Idyllic
The majestic sense of a hidden place lies in its elusiveness
where secrets and dreams are allowed to intertwine.
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Categories:
places,
Form: Rhyme
Going Places
The bold horizon burned and died
cold in my eyes as I turned aside
on the road to nowhere
taking it slow
making it easy
in no hurry to go
I'm taking my time
for I never felt the need
to heed the latest mad fad
or follow the current day's craze
yet I don't fret or sweat
the small stuff
but I did learn
soon enough
the tide...
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Categories:
places, how i feel, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Kensington Avenue
It’s sad when poverty
leads to the proliferation
of gangs and sales of drugs
which leads in turn to addiction.
No bigger open market for drugs exists
than one where great homelessness grew.
Gangs are thriving even to this day
there on Kensington Avenue.
Gangs of many ethnicities,
prostitutes and miserable folk
hang out there hooked on
heroin, fentanyl and coke.
A billion dollar market where...
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Categories:
places,
Form: Quatrain
The Cloisters
I can almost hear the
haunting monastic chants
and solemn songs, lost
between the rippling currents
of the Hudson River.
The Cloisters stand, silent
upon a nearby hill
stone walls and ancient towers
are stoic and timeless
carrying secrets of the past
covering forgotten sins.
Echos of voices, Ave Maria and rosaries
the fervent signs of the cross
commune amongst sacred writings
silent prayers...
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Categories:
god, places,
Form: Free verse
A LUXURY I WISHIn my comfy corner, a little space
A place of my own, as soft as a lace
Lays a long chair of queen’s height with a wooden base
With a rocking style for a ride at a mild pace
Cushions of vibrant colours, in fitting size in the pattern of a maze
Attracting all in less time, fixing attention and...
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Categories:
places, books, day, home, literature,
Form: Free verse
Welsh Winter : englyn
weathering Wales in bleak winter is hard
though starred sheep remain sleek
taverns roaring fires a feat
making Celtic maidens sweet
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Categories:
places, allusion, england, fire, how
Form: Englyn
Of Bygone Era Weeping willows of
past twilight inkling
cast a blurred shadow
on “lily-white age”
viewed through clouded lens!...
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Categories:
places, age, innocence, introspection, memory,
Form: Other
Party Crasher
Categories:
places, boy, food, humor, imagery,
Form: Senryu
Kensington Avenue, PhiladelphiaWhere is this? Are we on Mars?
America – just count the stores,
capitalist carnivores.
That so-familiar movie score,
the swish of passing cars.
The city built on Brotherly Love
(Wells Fargo, Fitch and Abercrombie)
at the mercy of Pam Bondi
- was that a person, or a zombie? –
What was Madison thinking of?
Car’s no use: no place to park it.
Arrested at a...
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Categories:
places,
Form: Rhyme
SCRAPBOOK
Tokens
of long ago
scraped from pages
of present, future tense
where life's journal erases
scabs from wounds
Visions From A Vignette 2
Sponsored by nette onclaud
6/22/2025
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Categories:
memory, places, time,
Form: Verse
Erratically-Tossed SequinsErratically-tossed sequins
Mark the places of night's stadium -
A netherworld of colored stones
For the spry flights of cherubim -
And Jehovah - madman or genius -
I cannot quite discern -
Overlays time upon us
And I'm a lowly spectator.
One angel keeps an amethyst -
Ignoring...
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Categories:
angel, places, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Two Ways to LiveThere’s living a life, with the wind in your face..
Chasing the sun in a faraway place.
Hearts beating wild on a mountain’s high peak..
Finding the magic that most never seek.
And then there are those in the grip of the grind..
With dreams set aside and the clockwork in mind.
Paying off walls they barely call home..
Counting the days...
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Categories:
places, journey, life, money, people,
Form: Rhyme
Finding A Place
We seek out places
that seem to fit
the contours of our soul.
For some,
it is those quiet places
with expanded distances
way out past the reach
of thought. For others,
it is cramped city streets
where buildings rise
like glass cliffs on either side,
noisy restaurants and talk
in dimly lit bars.
And there are others
who find fit in seaside...
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Categories:
places, poetry, solitude,
Form: Free verse
A Pond’s Melody
into melody
jumps the frog beyond the reel
slow dragonflies goosed and ducked
a lit symphony
campfires dance like sun and moon
in ripples of stone and wind
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Contest:Show me a Choka
Sponsor:Nette Onclaud
Written:06.08.25
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Categories:
places, bird, environment, light, nature,
Form: Choka
Ruby LaneDown here on Ruby Lane
Sitting looking at the rain
Looking at my glass of red
Thinking what I haven’t said
If through negligence some changes
Shuffle here with rearrangements
Nothing’s changed its all the same
Changes die on Ruby Lane
From the dullest land of mad
I have come to get some bread
And some wine I need to take
Just to have a...
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Categories:
loneliness, memory, places, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Places Poems
Definition | What is Places in Poetry?
Poems Related to Places
area, city, community, country, district, domicile, dwelling, habitat, hamlet, hole, home, house, neighborhood, plant, position, region, residence, room, section, situation, town, venue, vicinity, village, zone,