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Hones Poems - Poems about Hones

Premium MemberThrough a Tiffany Window

...USPS Stamps Contest 7-24-25 Stamp Chosen American Treasures Louis Comfort Tiffany 2006  Tiffany believed stained glass was a spiritual experience.
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Categories: hones, art, beauty, morning,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberImagination

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“Imagination hones our thoughts to soar
      above the ordinary ones that bore.”
                                           _by Poet
 
Imagination is a special gift
that sile...
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Categories: hones, imagination,
Form: Dizain



Premium MemberLiving Out

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Life in the phase of living it out is still enjoying itself
It produces small reasons for contentment
It hones the skill of distracting itself with trifles
Not unsuccessfully it attempts to inse...
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Categories: hones, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Axe Grinder

...He hones his purpose on a stone whet of spite,
Edge kissed to gleam in the dead of night.
Relentless is the echo tuned to hindsight.
Endless in the knowing his cause is right.

His grip is firm,...
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Categories: hones, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZen mode

...miraculous immersion
in illusionary space-time
containerised in organic form
borrowed from elements 
leaves us astonished 

here we are then
both captive and free
positioned as we wish to be
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Categories: hones, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberUndoing the Disarmament of Venus de Milo: Aphrodite Gets Her Biceps Back

...Tombs begin to bloom like raw, bloodless wounds.
Tomes are written with truths of her dead moon’s
tones. A keening lunacy keeps the dirges alive, while
bones rise out of repose. A degloved hand on...
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Categories: hones, appreciation, art, betrayal, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTalking to the Dead

...("The Cave of Unknowing", 2012, original oil)


Talking to the Dead
(aka musings on Jacob’s Ladder)

The essential message of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Is that the clear light of min...
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Categories: hones, allegory, death, life, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberSummer Brings Beaming Smile

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Written: June 10, 2024

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It was in wildlife that my soul was born,
Enjoying serenity under the night stars.
My heart was never designe...
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Categories: hones, smile, summer,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBarbarossa II

...As Barbarossa roars into the East.
its southern barb cut swiftly to the core.
And as it raged the slaughtering increased,
consuming any force that stood before.
His swift barrage devoured the ran...
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Categories: hones, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

The colour Purple

...In the realm where hues collide,
Where blue meets red, and souls abide.
There lies a shade, both bold and rare,
With regal presence, beyond compare.

Purple, the color of power and might,
In ki...
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Categories: hones, 4th grade, addiction, life,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberHEALTH FOOTLES

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Good health
sure wealth.

Heart beats
love greets.

Brain zest
thoughts best.

Face glows
praise shows.

Hands serve 
Strong nerve.

Feet fly 
steps high.

Firm bones 
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Categories: hones, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberBody Ails Yet Spirit Soars

...In the dawn's embrace, as slumber fades away,
Bones crackle, the body in aching display.
Soreness nestles within, each muscle groans,
Yet the spirit persists, it tirelessly hones.

Each morning'...
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Categories: hones, age, body, pain,
Form: Rhyme

The Unappreciated Woman

...Just take a good look at me;
My frame is attractive!
It does the unsated
appetite of the chauvinist
fuel.
My curves and your fantasies
are mutually inclusive!
Without them, dreams
are truncat...
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Categories: hones, abuse, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMonk Mode

...not only not counting
even forgetting
milestones 
we are wonderstruck as spirit
beauteously consciousness hones

behold how a flower blossoms
unfolding petal by petal 
likewise we too ascend
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Categories: hones, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberXylophone

...X marks the spot - teeny fingers tap colors.
Youngster’s attentive to the rainbow bars.
Language of a rambunctious or prissy toddler.
Oscar music songbook exalts experience.
Potent stick and head...
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Categories: hones, child, music,
Form: Acrostic

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