Likening Poems

You Haunt Me

...You’re the tame auspiciously lurking in the still of my nightmares, frivolously evicting the static that haunts my memories, illuminating this frantic mind if even for a second.

Crippling the narr...
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Categories: likening, adventure,
Form: Free verse

Idiosyncrasies

...Stranded with lost love, the idiosyncrasies connect, like constellations in galaxies yet to be seen, deprived, deranged, disembodied emotions drift disconcertingly into each others night. Fasting on ...
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Categories: likening, graduate,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHiranyagarbha

...The cosmic egg splits, wherefrom two forms emerge,
the polarities of Self, male and female,
who seek to unite as of soul’s innate urge,
so descending from head to heart, they set sail,
where thei...
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Categories: likening, heart, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima

Peace

...I got it peace may be an appreciation of the world
   or it is what is happening when we say for instance
    something is western or eastern or southern
    or northeast or northern
   or someth...
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Categories: likening, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKoilon

...Blavatsky said space is God
but pause we her give a nod,
consider: where is God not?
Contemplate thus, be self-taught.

Wisdom Leadbeater affirmed 
and Annie Besant confirmed;
koilon: a term c...
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Categories: likening, mystery, space, spiritual,
Form: Jueju


Premium MemberInterview with a Grain of Sand

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A reporter balked at his assignment for the week.
Too insulted to keep quiet, he complained, “I’ve never talked
to a grain of sand before!”  “Yet, you must become meek
and DO it,” was the resp...
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Categories: likening, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZen mode

...when we be equal
to both highs and lows
likening life to a lucid dream
joyous at all times in equipoise
what then remains to be done here...
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Categories: likening, peace, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Lift Me Up

...Take me to where the wildflowers grow and show me where to go, take me to where the wildflowers grow and wet my soul with the dew of the morning, wake up my spirit at noon and drench me with the mois...
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Categories: likening, america, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberIn simple words

...Emerging from a fulcrum deep within,
arises a humming, magnetic pull,
which in each moment does afresh begin,
drenching us with bliss, making heart feel full.
Rapture ignition, thus in renewal,
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Categories: likening, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberInterlude

...“In the gap where no narrow thoughts intrude ~
Heart is bliss imbued in the interlude”
            ~ quote by poet 


Desires that bind, we’ve left behind,
making our touch gentle and ...
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Categories: likening, joy, silence, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle

Premium MemberDecayed

...“This world is but thought and thoughts fade away ~
Eternal is God’s love, that’s here to stay”
            ~ quote by poet 


Alive here on earth, what we know is this
What is born, w...
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Categories: likening, death, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain

Shukran

...I have nothing better to say
Than Alhamdulilah on this special day.
Many years ago when Mama gave birth to me,
She knew a success is what I'd turn out to be;
Kiniun the King of the jungle,
Akoni...
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Categories: likening, birthday,
Form: Rhyme

Uncontrollable Desires

...I gazed upon the familiar dirt road, partially submerged in the narrow ditch. 
Every inch of its hardened surface was damp to the touch, causing my lips to tremble with uncertainty. 

The darkness...
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Categories: likening, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMonk Mode

...Likening life to a splash in the ocean,
wherein love aligned, our role’s simply to feel
contrast of duality with emotion,
embracing and releasing, with zest and zeal
each offered impu...
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Categories: likening, life, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima

Premium MemberAutumn Death

...Likening autumn to beauty in death,
behold mighty trees in full bloom exhale,
as leaves fall to ground, with their dying breath;
dark seems the future, so in fear trees pale,
succumbi...
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Categories: likening, autumn, death, spiritual, tree,
Form: Dizain

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