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Best Firesides Poems

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Premium Member Castle On the Hill
Upon a grassy hill, so long ago,
there stood a lovely 'castle', tall and white;
was built in eighteen eighty-six, aglow
with cozy rooms and firesides burning bright....

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Categories: firesides, house, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Not Ready Yet
Not Ready Yet

Give me just one more day of Christmas jubilee
 Not ready to let go of Christmas, yet
Or stop gathering flecks of stardust
 Scattered...

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Categories: firesides, christmas, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
Autumn
Chilled breezes blow.
Warm firesides glow.

Pumpkins
Orange and round
Litter the ground.

Skies
Hold November rains.
Soak gentle plains.

Maple Trees
Dress in vermillion.
It’s autumn’s cotillion.

Children 
Wear shiny costumes.
Huge harvest moons.

Turkeys
Many to die.
Hear...

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Categories: firesides, autumn,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member We'Ve Been Alone Too Long
We've Been Alone Too Long

Different roads we’ve traveled down
To reach our destiny.
Many lonesome highways
Brought you here to me.

I see you now as in the dreams
I...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: firesides, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Seasons From My Meadow
 
Green as emerald lays the soft soft grass;
Dotted slightly with red, blue and yellow.
Lay down I shall, while watching the world
In my golden sunfilled...

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Categories: firesides, animal, earth, happy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Honeysuckle and Cardamon Spice Reminisces
Cognac & Brandy recollections,
   sublime warmth 'tween
        smoky exhaled vapors,
wisps of  Madagascar aromatics 
 ...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: firesides, autumn, desire, dream, fire,
Form: Imagism



Spirit of the Ancient Isles
Spirit of the ancient isles,
Of Erin and of Albion,
I call to thee,
Please come to us,
Ancient spirit come to me,
I call to thee,
In moorland wind,
And highland...

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Categories: firesides, devotion, earth, environment, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Barack Hussein Obama
(THIS IS THE SECOND POEM DEDICATED TO THE US PRESIDENT IN HIS QUEST FOR A SECOND TERM) 

Bit and bit together become whole,
And coin and...

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Categories: firesides, dedication,
Form: Epic
My Winter Wonderland
When winter comes it brings a special charm
With holidays and decorated trees
With guests and firesides to keep us warm
Despite the icy chill of winter's freeze
That...

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Categories: firesides, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
A Winters Tale
In the wintry countryside, January bares her soul and lets little buds grow,
Under drifts of pure white snow, hedge high frost hardened, there is movement,
Shoots...

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Categories: firesides, nature, winter, snow, snow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Snowfall
In a small hamlet people were outside their dwellings staring up at a heavy black sky,
Wind lashed the trees and front doors a big storm...

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Categories: firesides, nature, night, lost, snow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Just Hibernate
Winter bends low to blow gusty breaths, cold,
out of his northern lair beyond the warm
of summer’s enfolding. Capricious, bold
he plans his escapades of icy storm.
Clutching...

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Categories: firesides, seasons, snow, winter,
Form: Sonnet
A Winter Tale
In the wintry countryside, January bares her soul and lets little buds grow,
Under drifts of pure white snow, hedge high frost hardened, there is movement,
Shoots...

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Categories: firesides, nature, winter, snow, snow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Man At Gunpoint 2
Some men keep real cool at gunpoint 
Having been swimming in the company of the military,
The nozzles of guns surveying in moments solitary:
Witnesses to soldiers...

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Categories: firesides, anxiety, courage, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flannel, Quilts and Nippy Nights
Summertime is finally fleeting
and oddly, though, I am not sad.
Yes, the fields will soon be emptied
of pastel-colored flowers and buzzing bees
and wading knee-deep in tall,...

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Categories: firesides, august, autumn, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things