberGrandfather Clock - Variation On a Triolet

...Grandfather Clock
             (A Variation on a Triolet)

     When I was young, not four foot tall,
     My Grandpa’s clock I remember well
     Stood and chimed, alone in the hall,
     When...
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Categories: grained, 4th grade, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

Rivers' Dream

...St. Lawrence river in the spring 

when a lake makes the ocean its' dream

shallow ice and sand bend the wind

the twigs begin to twitch and spin

sandwiched like a water gin

buds burn thr...
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Categories: grained, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCradle With Love

...Cradle your love gently in caring hands
Tenderly as velvety fine grained-sands
Be the rainbow in their showery days
Today tomorrow forever always.

Love graceful as pirouetting snowfl...
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Categories: grained, family, friend, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChimed Upper Room

...*Image of Hallmark Channel by Giphy.

Chimed Upper Room

Chimed new day shines...eagerly corrects an upper room looks,
An attic improving rapidly...promotes roams of dil...
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Categories: grained, happy, memory, sad,
Form: Sijo

Tekeli Pitha

...My beloved tekeli pitha!
They are rice cakes from Assam.
They are made by steaming them in a kettle (I call tekeli) lid.

Tekeli pitha 
or
Kettle cake
tint of jaggery 
making love with crushe...
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Categories: grained, 12th grade, beauty, celebration,
Form: Epic

Words Forever Young

...As my body stoops with age,
youth lulls upon the page

Where words forever young,
cry willful to be sung

As daylight quickly passes,
I greet night a friend at last

With memories deeply gra...
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Categories: grained, song, words, youth,
Form: Rhyme

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