Long Bordered Poems
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In the silky night, dotted with mystery
In the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...
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Categories:
bordered, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
A Paradise Island
Written 24 December 2023
Placed 5th in :
No 1243 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
...
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Categories:
bordered, appreciation, beach, ocean, sea, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 21
Before them lay the bridge. It was a beautiful arch spanning a small estuary that was bordered on one side by the rock and bolder strewn beach dotted here in there with mostly dying...
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Categories:
bordered, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
In the Valley of Avalon
In The Valley Of Avalon
This day the master of my Fate
Is none of those who lead shuddering
Through mazes of wizardry,-
Nor Trachmyr the Hunstman,
Nor Tannwein the daughter of Gweir,
Nor Penpingyon the porter of the palace,
Nor the...
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Categories:
bordered, art, creation, fantasy, imagery, imagination, mystery, surreal,
Form:
Classicism
Banned Book Club VII- 1984
Midtone grey surrounds what’s left of a man’s soul
Scenes of biblical abominations troll
Inky are the hellish horizons appalled
An okay is needed for anything at all
Manipulating truth determines your life
Erasing individuality is part of...
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Categories:
bordered, anxiety, books,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sky Limits
Someone may say to you, "Your wish is my command".
You will then look at such a one and say, "Really! You don't say".
The reply to you is, "I do say, and anything you desire is...
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Categories:
bordered, blue,
Form:
Verse
Something Old, Something New
" THE TALE Of A YELLlOW PONCHO" - Something OLD (posted in 2020)
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Categories:
bordered, childhood, first love, love, memory,
Form:
Ballad
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...
(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
regarding the universe created courtesy
Nora Roberts well crafted novel Montana Sky
perusing...
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Categories:
bordered, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Bullets In the Soup Pot
BULLETS IN THE SOUP POT
I
BEFORE THE MIRROR
Sometimes, I sit on my sofa
Pondering on why war, poverty, hatred
and anguish has become a comforting bliss.
They say life is an unending quest; is it?
They say true love lasts...
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Categories:
bordered, depression, fear, hope, inspirational, life, love, life,
Form:
Free verse
Border Town
I dwelt once in a dreamy town, my land was alongside the border,
In a region of natural beauty, next to a crystalline body of water.
From the jade hills of my land, I could clearly see...
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Categories:
bordered, fantasy, international, life, nature, peace, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
In the depths of nothingness, my love, a flower sprung from snows
In the depths of nothingness, my love, a flower sprung from snows,
I dreamed of you as a splendor, an undying fire in the night, an eternal promise of beginning,
An ode in the whiteness that migrates,...
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Categories:
bordered, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Magical Journey
*“Named after Pieter Both, who was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Pieter Both is one of the most beautiful mountain peaks in Mauritius.” Mauritiusnow.com>blog>things-to-do>pieter-both
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Categories:
bordered, appreciation, journey, magic, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Etched in Stone
Etched in Stone
In the...
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Categories:
bordered, appreciation, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Singing Mother
Placed 9th in :
No. 1238 New Poems Only
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Since her birth on the mount ...
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Categories:
bordered, environment, inspirational, mother, nature, river, song,
Form:
Concrete
Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, Sitting
So many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing
January's record accumulation.
Weeks of hour after hour after hour
upon day upon day upon day of
birches'...
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Categories:
bordered, death, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the gracious host, the lovely widow of a wealthy sugar planter....
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Categories:
bordered, abuse, analogy, black african american, society,
Form:
Haibun
Here, My Dear
Humble yesterday, your intimate memories are now
bearing false witness, following our demise.
There are scattered whispers of a residential cloud
nine, that I called my own after the storm.
No myth could be written guiltier....
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Categories:
bordered, analogy, break up, growth, heartbroken, loneliness, moving
Form:
Free verse
My First Kiss
Today I was thinking
About my first kiss
It’s really hard for me
Because it was so long ago
And to be brutally honest
Drugs
Have taken their toll
...
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Categories:
bordered, adventure, life, loveme, girl, me, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Sanctuary
I was a stylish, assertive travel agent, arranging getaways for busy people;
Like sudden getaways of jewel, shooting stars, on ebony nights of upheaval.
I planned calm, exotic, trip itineraries, for all tired of city hustle and...
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Categories:
bordered, beach, beauty, fantasy, nature, sea, silence, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
Dear Depression
Dear depression.
Hi old friend.
Greetings to you from myself and writer's block... The two of us have developed quite a bond over the last couple of weeks.
You should know that I am writing this letter...
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Categories:
bordered, depression, gospel, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 5
Every other Friday afternoon before Bumblebee would leave on her special errand, her mother would open the old cedar trunk at the foot of her bed and give Bumblebee three things to carry with her...
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Categories:
bordered, allegory,
Form:
Prose
Too Many Lives Are Floating In This Flood Wave
Too many lives are floating in this flood wave
Mon Ami,
I am honored to be included in your exposition
Theological border walls
You were opening your glittering purse,
A set of cloth line clips,
I was gazing there
From a...
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Categories:
bordered, for her,
Form:
Free verse
No Sin For a Mirror
No Sin for a Mirror
Arabic Poem by: Habib Al-Samir*
Translated Into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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In a room,
Bordered by the sun on the right
And the moon on the left,
A mirror stands
On a smooth wall
Exposing or concealing...
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Categories:
bordered,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Pheasant
The weather was just how I liked it
Looking like it would stay dry
The breeze had the sharp tinge of winter
Beneath a low overcast sky
The thick blackthorn hedgerow behind me
Bordered the tangled beech wood
In front was...
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Categories:
bordered, natureme, old, me, old,
Form:
I do not know?
Edgar and Me
© Ben Burton 2-20-2015
If I were Edgar Allan Poe
I'd been dead many years ago
Two score, no more, the poet bore
Before rejoining his Lenore
Reflections now, from sixty-five
I'm wondering how I have survived
For, having shared his mental...
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Categories:
bordered, poets,
Form:
Rhyme