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Best Tone Poems

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Premium Member The Hushed Tone of Her Love
Lived it
Like a daydream 
Sunlit!

Faintly
Floated - Befell
Quaintly.

A note
Scented in love
She wrote.



Maurice Yvonne
11~28~2014
Sponsor: nette onclaud
Contest Name: WHISPERS OF A MUSE ...

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Categories: tone, love,
Form: Verse
My Sweet Past Tone
Once you filled the room which hollow for a moment
Couples of days before new year eve we indirectly met
Hilarious to remember how we know and...

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Categories: tone, goodbye, love, music, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tone Down the Intensity
Tone down the intensity
Is like telling the sun
Not to reach its zenith
Of blazing, scorching heat
Or telling the waterfall
Just as it is ready to gush
Down in...

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Categories: tone, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Parents Set the Tone
Shirt says runs with scissors
Hat says shut up woman
First day of kindergarten
Parents have already set the tone
 
Child knows swear words
Uses them proudly
Anticipating loud laughter
Crestfallen...

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Categories: tone, parents, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Chime At the Tone
P   oets are a special breed
O   bsessed with how each line reads
E   ver seeking the perfect rhyme
T  ...

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Categories: tone, poets, sound,
Form: Acrostic
The Cloud of Tone
There things education should give
Pain and despair, and 
The other the spirit of quit....

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Categories: tone, courage, fear, education,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member It's All About the Ring Tone
I'm afraid of my cell phone I confess
"Someone" changed the ring tone to cause me stress
While I took a  nap
He switched it to rap
Now...

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Categories: tone, family, funny, Grandson,
Form: Limerick
The Tone In Her Voice
The tone in her voice told me I had gone to far,
the tear down her cheek another scar 
inflicted upon an already bruised loving heart.

The...

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Categories: tone, childhood, family, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Tone It Down To ''At Least For the Duration''
Time does our earth presence sever
But the post office is clever  
And offers for sale
For its eternal mail  
A stamp that is good...

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Categories: tone, allegory, business, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The First Tone Poem
I chug upward
as the air
thins, the sky
blues the stars.
Then it, at the peak,
stops. Music
is not like life.
Envisioning the rhythm of time,
when the now point arrives
there...

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Categories: tone, allegory, analogy, art, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Ring Tone
Stillbirth neither won
Gullible becomes the pun…
Cell phone cries to stun...

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Categories: tone, angst, death
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Two Tone Sky
Morning sky woke up
Golden and Indigo frames
After Super Moon...

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Categories: tone, moon,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mid-Tone
Oboe
don't step on toes
in a way people knows.
No, no. Oboe semi-wails, moans,
alto reality, beauty, sometimes
scarce sense of order but deep sense
of vibe. Oboe don't step
on...

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Categories: tone, friendship,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member The Tone of a Poet
The poet conditions herself to self blame 
for she writes of life's ups and downs 
a sense of bored gents from town to town 
for...

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Categories: tone, art,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member New Year - Wishing For a New Tone
leaden bows scour quavering cellos – lithely lilting violins

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tone, hope,
Form: Monoku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things