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Starkest Poems - Poems about Starkest


Goethe and Schiller translations
...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller........

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Categories: starkest, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Words
...My words in sonnets, haiku, or "fences" Only for you my endearing true love Worry about voice, rhymes, and tenses Only for you my prettiest pet dove Carefully I slip each word on your string M......

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Categories: starkest, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Sunlight Solidarity
...When my solitude silently stands in sunlight radiating GoldenRule enlightenment and rational empowerment through windows dawning bright, A sharp shadow line vertically cuts across my bridge ......

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Categories: starkest, adventure, earth, health, heart,
Form: Political Verse
In the Abyss
...In the abyss, so black and bleak, I’m swarmed with worry, worn and weak. Peristaltic walls swallow prey: A bolus in the bowel’s bay, I am Jonah, humbled and meek. During the storm’s most s......

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Categories: starkest, faith, god, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rondeau
Disintegrating Dreams
...Disintegrating dreams I find I can no longer stand as this ground about me shakes with might. Thunderous hooves of imaginary wild horses, panting in heavy breaths, kicking dust before soiled e......

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Categories: starkest, dream, sometimes,
Form: Free verse



Phantom
...He vanished quickly from her life, leaving only the faint bruise of memories and a question that only the starkest of truths could answer Why?......

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Categories: starkest, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Winter Proposal
...With my soul at peace and my thoughts at rest, standing in this winter wilderness, I whisper words of heartfelt bliss. Come with me and walk this path. Together we tread against the freeze, and find......

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Categories: starkest, marriage, romance, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Starkest of Thoughts
...I see some strange sights, a world within the chasm- slowly filling up, flooding the fields of imagination. There is a desert left, a blip here and there- finally joined the herd. So this is......

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Categories: starkest, absence, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
The Mark
...I succumb to dazzling splendor. The sparkle of inner radiance, filtered through vivid eyes, stops purpose. Reason turns reckless. Love's desires, once drunk, become life's only goal. The luster of an......

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Categories: starkest, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Peace In Dark Times
...Harvest moon casts silhouette woman communes with heaven alone on the starkest path she feels his presence Decades passed since his demise but still she feels one with him knowing his so......

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Categories: starkest, husband, love,
Form: Dodoitsu
Every Perfect Pin
...They came for the Gypsies, The time tribe Romana's grand Gypsy trust To manifest in feasts of fear, horrific best, The Crucifixtion as a culture test Is sycophanted phallic prophecies; Mixi......

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Categories: starkest, passiondance, dance, power,
Form: Free verse
Tree House
...A sanctuary beholden to the eyes of the seer, Open hearted lays a crystal entrance to the golden, And perhaps an even more extravagant opening, Lies the broken, wooden entrance for the good. ......

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Categories: starkest, imagination, inspirational, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ansel Adams
...A unique vision through the camera lens, Portraits of nature in black and white. Letting the beauty of contrast speak. The California Coastline, the Sierras, The Southwest..all in the starkest......

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Categories: starkest, art, dedication, inspirationalwork, work,
Form: Free verse
Parallel
...As the darkness reaching out for the darkness, her black scalpel eyes met mine across the crushing divide of a revelling throng. The amateur axe band strangled a bargain basement hard rock so......

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Categories: starkest, allegory, angst, life, love,
Form: Blank verse

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