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Quaintness Poems - Poems about Quaintness

Premium MemberMaking Tea

...It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quai...
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Categories: quaintness, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberMid-October Scenery

...For the mid-October contest of Andrea Dietrich
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dipping amber leaves
Earth spray-paint mid-October
crisp breeze, vibrant h...
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Categories: quaintness, analogy, appreciation, nature,
Form: Tanka



Premium MemberEnchantingly Quirkily

...Magnetic quaintness ocean-gazing wave
I can't hold the charm of her cheerfulness.
A life patch is blooming for us to save.
Magnetic quaintness ocean-gazing wave
Sacred spaces I find b...
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Categories: quaintness, analogy, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberSpring Not All Sunshine

...Springtime is more than just flowers and sun.
April is drenched, and bees will have much fun.
Swarming insects frighten with bites and harm. 
A staining sludge swamp and stinky silt fa...
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Categories: quaintness, analogy, appreciation, spring,
Form: Sonnet

The Old Battle Axe and Her Hunchbacked Henchwomen

...Matriarch mastermind manipulated minions 
rang their hells bells signifying 
damned to traverse highway to hell
dirty deeds done dirt cheap
(names changed fo' malady to remain anonymous,
cuz the...
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Categories: quaintness, abuse, adventure, anger, bullying,
Form: Free verse



Music

...Easily with our ears picked
But mostly with our Feet kicked:
A skirting round a dance floor
Back and forth its entrance door.

No sooner by cochlea’s filtered
Than it is by lips uttered
And by...
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Categories: quaintness, appreciation, creation, desire, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

Stadacona: An Ode To Quebec City

...Stadacona
An ode to Quebec City

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On the green bank of a mighty stream - 
A lofty aerie - a fair city beam
With stately air a queen, she stands - 
A gem - over these most forest lands.
An ...
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Categories: quaintness, adventure, city, courage, devotion,
Form: Ballade

Of the Dreaded Scourge Currently Afflicting the Municipality and Environ of My Nativity and Youth

...This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something wholly despicable and ...
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Categories: quaintness, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberThe Quaint Flame

...Follow the flame of quaint yesteryears.
Turn on your mind and look around the room.
Imagine tepees, dirt floor cabins
speaking history of honeysuckle blooms.

See the Lakota do their Ghost D...
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Categories: quaintness, history, imagination, light,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberAlonejolie

...Alone, still jolie...
Because he
Could and
Did enjoy you.
Even if you saw nil and yet
From his strong
Grave, he stands
Heroic, wanted,  and watching
If not unsure, he waits, washed up in tins...
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Categories: quaintness, allusion,
Form: ABC

Creative Layouts

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Categories: quaintness, flower, house,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberAbove the Mantel

...A stretch and yawn, upon the dawn, where golden sunlight warms
Venetian blinds, are wound with care, and opens up the morn
The early dew is drying now, and sun lies on the hills
The ch...
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Categories: quaintness, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Beauty In Imperfection

...The rugged bark of an old tree
with imperfection due to its cracks
is a wondrous thing of beauty
and it's the imperfection that attracts

We know that a star-shaped flower 
does not make a perfect st...
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Categories: quaintness, beauty, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Quatrain

Angels In Us All

...Every person on this earth
Is different from their time of birth
Rare and special qualities
Make us all new and unique
Hair of black, brunette or gold
Accents in our stories told
Thin or fat-- short ...
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Categories: quaintness, world,
Form: Rhyme

Dipple Dabbers

...Advertising has us in it's wrappers
here's the bad stuff ~ here the clappers,
it seems the product needs the jabbers
like a potato chip ~ the grabber!

but for the quaintness of the blabbers
I could ...
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Categories: quaintness, character, , cute,
Form: Monorhyme

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