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Sylphlike Poems - Poems about Sylphlike

Premium Member Trapped Breath
... Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney *********** Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain, Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall. The......

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Categories: sylphlike, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rapture of Rot
... Written: August 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods *************** In the slipshod cradle beneath the apple tree, a bruised fruit folds ajar— molten......

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Categories: sylphlike, analogy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Old One
...He appeared gently from the shadow, hovered for a moment; then slowly slid his willowy fingers across hers; beyond her palm, damp with perspiration, to rest on her sylphlike wrist; where he me......

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Categories: sylphlike, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I miss who I used to be
...“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi Upon my quest for quintessence. I was an amorist, positive in poetic philosophies. Elysian and empyrean effigies, enlightened i......

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Categories: sylphlike, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Alliteration
Lips Curl At Your Fiddles
...(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever) Grandiloquence, mellifluous pulchritudinous, gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity, bile deluge if you show the sangu......

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Categories: sylphlike, anger, beauty, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Harvest of Osyter Pearls
... her ethereal gaze tucked me into nirvanic waves tore me asunder amid quixotic abyss and seraphic throe  I harvest pearls from mollusks in swimming oysters  strip it in kaleidoscopic......

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Categories: sylphlike, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Acts of Horror Gets Horror
...Eyeless it manifested from the depths of the abyssal darkness of the woods. Hide reflective more muscle almost fleshless ribbon peeled back skull necklace. Limbs contort and pop grotesque as it mov......

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Categories: sylphlike, dark, death, dog, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Rose Red Pyre Black Petals
...Visceral incantation from onyx velvet lips, moan, groan, to twist my bits as a witch. Salem pyre ancient oak standing the edifice, wrist shackled chains gather round vile cultist. Breast ......

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Categories: sylphlike, dark, death, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus
...Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus... courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace Acrimonious scurrilous words flew out the mouth of vicious nasty shortish brute leaving yours t......

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Categories: sylphlike, abuse, analogy, anger, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Transcends Stars
... Written: April 16, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aloof seashore, unmoored and carved Ambrosian aesthetically alluring In twilight's yearning glance, Once loaded, lin......

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Categories: sylphlike, first love, heart, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waning Twilight
... Written: March 09, 2024 For Charlotte Puddifoot Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ with serendipitous moans—ocean lulls It's russet embers ......

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Categories: sylphlike, longing, spring,
Form: Free verse
Indian Sari
...Wrapped around the sylphlike waist the sumptuous silk chiffon sari is hand-gathered into even pleats, likened to the petals of a flower, and is tucked bewitchingly below the navel baring the mi......

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Categories: sylphlike, sensual,
Form: Imagism
The Secret Within
...THE SECRET WITHIN Eyes - dark, seductive Glancing at each face with the hint of a smile Body - sylphlike splendor Floating like an ocean liner on calm seas at twilight S......

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Categories: sylphlike, gender, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
The Dryad's Scream - 22 Mar 2016
...I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream As axe bit into woody flesh The sap oozed out as scented cream My veins stood out in rictal mesh My wits all scrambled left me quick My hands and face were ......

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Categories: sylphlike, dream, gothic, horror, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Multifarious Wind
...The wind is a Giant. He chases clouds, sends them scudding across the sky, seduces trees to sway sylphlike as a ballet. Flags become flapping, snapping whips in his grasp. The wind is a Dev......

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Categories: sylphlike, wind,
Form: Free verse

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