Palpitating Poems

Premium MemberGlass Slipper in Moonshine

...Midnight came and went as perilous as a wolf howling at the moon.
—by poet

Tease of time, palpitating pearls,
she’s flirting with the bluest eyes,
framed in heaven’s clouds. Girlish...
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Categories: palpitating, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You

...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that  I am  ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories: palpitating, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse


She said her name was Amahle

...Mere gaze to her direction, goosebumps perforates my skin
There's something out of this cosmos in her aura. 
Sense and meaningful in me, 
at loggerheads trying to define her. 
Tap into my senses,...
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Categories: palpitating, beautiful, cute love, dedication,
Form: Free verse

The Victorian House By The Small Dogwood Tree

...There stands the Victorian house
by the small dogwood tree I planted at the age
of nineteen thinking of a colorful spring;
what a subtle joy palpitating inside
at a short distance, before Lassie ...
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Categories: palpitating, butterfly, dog, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

FISTFUL

...Fistful butterflies sway along with the wind.
Ever frolicking through the vibrant desires.

Fistful sand slipping down in haste.
Unbothered about the delays and tussles around.

Fistful days fl...
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Categories: palpitating, cheer up, confusion, destiny,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberYet I Cling Long Version

...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful  pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Y...
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Categories: palpitating, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet

Frostbitten Heartstrings and Drunken Truths

...My eyes couldn’t help 
But wander 
And smile at every passing inch 

Aimlessly following the walls 
And your voice 
Throughout the house you lay your head at night 

It was cozy 
Decorated d...
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Categories: palpitating, angst, body, december, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSummer's Endless Nights

...Thinking of tonight 
Finessing of the moon
I hear my own heart palpitating 
In my every thought
All tender mercies hot murky
Mercury thoughts summer's 
Magic you know as much as I
July heart's...
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Categories: palpitating, heart, imagery, july, life,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberWhen I Can'T Find My Pen

...When I can't find my pen it  
Becomes a pestering particular 
Problematic  position of such 
Preposterous proportions 
I'm  liable to  search the deepest 
End of the  lake in search  of this
lo...
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Categories: palpitating, deep, devotion, fate, fear,
Form: Alliteration

The Timing of Lovers Palpitating Heartbeat

...Tell me lover please what intimately 
makes you tick

So I can summon forth bye whatsoever 
means

I may intricately hand craft a bespoke clock

That pulses and count's time in accordance
to...
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Categories: palpitating, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThank You Lord For My Home

...Some people live in cardboard boxes  
others between buildings 
Certain individuals beneath a tent 
others under bridges, or close to dumpster bins 
Palpitating life on the street, 
you never kn...
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Categories: palpitating, appreciation, house,
Form: Free verse

This Picture Ain'T Pretty

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She ain’t the belle of the ball anymore
She’s not the picture
hanging on the wall
	               behind every dorm door

Miss Best Beauty
is no longer
the fave social media queen

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Categories: palpitating, beauty, imagery, parody, people,
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberThe Devil Wears Titles

...The Devil Wears Titles:
President, Senator, New's
Anchor. The Devil can look 
spiffy and sharp: a big city
Governor quoting scriptures,
her voice, soothing and melodic,
though a lying Harp – Th...
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Categories: palpitating, bible, child abuse, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Love

...We cannot see love; 
We can only feel it nor touch it.
We see its affection through emotions
The beauty; it take thee to utopia onshore.
Being in ocean and feeling of cool wind.

It can go deep...
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Categories: palpitating, love,
Form: Rhyme

Shade and Shadows

...Shadows walk the land
 beneath the clouded blue painted sky
 as winds blow light but fast on the fly
the shadows fall;
 spectres beneath the mighty oaks
 haunting echoes of time asleep and woke
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Categories: palpitating, allusion,
Form: Rhyme

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