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Touch Me Not Poems - Poems about Touch Me Not

Similarities of shrub and bride

...Oh, my dear touch -me-not plant,                                                                     You are behaving like a new bride,                                                                ...
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Categories: touch me not, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet

Touch -me- not -plant

...Oh, touch -me-not plant,                                                                                     Are you a mere sleepy plant?,                                                             ...
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Categories: touch me not, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberGarden of Delights

...Garden Delights, a set of stamps
from 2024.
features stamps in which there are
different scenes of four.

A ruby-throated hummingbird
takes great delight
in hovering near a flower,
each a pre...
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Categories: touch me not, flower,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberRide or Fried

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Compare my motorbike and air-fryer
Because at times they both can be quite cold.
So, when they are their buttons I will push
To turn them on, my touch must not withhold.

I'll warm them up u...
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Categories: touch me not, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZen mode

...Behold how life does unfold;
ours to touch but not to hold,
so in mode embrace-release,
we flow like a gentle breeze.

God steers our life and we flow,
in time dissolved stillness slow,
free f...
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Categories: touch me not, spiritual,
Form: Jueju



Sir Thomas Wyatt Translations 1

...SIR THOMAS WYATT TRANSLATIONS 1

Whoso List to Hunt ("Whoever Longs to Hunt")
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Whoever longs to hunt, I kn...
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Categories: touch me not, grief, heart, love, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDreams Within Dreams

...My eyeballs move as though witnessing scenes within eyelids.
Face, just like obeying commands of some far-off spirits, skids
Heaven, with the triune god and the angels illumine
I cross the boundar...
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Categories: touch me not, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme

Chaucer Translation: Welcome Summer

...Welcome, Summer
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Now welcome, Summer, with your sun so soft,
since you’ve banished Winter with her icy weather
and drive...
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Categories: touch me not, heaven, sky, song, summer,
Form: Roundel

Do Not Come

...Do not come if you don't want to be touched, to feel my skin against yours.
If you don't want to be explored, to have your boundaries gently pushed.

My touch is not a assumption, but an invitatio...
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Categories: touch me not, poetry, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Faded Rose

...In the garden where memories play, 
A faded rose whispers soft goodbyes, 
Petals curling in gentle disarray, 
Crimson dreams lost beneath autumn skies.

A faded rose whispers soft goodbyes, 
On...
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Categories: touch me not, nature, rose,
Form: Pantoum

A Fire Arcane

...A violet blaze, a whispered plea,
From ancient depths, a fire set free.
Purple flames dance, a spectral sight,
Where shadows writhe in ethereal light.

No heat it holds, no scorching sting,
But...
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Categories: touch me not, fire, purple,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberfeeling alive

...breathing the cool breeze 
birds sing joy-filled melodies ---
blossoms ballet-dance 

waking from its sleep 
touch-me-not smiles at tall trees ---
nostalgic leaves nod
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Categories: touch me not, nature, wind,
Form: Haiku

When Summer is Gone

...Contest: When Summer is Gone
Sponsor: Jcb Brul
1st Place.

"Was it the iris in your heart or was it the whale in my soul?
I thought we were meant to be."                       ~ the poet

balm...
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Categories: touch me not, appreciation, beautiful, ocean, summer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMorning’s Muse

...It’s 5am here and 2am there
I’m up with the blue birds
Pulling the word worms from my mind
Wiggling out seeking the soil 
We all want to be planted in
We all desire to be made whole

Golden su...
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Categories: touch me not, appreciation, bird,
Form: Free verse

UNTOUCHED

...I reside in those hazel eyes
which display emotional smile, 
let the words evade coz if you sigh
this purest talk will subside.
I request you, never speak the words
your eyes convey it better!
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Categories: touch me not, break up, character, endurance,
Form: Free verse

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