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Revery Poems - Poems about Revery

Premium MemberDividing Line

...Bright lights, flames in motion.
Arms weighted with emotion,
as each carries
their burdensome torch.

Lit alleyways, littered by mayhem,
breached by commonsense.

Is it too late
to chase sci...
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Categories: revery, imagery, truth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThanks John

...Clearly in my memory,
a moment of discovery,
in spiritual revery,
and I was not alone.

A kid, when I first heard his sound,
with mountains all around,
it was something new I found,
Country R...
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Categories: revery, music, sunshine, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberOn Devil's Night

...On Devil’s Night

There once was a devil queen  on Whispering Lane
Mean and cunning her crew driven insane
For millenniums hurling malice 
Content in her palace
Casting a malevolent...
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Categories: revery, angel, anger, anxiety, evil,
Form: Limerick

The Memory of Rain

...I like the smell of rain 
That permeates my nose 
a little time before  miraculously fat drops 
start falling on my head .
They bring a joyful feeling that I can not explain.
 those clouds have ...
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Categories: revery, boat, emotions, granddaughter, grandfather,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSight For Sore Eyes

...Milky Way dream spots 
and other-worlds engaged me 
this earthbound urchin
science fiction plots might stir
a pure childhood fantasy 

But golden aura 
folks can sense that Christmas treat 
t...
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Categories: revery, care, celebration, character, child,
Form: Tanka



Premium MemberIf the World Should End Tomorrow

...If, by chance, the world should end tomorrow
How would you spend the last day of your life ~~
Either in revelry or regret?  in jubilation or sorrow?

With time cut short, your day bec...
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Categories: revery, earth, future, world,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberClassic Romance Revery

...You've always known me as I have known you,
we must've sent glances ten thousand times.
Beyond all our days done, both bright and blue;
regal fates fail in moving my windchimes.

The ringing we ...
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Categories: revery, class, fate, feelings, longing,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberGod Heard Our Mama Pray

...Summer 1967
                           None of us ready for heaven
                       We headed down that old highway
                          A fun road trip, a summer day
 
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Categories: revery, miracle,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Patch of Moonlight

...A Patch of Moonlight

A patch of moonlight glimmers in pale shades of ivory
Then drips from feathery pine boughs in soft revery;
Nightingales fill solitude with pure symphonies
Still serenity of...
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Categories: revery, moon, night, stars,
Form: Rhyme

In a Revery,The Last Post

...A tragedy
alone and dying
far from home
all you can hear
sotto voce
in a revery
The Last Post....
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Categories: revery, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Sappho Song Tribute

...sorrows 
    of the night
dew
falls
    tenderly
       upon hearts
of loneliness
breath
words
      soft spoken
disperse
the light
    into
       purple
          shadows

soft
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Categories: revery, poetess, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberFading From a Distance

...We held the ash of paling revery 
how fast, through shadows blowing out the night
but then, it faded; lost in  times remote
in places where I had been known to you.

But flash and fade, ...
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Categories: revery, hurt, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Dreams of Library Ladies

...The Dreams of Library Ladies

Library ladies could it be you sometimes dream
With books (and children) all put in their place
Do you imagine an alternate library scene
A view transformed to more...
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Categories: revery, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGone

...No time for breakfast, snatch a cereal bar,
anger at mislaid  keys to the car.
He vents his spleen at anything that moves
she dishes out a look that disapproves.
The children eat their toast, the...
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Categories: revery, loss,
Form: Sonnet

Soul Transporter

...What is Love?, but the transporter of the Spirit
Neither Fair or Foul the Truth of it is that we Fear It

When a woman of young age doth see what she desires
No heed nor helm in many a realm will...
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Categories: revery, allegory, allusion, death, humanity,
Form: Narrative

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