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Oaken Poems - Poems about Oaken

By the tree
...There I stood where the smell of ancient oaken trees ran cleanly clear through the time honored wood only to be hung there lithely clinging unto the very breath we could not do anything but hold… as ......

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Categories: oaken, absence, adventure, angel, animal,
Form: Free verse
Do Ghost's Wear Clothes
... I passed the elm at eventide, Its arms were bare, its breath was wide, And there beneath the twilight sky I thought I saw a woman roam. Her gown was thin as woven mist, A memory the dark ha......

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Categories: oaken, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Santa We've Been Outta Touch
...Santa Claus, we’ve been out of touch and I don’t ask for very much but I have needs, and I’m in Dutch I want to see the light of day oh, and can you give me a sleigh and a way to forget yest......

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Categories: oaken, crazy, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Prismatic Self
... "A silenced tongue weighs heavy against the soul," quote by poet. I sit amongst a single light, light illuminating a hand-built oaken desk, desk with pictures of the past lay out randoml......

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Categories: oaken, angst, deep, emotions, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member autumn's wrath
...oaken trees s h e d t e a ......

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Categories: oaken, autumn, beautiful, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Silence of Time
...Within the first slivers of platinum moonlight, fireflies flicker. Diamond dust from a bygone comet streaks by, piercing electric skies, whilst a balmy August twilight enwraps an aging porch. ......

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Categories: oaken, deep, grief, imagery, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dream-Cast Realm
...Asclepius, one cannot build from sand, Such light and shifting grains as mortals be. The wind and tide shall warp what e’er is planned, Foundations fade before the pounding sea. And yet, when gra......

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Categories: oaken, allegory, dream, myth, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Design
...vast wonder-scape expanse variegated flora silent joy confetti heat-swirl rise oaken nesting suites sprinkled seedlings dispatched on cue ......

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Categories: oaken, beautiful, earth,
Form: Free verse
Bed rotting’s not quite the right term this time
...Found myself doing my damndest to sleep through the day again. Wake up, pull the wool over my eyes, block out the world, repeat. Certainly not a positive omen (what with Halloween and November 9th)......

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Categories: oaken, dark, depression, hope, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a crow’s command
... I be a common salty once no captain's bars, did bear yet blessed was I to venture where few a skipper dared from crow's nest high aloft I saw those br......

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Categories: oaken, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Curved Leaf
...Cursed by the autumn With a lost decorum Lies the shrunk oaken leaf As though full of grief Curled and furled Within winds of time whirled As though swirled and twirled Isn’t this a ruthless......

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Categories: oaken, creation, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fading Photographs
...Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops, drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains. Snow owls call out to each other through the whistling wind, as flakes of......

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Categories: oaken, bereavement, december, introspection, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Real Boy
...I walked beneath the ribcage of a giant whale; Encapsulated in the briney entrails of an empty long-dead being. Its grimace echoed in these halls of boned wall, Of which calcite chambers temper;......

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Categories: oaken, age, courage, innocence, ocean,
Form: Free verse
To What Shall I Liken Thee?
...Shall I liken thee to a sunrise? Thou art the sunrise of a fall morning's glow. Thou art the oaken breeze that bids you "hello." Shall this describe to what I liken thee? No. Shall I liken thee......

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Categories: oaken, baby, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 3 of 6'
...III. Ecological Awareness In this fragile eggshell I will call life for security's a mirage I chase. Existence is a gamble I take a wild and desperate gamble......

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Categories: oaken, earth, environment, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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