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Words Poems | Examples of Words Poetry

Premium Member Poems unread
Obscure poems that stay unread Words that’re spun in a poet’s head Never been seen floating away Seeking poetic light of day. Words akin to the tumbling rain Surge in, reciting sweet refrain Whence the night is dark and timeless In an abiding quietness. Poems no one has ever heard The solitude of silent words Whispers journeying off somewhere Celestial as silent prayer. As stars saturate...

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Categories: poetry, silence, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fine Semantical Line
Are you unwilling or are you lame? I don't get hung up on a name. I ask only "do or don't". Screw the line 'tween "can't and won't". The result comes out the same....

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Categories: words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member One Day At A Time
You were always so good At hiding yourself in the dark I tried and I tried To throw you out Of the furthest recesses of my mind And somehow you are still there Embedded in the deepest crevices of my brain Where I couldn't see you Lurking there in the blackness For thirty years Waiting ... for one of those days When I'm down and...

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Categories: words, abuse, bullying, childhood, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Idyllic
Delight! nothing could be more idyllic than when writers receive commendation for work, non-synthetic, non- acryllic, pieces with original foundation. Stand and say without intimidation - “I composed this from my own heart and mind.” your own witness worth hearing, well-defined. I’ve read A-I recyled in comments - mere placebo, neither helpful nor kind, so ostentatious, perceived as...

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Categories: words, 11th grade, care, heart,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member scrabble is my game of choice
scrabble is my game of choice carrace, lamesbe and myjoyce seven letters I make into a word the time I spend on this is so absurd two to six hours a day I make words in a clever way scrabble forever appeals to me putting words together, my happy glee...

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Categories: words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Be
Be is alone and empty but vitally seeming to Be~~ ...

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Categories: words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rejigging dis-membered memories
can't re-assemble what the forgotten has lost for to re-member, memories you must firstly dis-member them carefully...

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Categories: word play, words,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member All Words
All Words All Words Mean More Than What You Heard Them Say, Or What You Said They Would, Or What You Thought They Did, Or What You Meant They Say… They Could EXPLODE! But Don’t Be Too Careful… They Aren’t All Yours. -Gray Squirrel 07-25-2025 ...

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Categories: words, life,
Form: Free verse
Original Haiku 1 by Michael R Burch
Original Haiku by Michael R. Burch Keywords/Tags: winter, love, dream, kindness, sun, sea, leaf, leaves, autumn, spring, life, poets, words, stars, moon, war Such a frigid winter day, our words also icy —Michael R. Burch Her love, sheer and ***** as gossamer, did not adhere... —Michael R. Burch I dream of love as bankers dream of repossessing Ferraris. —Michael R. Burch The hummingbird fans an iris: myriad acts of kindness go...

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Categories: words, autumn, dream, love, poets,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Thought of the day
thoughts are mere symbols, symbols illusion ~ why then do we languish in delusion...

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Categories: allusion, introspection, words,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member soiled words
Soiled words, discarded thoughts Literary leaves of autumn Blowing aimlessly without direction Caught in the fervor of a wind gust Scorched by times fading flames Shrieking in life’s mindless madness Knowing that their moment, their season Has escaped the grasp of Now’s passing ...

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Categories: muse, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worth Framing Forever
If a picture is worth a thousand words so is a sigh or a groan A smile is worth framing forever laughter to give it backbone ...

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Categories: cry, smile, words,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Fools gold
No answers~ Answers claim to be The gold being sought~ The answer's presence in the field of separation is fools gold Unless gleaming as nothing~~...

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Categories: beauty, words,
Form: Free verse
Words Not For The Faint Of Heart
Commemoration for those gone before Affectation of all you continue to adore Altercation at the start of a burgeoning world war Annihilation of the injured, innocent and poor Commensurate collusion of the parliamentary debate Irreverent confusion at the celebration of the state Degenerate delusion as they refuse to integrate Protectorate protrusion while the masses consecrate...

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Categories: words, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Spitting Image
I wonder why my parent said She’s the spitting image of grandma dead For in death, grandma did not look her best ~ though she still aced the saliva test ...

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Categories: humor, meaningful, words,
Form: Couplet

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