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Mantelpiece Poems - Poems about Mantelpiece

Premium Member Animating Innate Vibrance
... Between the pulse of our heartbeat simply present head- heart linking dwelling in time with stretched blissful peace awareness became unblinking. Between heaven and earth......

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Categories: mantelpiece, appreciation, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Clock On My Mantelpiece
...The Clock on the mantelpiece Has a story to tell of love It is a memory left behind Like that of two turtle doves My mother was in middle school My father in her class They were friends from gr......

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Categories: mantelpiece, addiction, angst, green, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Recurrent Ruse
... They come to her hungry - hopeful To be fed facile fantasy, a script he held Stowed in boyhood through decades Recessed where sweating shame dwelled Invisible while he achieved accolades ......

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Categories: mantelpiece, allusion, beautiful, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Floating On All Sides
...New mantelpiece, pinewood as heart's custom; A waning fire's bed, her girl loving thwarted— ...I've sparkled my fingers' approach to this hearth. I've kicked too long at its dousing birth. A......

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Categories: mantelpiece, death, fire, heart, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - Flashback -
... Baby Jesus wrapped in soft tissue paper Mary and Joseph ......

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Categories: mantelpiece, home,
Form: Free verse



COLOURFUL LAMENT
...COLOURFUL LAMENT I combed cool waters of your baby blue crystalline Jewel as you waded waterfall waves washing my stellar rainbow rays Arching it melted into the warm womb of transducing......

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Categories: mantelpiece, allegory, blue, color, deep,
Form: Free verse
Just a Dream
...JUST A DREAM When I was young and still had dreams, I dreamt of fame and fortune. With all the recklessness of youth I had no doubts. I knew I knew I’d be a household name one ......

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Categories: mantelpiece, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild At Heart
...suburban slumbers mantelpiece menagerie dreams of wild places......

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Categories: mantelpiece, animal, dream, stress, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hamish
...on the mantelpiece sits Hamish the Highland Cow, dreaming of mountains......

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Categories: mantelpiece, dream,
Form: Haiku
Perfection
...Curtains opened each fold two inches apart Waiting for the arrival Cushions neatly plumped Dust off the mantelpiece Fluff off the floor Cucumber Sandwiches on the table Tea in the Teapot Knoc......

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Categories: mantelpiece, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Hourglass
...The hourglass sat on the mantelpiece, Over a dead fireplace. Its sand had long settled In the lower globe of the glass. The miser and the fire were both dead, The wake follo......

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Categories: mantelpiece, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Far Away Moments
...Far Away Moments Face up. Flat and still. Crisp black and white images revive my memories, grayed somehow. Living. Smiles. Tears. Souls captured. Time cheated. Hearts held in my ha......

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Categories: mantelpiece, bereavement, change, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
Le Sable
...A gale sweeping seashore , Witness to the Sibyl's utterings Contains the sable unharmed With each passing jiffy . Chandelier is mirroring moonlight, Through the sable's surface serene The so......

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Categories: mantelpiece, allusion, beach, deep, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Bleeding Heart
..."How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?" —Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Which moron invented the term j......

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Categories: mantelpiece, child, death, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New Year
...The celebrations soon will all be done, Christmas and New year's eve are put to bed, trees down, cards on the mantelpiece are gone, replaced by January blues instead. As the year's dying seconds ......

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Categories: mantelpiece, day,
Form: Sonnet

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