Intoning Poems

Premium MemberSelf Love

...I am, neither an angel nor a wicked monster, 
But a beautiful creation of God, a radiant soul,
With qualities of head and heart, with foibles and flaws
And with a personality and minds...
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Categories: intoning, appreciation, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnder the bridge of night, two strangers met, in a silence that seemed to halt time

...Under the bridge of night, two strangers met, in a silence that seemed to halt time,
Their hearts grew light, like a breeze caressing a calm and sleeping sea,
Their gazes met, and silence turned in...
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Categories: intoning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse


Michael Joseph Jackson

...Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of t...
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Categories: intoning, abuse, addiction, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

A Night On the Beach

...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs
in fluorescent foam.
Blue pods rattle on green tides.
Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair
washing tangled ankles.
There are voices in my open mouth,
they roll ove...
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Categories: intoning, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Tribute

...Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from their sempiternal dreams of a free lan...
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Categories: intoning, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberLay Me Gently Down

...Lay me gently down on a cold wint’ry day,
While the fireplace sparkles and blue flames rise
A day when the sun shines not to brighten, nay
Snow cloud blankets denying warmth to the eye...
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Categories: intoning, death, feelings, memorial, perspective,
Form: Rondeau Redouble

Coming To Term

...COMING TO TERM IN THE USA  2022 Laraine Kentridge Lasdon

who are we to talk of women’s rights
or the travesties of cultures of bans
when our Supreme court becomes
a pawn of pandering politics
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Categories: intoning, america, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sacred Drops

...Forth from the heaven, from the misty moorlands of all sacred woodland greens,
drop by drop by striking the pebbles and untouched vegetations oozes, 
the intoning hallowed water of evergreen wo...
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Categories: intoning, beauty, journey, nature, philosophy,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberThe Fiesta of Cherry Blossom

...Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the cloud,” in the lush mesa of the magn...
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Categories: intoning, celebration, nature, paradise, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTowards the Waterfall

...She wound her way as was her wont,
Along the treacherous path
Adorned by rock, and roots and ferns,
Elated as if there was a fire dance in the breeze,
Towards the lake and the waterfall.

So...
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Categories: intoning, love, water,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Utopia Untrodden

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Have seen an utopian lane, amidst the thicket, latent In the abode of the clouds, in the lap of  the tranquil wilderness, far far away from the mundane mist! 
A  wheezing sparsely inha...
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Categories: intoning, appreciation, beauty, culture, farm,
Form: Pastoral

Premium MemberThe Whistling Hamlet

...A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle scads of  tranquil crypti...
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Categories: intoning, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration

If Lovers We

...IF LOVERS WE
(To Julia)

``		If lovers we, you and I, who would we be?
		W0uld we be William Powell and Myrna Loy,
sophisticates, trading alcoholic quips across the dining room?
Would we be Abe...
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Categories: intoning, husband, inspirational love, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWords of Wisdom

...WORDS OF WISDOM



CAPTIVATING BELL ON A STEEP SLOPE WITHIN AN ISOLATED WORLD GAVE
SOLACE TO THE HERD


AMONG ANGELIC VOICES MESMERIZING CHANTS ALLEVIATE THE FEARS OF
A LOST NOMADIC SHEPERD
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Categories: intoning, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBillie Holiday

...I love you lady, singing velvet night sky,
singing azure violet wounded woolen stitch.
I love your lady quavering haunting cry,
intoning shades of purple in fevered pitch.

I love you lady, even...
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Categories: intoning, addiction, allusion, angel, blue,
Form: Sonnet

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