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Preternatural Poems - Poems about Preternatural

Strength Does Not Always Roar

...Fragility is quite a strength
just as the crucial bumblebees’ breath
Perhaps not only titularly
gentleness is stronger than severity . . .

Channeling Emily Dickinson : To be a feather in a holo...
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Categories: preternatural, art, beauty, hope, mountains,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberLes Cirque des Morts Collab with B J Fitz

...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades  overgrown fields,  
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.  
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—  
bloated a...
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Categories: preternatural, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLes Cirque des Morts, Collaboration with Sara Jama

...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,  
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.  
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—  
bloated and we...
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Categories: preternatural, analogy, dark, death, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Nocturne of Wounds

...A pallid night, a void's umbral reign,
Emptiness, a phantom, claimed the lane.
A dirge of noir, a melancholic strain,
Echoes, sepulchral, whispered in the rain.
The phantasmal memory, a haunting ...
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Categories: preternatural, anxiety, dark, forgiveness, gothic,
Form: Rhyme

A starry eyed burst of creativity

...A (starry eyed) burst of creativity...

at approximately
a painfully early o'clock in the morning
give or take an o'clock
found yours truly (me) amassing
line after line of a poem
crazily coal...
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Categories: preternatural, abuse, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse



Richard Mcgeehan Poem

...Richard Mcgeehan Poem

Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine 
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorpora...
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Categories: preternatural, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Wardian Case of Coruscating Light

...Preternatural beauty dense and thickly lush 
elegantly displayed requiring very little gush 
A terrarium bottle garden in a growing rush
staving deep with vibrancy and gentle hush; 
A wardian cas...
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Categories: preternatural, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberParty Crasher

...My Halloween party was in full swing. I had gone all out this year and rented an old crumbling, reputed-to-be haunted mansion for the evening's Dionysian festivities, and all the invited guests were ...
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Categories: preternatural, halloween,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberMultiplying Green Paths

...Polypaths
lead neuro-systemically back
to Mother/Child original wombed attachment

A remarkably warm
and wet counterpoint
to a sterile anthrosupremacist theory
of Original Separating Sin.

I...
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Categories: preternatural, appreciation, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberVisions Absurd of Grandiosity

...Overcome by a wave of curiosity
   I decided to try out seriosity
For which I'd no particular precocity
   'Twas an ill-fated breeze of impetuosity

With visions absurd of grandiosity
   I'd po...
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Categories: preternatural, character, fantasy, giggle, spoken
Form: Monorhyme

As I Arise

...As I arise and fresh aspire
to seek that which, in men, inspire,
with each new light, of each new day, 
I still by will and night's display,
again, have lost my way. 

I claim that all is lost ...
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Categories: preternatural, culture, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Bipolar Mania In Rhyme

...			I.

O Bacchanalia! O wild Mania,                              
     be this crazed ecstasy the touch of God!?           
To be transported bodes Arcadia:                             
     but...
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Categories: preternatural, god, happiness, joy, mental
Form: Bio

Premium MemberBillie Holiday

...I love you lady, singing velvet night sky,
singing azure violet wounded woolen stitch.
I love your lady quavering haunting cry,
intoning shades of purple in fevered pitch.

I love you lady, even...
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Categories: preternatural, addiction, allusion, angel, blue,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberFemale Statue In Platinum

...powerful piece de resistance
precise, provocative, posturing 
providing plebian pleasure

Statuesque as an Amazon woman,
Platinum or pewter? She perseveres 
Prodigious? Preternatural and pivota...
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Categories: preternatural, art,
Form: Imagism

Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem

...Vampire Poetry

Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
 
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
 
born of the night
and her heart, of ...
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Categories: preternatural, dark, death, desire, evil,
Form: Verse

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