Moistened Poems

Premium MemberA Triad of Tanka IX

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Fragrant rose petals

Streaked in trickling rivulets               

Of shy, tearful zest;

But more poignant your red lips

Moistened by the cooling air.
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Categories: moistened, emotions,
Form: Tanka

A coin gawks at a grand big note - 2

...But tell my friend, you must have moved a lot.
Oh sure, I’ve been in a constant journey:
To a beggar for a few biscuits bought,
With a child thrilled as if with a trophy,
On pilgrimage, or in som...
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Categories: moistened, journey, money,
Form: Sonnet


Premium Memberi’m a scoundrel

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I'm a scoundrel thru-and-thru
      please don't fall whate'er you do
         no libel mine should pain ensue
   withdraw your heart
should passion start
      what I want's not within
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Categories: moistened, analogy, love, passion, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLubricious Kind Of Potion -- slight typo corrected

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The curved fondle of an embrace
within the moistened kindle
of an evening's oiled lamp...
 the splendor of your  lubricious mouth
gathering all that's aflame and gentle

and I will find the...
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Categories: moistened, for her, for him,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberSummer Outgoing Next to Greet Fall

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           Summer not gone, starting showers.
           Summer outgoing : Next to greet Fall :
           Rainy environ embowers.
           Summer not gone,  starting showers.
           Mois...
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Categories: moistened, autumn, rain, summer,
Form: Triolet


Echoes of a Victorian Christmas

...Men in tailored suits 
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking 
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm 
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped, 
crinolined, 
elegantly sculpted.

Their tigh...
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Categories: moistened, christmas, happiness, history, joy,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberI Breathe You In: 300

...As the ethereal guitar mesmerises
My soul responds
As if I dipped into a melodic bath
Of perfectly curated
Lovingly tempered 
Heart massaging
Candle flickering 
Water 

A fragrant tune invad...
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Categories: moistened, blessing, dream, guitar, happy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRow by Row the Nettles Grow

...Row by row the nettles grow
And circles do surround 
Hairy stems the prison wires
And jagged leaves their barbs.

Cry out, forsaken sinner
Your voice shall not be heard
We listen to the wind s...
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Categories: moistened, christian, death, death of
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Sad Farewell

..."The clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire".


After many cold winters, they met again, 
Under the poplar tree on a starry moonlit night.
Though they had planned it over many a time,
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Categories: moistened, destiny, first love, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOnly love knows

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When the stars send their gentle glow, whispering
winking, flirting with the shadows cast over the night’s sky
breaking through the horizon – strewn haphazardly
sometimes so careful to rip...
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Categories: moistened, appreciation, god, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMuddied Bloodied Memories

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                         Why do you haunt me dear cousin of mine

                         I desperate to leave all this sorrow behind!

                        But how can I wash from my you...
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Categories: moistened, dark, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme

Absence

..."Absence makes the love grow"
    Absence grows love?
                      grows love??

Okay but what is what is absence?






                      Fair enough 

But surely, if 
  I...
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Categories: moistened, absence, crush, desire, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberthe sorcerers apprentice

...The old sorcerer was teaching his apprentice a lesson about the moon, but as usual the subject drifted, this time, to witches. “How would I know a witch if I saw one?” The apprentice asked.

“It’s ...
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Categories: moistened, fantasy, fun, humor, write,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Just Called To Say I Love You

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Nightbird croons at me again, again
beneath a sheet of clouds,
like cozy pillow to my moon
to tuck my ruffled mind away...

Through drizzle's fading glint and flow
I muse about my man...
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Categories: moistened, devotion, romantic love,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberOffering

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            offering amour-
            with flowers moistened in tears~
             accept: do honour.
            

    


   
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Categories: moistened, love,
Form: Senryu

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