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Hovered Poems - Poems about Hovered

They Taught Me Manners, Not Consent
...They taught me to keep my voice folded like a handkerchief in my pocket, clean, unused, never to be raised, never to be loud. They taught me to sit like a question that dared not be asked, ......

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Categories: hovered, anger, birth, confidence, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fly Taught Me to Fly
...It came like a whisper on wings too dirty for angels, a fly with no gospel— just bloodlust and fire. I don’t remember the bite— only the stories they told me— the brain-boil, the silence of a ......

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Categories: hovered, baby, imagery, psychological, sick,
Form: Free verse



Torpor
...I have been accepting that I lost my courage to be vulnerable, and I hovered over words that would not flow, For my emotional tsunami hides in the insufferable, I was just afraid to let this ach......

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Categories: hovered, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fake Out
...I woke to a whirring hum— not the low drone of memory, but the sharp, electric flick of a question with wings. Languorous molten air, a stone canyon furnace, and there!— a hummingbird— head......

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Categories: hovered, bird, happiness, humor, joy,
Form: Free verse
A DARKER SHADE OF BLACK
...A darker shade of black. To keep the shadows from peeking back. A dimmer shade of dark. Keep the fear out from my heart. As I closed my eyes I drifted off to sleep. Lying wide awake as darknes......

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Categories: hovered, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tangerine Sky
...Lost and floundering in an unwholesome fog, time stood still as if in a freeze-framed mental log; roiling clouds swirled and hovered beneath the sun, tangerine streaks sketched on the horizon. ......

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Categories: hovered, appreciation, beautiful, change, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peripheral
... I watched the porch lights flicker on for them— the laughter soft, the timing always right. The chairs were full. I hovered at the stem of every plan, then vanished with the night. A window cra......

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Categories: hovered, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Logic in Mist
...I sat down with a notebook A soft buzz in my head Words were there Then slipped away Like smoke through fingers Disappearing into thin air Ideas floated just out of reach Like clouds in a sk......

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Categories: hovered, dream, writing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Butterfly On The Wing by Lin Lane
... 1st Place Winner As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her wings she ......

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Categories: hovered, appreciation, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
And the phone rings
...And the phone rings Your name splashed across my screen I answer but you are not there Were you ever? A thousand times my hand has hovered Balanced over your number Torn between wanting Kno......

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Categories: hovered, goodbye, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly on the Wing
...As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath......

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Categories: hovered, butterfly, garden,
Form: Couplet
The Butterfly
... The Butterfly By Mystic Rose As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her w......

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Categories: hovered, butterfly,
Form: Couplet
Chasing butterflies
... ~ She chased a pretty butterfly, the field a minty green With Salvia and Baby's Breath, a watercolor scene As fast as her two feet could run, she touched its silken wing, s......

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Categories: hovered, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
The Unsent Confessions
...I crafted words at midnight, perfect in their form, Emotions spilled like rainfall before the coming storm. My fingers hovered trembling above the final key, These truths too raw, too honest for y......

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Categories: hovered, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Psalm to God my Creator
...You inhabit light unapproachable, there is no darkness with you. Darkness and light are alike to you. In the beginning when the earth was formless and darkness hovered over the deep, You spoke,......

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Categories: hovered, birth, creation, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

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