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Prior(A) Poems - Poems about Prior(A)

Prior to Intent
her presence at first sight an illumination something I didn’t understand she stirred imagination a current ran through my body and whatever stirred was beyond comprehension an angel, perhaps I watched as she checked into my life and disappeared without a word but she lingered in my mind a constant stirring until the next time when I said hello ...

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Categories: prior(a), inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prior to Intent
hovering in limbo ideas strewn about lacking sense or reason images suspended in mid air notions and impressions floating and colliding vague feelings in the raw idly drifting meet their match simmering a stance before long ... thoughts are forming notions interpreting and framing and a plan's laid out for action Submitted on July 19, 2025 for contest PRIOR TO INTENT sponsored by UNSEEKING SEEKER...

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Categories: prior(a), imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Tremor
Before thought–the heart: a struck bell's hum, in the chest's dark chapel. No word. Only thrum that echoes the void where meaningwill climb. Is this the soul's raw conference? A draft. of prayer–unwritten–lifting like a raft on some deep tide. Not speech. Not yet. But chime of nerve and grace. Mind fumbles, blind, to trace this pulse–intent–before it wears...

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Categories: prior(a), imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prior to intent
Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker Line of inquiry: "heart sets up a vibration echoing as wordless intent mind translates in symbols flight of our soul’s ascent is intent then a stirring of soul with God, conferring" *************** Before tenacity sets off its...

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Categories: prior(a), appreciation, change, mirror,
Form: Rhyme
Prior to Ink
Pen prepares its blood with quiet intent, Flowing with words that embrace no cliche; Its spirit starts to pump the heart's content, Beginning with inner insights to say. The ink's voice shouts with neither sound nor noise, Creating calmness inside the bold mind; The soul's silent scream still seems its best choice, For the right meanings hiding there to find. Shrouded...

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Categories: prior(a), poetry, wisdom, words, write,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Thorns of Prior
Due depart and so, desire The rose does not befit the choir...

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Categories: prior(a), desire, flower, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, and Jacqui McShee
I live in hell, because I was given a choice, who ever on earth had the sweetest voice - Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, or Jacqui McShee? The demons rejoice as in hell, I am bound to forever dangle deciding, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention or Pentangle?...

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Categories: prior(a), music, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Prior to the Afterlife
The ceiling sparkled; I saw the big dipper, then the little one. The painters needed a bigger tip for their creative execution. Without a warning to prepare, a requiem played. The symphony corned all aspects of a so-called classic; muffled screams, vulgar tongues and your tears – Silence doesn’t come fast and I begged for forgiveness and...

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Categories: prior(a), anger, farewell, murder, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moments Prior
As you are my love beneath a full moon a rendered silhouette in splayed light our arms are empty as our eyes consume in wondrous dreams that lay before the night the scent of fragrant love shares its rapture fills the senses with our sensual glance when emotion overtakes and capture we treasure the heart of our jeweled romance how quiet and naked...

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Categories: prior(a), romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member RYHME UNTO ME PRIOR-Appeal Reveal Wordsmith ZEAL PRAISE OF OLE' WILLIAM SHAKESPARE-
Lo, Oh poet of mine admire; Speak to the fire; Converse open flame thine heart dire; Arch-poet, ballad maker compose lovely lyric rhyme unto me prior; Ballad singer, balladeer voice still cry; I ballad monger, idolize beat poet, bucoliast, elegist shy; Fair epic poet, folk singer gleeman, journey lands, Idyllist speak unto me emerald skies; Imagist, jongleur, laureate recite...

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Categories: prior(a), analogy, appreciation, poetry, poets,
Form: Other
Premium Member Three Days Prior
Friday, three days prior; The Son was scourged and bleeding. Sunday, when He rose again- A spotless Lamb proceeded. Friday, three days prior; The Son had cried: “forsaken?” Sunday, when He rose again- The keys of hell were taken. Friday, three days prior; The Son of God was dead. Sunday, when He rose again- Trembling demons fled. Friday, three days prior; The Son was laid to rest. Sunday, when...

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Categories: prior(a), christian, easter, god, good
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Comes Prior To Danger
I am feeling watched again Nothing ominous A nurturing spirit She wants to guide me I sense that she is not allowed A sigh comes from my heart most of my spirit guides are children male children this one is a female; I sense a grandmother figure She comes prior to danger I look at my car keys hesitate to drive...

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Categories: prior(a), spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prior To Surgery
Holding hands in the crowded corridor A tender moment amidst the horror You smiled at me, and touched my heart I returned the favor ~ thus did we part...

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Categories: prior(a), farewell, love,
Form: Couplet
Just Prior To Lockdown
Evening: empty streets and empty hearts, all seems silent, eerily still, each house a silhouette, a chink of light the only sign of life, curtains pulled tightly shut, as if to keep out the virus, keep out the world. And inside each house,  people are going stir crazy, hoping and praying,  arguing and weeping,  and worrying. I reach my house, see its chink of light at the window, and...

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Categories: prior(a), health,
Form: Free verse
Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating Fusillade
Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating fusillade... Galvanized hotheaded idealists (jaded locals - kindled moderates) nursed oppressive proletarian quavering riot spearheading triumphant utopian voice... whether contrived right here and now, or purportedly fragmented remnant occuring during REM sleep beside the point, asper conjuring atypical bent arising within mindscape, sans garden variety *****sapien. he laments instantaneously forgetting intricate webbed tapestry comprising unconscious manifestations nearly every time reluctantly...

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Categories: prior(a), appreciation, atheist, brother, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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