The Beloved's Dominion
...From all the fair ones thou hast stolen light,
And thou didst think upon thy captive's plight.
My heart was darker than the night so deep,
Till sudden light did chase the shadows' sleep.
A hu...
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Categories:
reposed, cute love,
Form: Ghazal
Choosing Peaceful Curiosity
...Monotheism's greyscale God
is a monochromatic antithesis
of polytheism's gay
full-color
Gaian Hypothesis.
A radiant monotheistic SunGod
is the 1 numerator antithesis
of a polytheistic
non...
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Categories:
reposed, culture, math, metaphor, religion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Obedience
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Obedience is worship at our core,
respectful gratitude,
in practiced restraint,
armored Saint parkour.
Obedience helps you to be still
as you are shown the way.
A north star com...
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Categories:
reposed, art,
Form: Rhyme
Creating Jade Meadow
...
“Escaping from life’s wasteland into the serene
introspective depth within I discover the treasure of
emerald bliss” – Quote by Poet
Walking in weary steps along the amber wilder...
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Categories:
reposed, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Halo
...Before I am reposed at last, weave me a crown of flowers
So for when I pass death's threshold, I might carry life
For the rotting halo I wear might turn me into an angel
And my decomposing body...
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Categories:
reposed, dark, death, flower, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reclining Rose
...Reposed in shadows
within a realm of colors
dusty rose gown blurs.
All the flowers she adores ~
as gold love's beamed out of doors.
Green and purple blooms
are always in her warm fa...
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Categories:
reposed, beautiful, color, flower, nature,
Form: Personification
trying to take a luxurious old persons nap
...Tuesday of last week was humdrum said Cap
I had to take a luxurious old person’s nap
Boredom put me down hard, I reposed in a stream
Ready for an exciting adventuresome dream
My body loved it s...
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Categories:
reposed, age,
Form: Rhyme
her purty pulse'd
....
her
animated she with
purr'fect pulse'd
robustly
latch'd
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Categories:
reposed, appreciation, beautiful, character, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Strawberry Water
...My love's reposed neath the military lawns of rows
of marble lit in moonlight's tender care.
July, the month of dreams of him-
watching bluebirds feed their fledglings under
Carolina blue skies s...
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Categories:
reposed, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
From a Passionate Swain a Straightforward Declaration of Love Is Made
...I love women who gracefully dance
And sweetly sing; and women who
Avidly read and who brilliantly think;
I love women who love to love—
And who despise to hate—and who
Receive and give of th...
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Categories:
reposed, for her, grandmother, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan
...“A famous work dating from 1885 by Russian realist painter Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan. The painting depicts Ivan the Terrible mortally wounding his son Ivan in a fit of rage, and ...
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Categories:
reposed, violence,
Form: Ekphrasis
Tranmutation
...Written 12 December 2023
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
Transmutation
Whether transmutation of energy
Is a...
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Categories:
reposed, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
'Twas Naught His Night
...Be there the bight of a November drain
turned off tattered ruffles blotted feign
a ledged I removed and tender earlobes
waif yonder spectral possession probe...
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Categories:
reposed, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Truth
...Truth, the absolute, and the primordial light,
the supreme celestial creator of the universe,
lasting as the surviving sequins of the remnant radiance,
the perennial pristine essence of t...
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Categories:
reposed, life, truth,
Form: Free verse
Waves
...My relentless reverie reposed
on engrossing edge of halcyon horizon,
where the scarlet sun
unshrouds the demure dawn,
brings me across million miles
of dreaming detour of trance
to the cyan ...
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Categories:
reposed, analogy, joy, sea,
Form: Free verse
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