Dance Waking Poems

In dawn's soft embrace, flickering the light,
Lighting up shadows, bidding night goodnight.
Eyes slowly unveil a world anew,
Morning's palette, a canvas of hue.

Birdsong weaves through the...

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Dew slips down the gentle leaf,
Unburdened by the sunlight’s reflecting
Grace over the mountains, misty
With remembrance, beautiful like the burning
Wonder of a painting, only these colors
Can’t...

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The waking state, our weakest link
If governed by instinct
Oh hermit, each act with love ink
Make ego urge extinct

Be alert, not in trance
Distil thoughts, take no...

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A fortress on a vortex is a myriad of milestones on a moon. But moons are not mules and mules are not to be entrusted...

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Now tonight I cannot sleep. I dream but these dreams we reap. So is it that I can't fall into trance? Or is it these...

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Dreams, Battles and Waking To Rejoice


Times that my mind wakes to take flight
flying away in spheres of magical dreams
So often are near hour of black...

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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We...

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Fair dawn calls

touching pale flesh, that

reminds me

to wake sparks

doused by threadbare night’s  lament--

till rays sun-dance eyes




Any Poem Under 10 Lines
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by nette onclaud
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The sun did not rise with me this morning.
The cold, grey mist was there
Embracing all the places
We had been the night before.

The music, too, was...

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What kind of beer do you want? 
"I prefer it cold but I will drink it hot, 
or even sour, if that is all you...

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