Refrains Poems - Poems about Refrains

Written: June 17, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand *************** longing goes On our warm kisses ...

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Oh Love! Throb and thrill of my life Why you desert me in my strife? Why stay far, giving no delight? Don't fade like a symphony sweet. Won’t you come near and ease my pain Can’t you see me in sorrows lain? Be with me...

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Musical notes in sweet refrain Sentimental rhythms soothe the soul Nostalgic song in hearts remain Musical notes in sweet refrain Rhapsody of joy to attain Sing along as the lyrics roll Musical notes in sweet refrain Sentimental rhythms soothe the soul 11-4-2024 ...

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Hokey-pokey rhymes with Skokie largest village in the land New York's a city 'tis a pity still inhabited by man ___________________________ Skokie, IL -- population ~ 75,000...

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Strolling down memory lane as a saxophone plays a haunting melody, notes floating like ghostly dreams as time meanders like a river through eternity Love etches its way into the heart of eternity With melodies of a violin, so bittersweet it plays For sometimes it ends in broken hearts and dreams Musical refrains take...

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Dawn spills hues of honey-tangerine and leaves its sweet dew on the rose, Sunbeams sweeten the morning, With warm caramel glows A dulcet bird song floats and sugar coats the breeze awakening all the flowers Which give nectar to...

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I open my book of memories As I travel back in time I see us embracing 'neath palm trees Our hearts as one do chime Dulcet refrains of the violin The fragrant scent of the rose Notes from the piano now join in a melody only our hearts know We stroll the beach 'neath starlit...

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REFRAINS OF WINTER SONATA When fallen brown leaves brush a sepia picturesque and the bubbly breeze blows a heated winter sonata, the giant roses of clouds are teased, they shed icy petals tumbling, drifting like little ballerinas dropping to rest on branches of trees, grasses, houses and down to window ledges clustering in lily-white hues. Frosty mornings and nights lure the...

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(a poetry collection) for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi ~~~ Third Leaf: "Mavi" (Turkish for 'blue') We love dreaming hallucinations of ivory towers out of fear of tumbling truly asleep into visions of doghouses and nightmares of Tinseltown-Princesses falling in love with the dog in the backyard… * * * Alexander… they called him Great, loved a beautiful soldier and a beautiful horse, kissed...

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(a poetry collection) for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi … the mind within mutely knows that much of love´s pain is not surrender, but self-infliction, yet willingly surrenders to a blindfold worn above a knife thrust into the heart… * * * … in vain, we hope the wound will heal, though the wind will...

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(a poetry collection) for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi … you´ll find yourself through the agony of giving birth to your friend, brother and lover, the same blood throbbing to the same pulses through the same veins from the same heart making love to heart… … the unsolvable riddle of essence born and...

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(a poetry collection) for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi … illusions don´t matter when you see the best of yourself reflected by the beloved in the garden pool of your affection… * * * … your ocean reverberates in mine, the terror of darkness in its thunder, sunrise-surges in its motion, and resonating to all,...

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(a poetry collection) for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jalallidin Rumi … beyond its usual flavor, the lemon is only as bitter as compared to the sweets preceding it… cleanse your taste buds with it and turn the favor on its head with the caress, again, of sweets upon your tongue, forgetting the bite...

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(a poetry collection) for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi _______ First Leaf: "Radiantly Dark" I have wandered the moon-smitten byways of earth and not seen a divinity as radiantly dark as your eyes, and knowing this I am lost, not caring, for my mind is lost just as well… * * * … I won´t be found until the eclipse of...

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