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Skillfully Poems - Poems about Skillfully

Premium Member Plagued by Memories
...Mosaic mahogany memories Shatter like silver glass within me Reflecting red reveries Of all that could be And never was Yet somehow cutting Inside my mind bleeds dreams Scents of lavender ......

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Categories: skillfully, angst, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Old Quilt
... This old quilt lies across the bed, the one we shared for so many years. Each stitch lovingly made with the old-time craft once taught to you. This pink stitch enfolds me now, in a memory of the ......

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Categories: skillfully, beauty, devotion, endurance, love,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Waltz of the Dead
... Written 04/02/2025, for the Iron Maiden " Dance of Death" song, contest sponsored by Robert James L. ****************** Scary lie shrouded in opulence I ponder over ......

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Categories: skillfully, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Apotheosis
...Its torment is meant to disturb the whole of the peace you embody The aim is to fragment & scatter but you see the path of pieces as if they're breadcrumbs or brain matter Time & again they ......

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Categories: skillfully, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Line Cascade
... Written: March 29, 2025, for contest, Sponsored by Brian Strand ************* she's a dazzling beauty mark, upon my love line thoughts that cascade like vibrant wav......

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Categories: skillfully, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cubby's
...At Cubby's, the neon hums/ A beacon in the night/ A place for solace/ But now a source of plight/ I stood there, a truth on my lips, unplanned/ Asked the clerk to be kind, to lend a gentler hand......

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Categories: skillfully, betrayal, corruption, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
FALSE PROPHET
... Whoever the evil one prophesies skillfully, greatly dehumanizes......

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Categories: skillfully, allusion, analogy, perspective, words,
Form: Monoku
Fallen Angel
...Why did a cauldron of bedeviled bats fly right into the grim windows splattering their blood on the shards of glass strewn all over the floor… What drove them to their gruesome death? ......

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Categories: skillfully, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
To Be An Artist
...Solemnly I sit in silence, slaving over scant sculptures I begin to carve away at the silky slip my tools gliding skillfully Although at a glance, I may seem serene inside there is a savage stor......

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Categories: skillfully, art, desire, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As the flowers are reborn in the embrace of emerging spring
...As the flowers are reborn in the embrace of emerging spring, Who am I to wither at dawn, when I see the morning blackbirds gathering, Blessing me with songs they sing in crystalline voices. Once, ......

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Categories: skillfully, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the depths of the mind, endless questions dance like shadows on the vast and silent sky
...In the depths of the mind, endless questions dance like shadows on the vast and silent sky, Who am I, what am I, a speck of dust merged with everything, a fragment of a lost dream? I am nothing and......

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Categories: skillfully, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member willfully drenched
... willfully drenched light tricks the darkness shards skillfully dissect I stare into the sun become its after image......

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Categories: skillfully, art,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Soma Ria
...Ria, where should I begin...? Perhaps now's the time to give in; As a maker of verse within, All beauty writhes in chagrin - My words fail, wearing thin, To release flowing t......

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Categories: skillfully, farewell, for her, loss,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Turnabout
...Georgie Porgie was a little overweight, since he loved tasty desserts, Like puddings and baked pies; or green woods, full of robin concerts. Georgie was ten years of age, possessing an im......

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Categories: skillfully, boy, fantasy, girl, growing
Form: Couplet
Sappho Translations IV
...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 133 translation by Michael R. Burch Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love, brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos, come t......

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Categories: skillfully, friend, joy, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse

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