Purling Poems

Premium MemberLets Rhyme

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Written: November 24, 2023
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Seraphic sand is sapped on the seashore
As swirling waters swallowed the load roar.
The roiling ...
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Categories: purling, analogy, appreciation, river, sea,
Form: Monorhyme

The Great Names

...This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by 
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.

Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that 
swallows ...
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Categories: purling, birth, creation, earth, magic,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Listening Heart

...I had spent recent years in mourning, since I had lost someone very dear;
As when pallid moon is hidden by clouds, and bright stars will not appear.

My job as a professor consumed me, and I was h...
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Categories: purling, christian, death, faith, god,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberTreasuring the Educator

...A former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not

The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.

We ...
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Categories: purling, education, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberBells

...BELLS

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Bells has a tingling ring to it,
a jingledy-jangle silver tone.
The tympanic waltz, close knit —
angelic chorus of Christ’s throne.

And Winter parades its magic ...
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Categories: purling, beautiful, christmas, dark, sound,
Form: Rhyme


Understanding Crinkles

...On its surface a crimp and cockle
of a purling tide have rucked an impression
on a stone.
We are here to find Eagles
but the sky is too low and the wind too high.

You show the image on the sto...
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Categories: purling, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDawn's Gifts

...Ever these gifts from Eos of dawn,
Her mornings gently purling  with ray’s early  luster
To herald new sunrise, a  jasper flare--
Robed in ornate chiffon waltzing quietly
On marbled h...
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Categories: purling, beautiful, image, morning,
Form: Personification

A Crow Told Us

...A crow told us not to go away
Whilst a knitting and a purling she did say
You can’t go to China for I am scared
The meet thought of it is such a dread
I’ll stay in Adelaide in the parklands
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Categories: purling, football,
Form: Ballad

Nineseventeen

...Aahhh sumptuous beloved nineseventeen

calling for hot frothing, purling, bubbling steam

laving eager flesh with honey scented cream

strategic jets pummelling tight spots unseen

hand langu...
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Categories: purling, paradise,
Form: Free verse

Nature's Love

...The brook follows the path of least resistance
It does not confront obstacles 
It embraces them
Nature knows not war

The landscape is tranquil, peaceful
Nature likes it that way
Rolling shade...
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Categories: purling, love, nature,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberWhen Scorpio Goes Dark

...Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote 
blue sphere, purling,

spinning helplessly 
through...
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Categories: purling, space, stars,
Form: Free verse

Libertine's Riddle

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                          Purling
      As the lotus 'mongst the waft top 
                            wet

                       Arciforming
       With the pretty colorful rainbow
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Categories: purling, riddle,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSpring's In the Air

...Winter's winking wearily in the sun
gracefully giving ground
knowing Spring will never run

Muted, molted, monochromatic colors turn
vibrant, vivacious, victoriously
welcoming the return

Sof...
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Categories: purling, friend, seasons, spring,
Form: Alliteration

A Poet

...A bright morning sun reflected off the everlasting hills and over blushing flowers,
Then onto whispering trees heavy with fruit, over purling steams and dimpled lakes,
A poet, dipping his pen into th...
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Categories: purling, philosophy, nature, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Poet

...A bright morning sun reflected off the everlasting hills and over blushing flowers,
Then onto whispering trees heavy with fruit, over purling steams and dimpled lakes,
A poet, dipping his pen into th...
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Categories: purling, philosophy, nature, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

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