Short Yearningly Poems

Songs
Promise
Interesting
Reviews
Intelligently
Trusting
Evokes
Desperate
Helpings
Every
Area
Really
Tryingly

Branch
Emotions
Arrogantly
Treats
Selfishly

Friendship
Rectafies
Elagantly
Entices
Living
Yearningly...

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Achingly
Beautiful
Courageously
Deft
Energetically
Frivolous
Gaily
Happy
Ignorantly
Joyful
Kind
Lovely
Magnanimously
Nobly 
Open
Preciously
Queenly
Rare
Splendid
Terrifically 
Unsuspected
Voraciously
Wicked
Yearningly
Zany...

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Long for solitude.
And still, whose access
Lengthy coastline's of sheoke
That voice, will, back through
Yearningly sombrous, the more
Be listened in for.

Long for solitude;
Cliff top's wave-crasher.
Still, which entrancing peace
No castaways rue
Broke, when on a tide, inland
Seen, with you, to stand....

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a bookmark in a chapter
another fairytale
about a damsel in distress
and the knight who couldn't save her

she is trapped high in a tower
surrounded by a moat
her tresses are not long enough
for the knight to use as rope

lovingly she watches
longingly she waits
yearningly she ponders
what will be her fate

hope now quickly leaves her
as the knight initiates retreat
the happily ever after
this time is not to be...

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Mama Mable made music mellow with mood
But baby boy Bradley bellowed and booed
So sensitively she started singing sweetly
Yet the youngster yowled yearningly

Poor perplexed papa peered and pleaded
“No nocturnal nuisances are needed,”
He hurried through the house, his hefty frame hobbled
Baby boy Bradley basked blissfully with his bedtime bottle


*For Constance’s Forms of Poetry 101 contest.  Never tried alliteration before.
 by Carolyn Devonshire...

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