Ridding Perception of SelfLet the eye see, through clear, clean lenses
Not a wilderness of mirrored reflections,
Echoing biases of misconception,
But, with true perception, rid of self.
The sound I hear from out there,
A call of bird, a ring of bell,
Is not a story, memory nor a spell.
It is improvisation in staccato, syncopation.
The taste of a raindrop on the tongue,
Is not,...
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Categories:
senses, sensual,
Form: Free verse
This Is To BeThis is to be,
a seed yet sown,
a deed yet done
a whisper on tongue
a kiss becoming
an echo sent
a gift bought
a line cast
a promise made
a wink of eye
a smile on lips
a touch on skin
fingers meet
a glint, a glimmer
a ripple, a quaver
orange glow at dawn
a breath of wind
a whiff of scent
footsteps
creak of gate
knock on door
hum of tune
distant...
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Categories:
angst, senses,
Form: Free verse
You Excite All My Senses
You excite all my senses.
I happily lack any defenses
against stimuli your love dispenses.
Your ways lack false pretenses.
Whenever together, true joy commences.
Eyes, ears, taste, scents, touch -
all intoxicate me so much.
My heart and soul clutch
because our love grants such.
You are my sweet penuche.
Thoughts of me and you
paint a picture perfect view.
Our combination is love's brew
sweet seeped...
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Categories:
senses, happy, joy, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Naked LegacyI taste the beating of your heart
As truth drizzles onto my soul
Daring me to challenge this equation
That turns two pieces into one whole
I embrace a broken mirror
As I am claimed by torment beyond measure
Calling me to face the rigors of this legacy
But instead I run toward pathways of twisted pleasures
I am adrift on a raft...
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Categories:
senses, allegory, allusion, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
BlueBlue like the sky
And the beautiful waters
I feel as I could fly
Free from all horrors
Blue like the berries
Picked from the bushes
Eaten in my young days
My youth, where all the good is
Blue like the sorrow
That wallows inside
I dread tomorrow
Today will be my last night
Blue like the veins
I aim to slice down
Blue like the pain,
When no one’s...
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Categories:
blue, color, senses,
Form: Other
A High Fivefold DiveCount your fingers and toes!
It's five that drives betides!
For our minds can't juggle
More than five at once.
Can't grip, grasp sense - six.
How we sense and perceive,
Also comes in five flavors.
Touch, sight, smell, taste, hearing,
Which constrains, contorts our thoughts,
Into believing we know what's
Right, true, all so insightful!
But, why or why five?
Has ego, fear, doubt, desire
Succumbed to...
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Categories:
feelings, senses,
Form: Free verse
My Cherie AmourLa vie en rose - Seeing life through rose colored glasses
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
—My Cherie Amour, refrain, sung by Stevie Wonder
A song in my heart; we’ve all been blind to love,
until it appears. Love at first sight, sound, touch, scent
or taste. The masquerade is over; a song in my heart.
—quote by poet
My Cherie Amour
Smooth la-la’s embrace a mysterious...
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Categories:
love, mystery, senses,
Form: Free verse
Where does a tear comeThey are always considered be of pain
But do we not cry the water in emotion
A joyful time of moment pleasure is felt
Mucus oil or which three tears fall
But wet thou eye's of significant relief
Tear falls, washing your eyes even unfelt
Wash and drain the pipe or overflow face
Depending on...
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Categories:
creation, senses, wisdom,
Form: Imagism
monk modesensory delight
captivates our attention
negating the light of Self
be this as it may
as a nonchalant witness
we are free within the dream...
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Categories:
freedom, senses, sensual, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
stereo sensesowls sit in the dark and listen
for mammalian prey
tunneling
through deep snows
below the
trees
plunging, they seize
their next
meal
len
...
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Categories:
senses, beautiful, bird,
Form: Free verse
A singular Drop; That's All There WasI gaze upon an opaque silver sky,
Descending dewdrops, developing above the mustache maw.
Ascending the nape to taste cherubim cry,
Permeating petrichor, pervade the nasal in auspicious awe.
Palpable pain of tactile taps
Kissing canker sores and rainstorm rush.
Radically rampaging, for its rapid relapse
Rain, it's infinite, swirling fervor flush
To drown by an inundated impound,
A vehement, vicious, void that immersed,
Wandering...
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Categories:
senses, 11th grade, emotions, environment,
Form: Sonnet
Thought of the dayso many religious belief systems
fundamentalists screeching
the din is deafening
a gentle breeze blows
our skin is warmed by the sun
no wonder heart hums a love song
resting mind, we learn by direct touch...
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Categories:
religion, senses, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
In short, I've
I've loved half-faded flowers
on the better side of the road
and left my smile surrendered
in the heart of an untouched daisy
I've stared at the honey-moon
felt liquid stars drip their dreams
into the pupil of my eyes
and melted like lemon drops of sunlight
I've known love to burn inside the glow of
my wild fire and slowly drown deeper
into...
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Categories:
love, nature, passion, senses,
Form: Free verse
Aerial AcrobatsI watched the birds from afar, they swooped, and they soared right up high, then straight toward the ground,
They made me dizzy, with the patterns they made in swirling circles going around and around,
It was all so fast like a hair-raising race, with each bird desperate to not be last,
Were they friends just playing games...
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Categories:
senses, bird, dance, flying, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Breath of a Forgotten NightI don’t particularly remember it,
Yet when midnight whispers through the air,
—My heart aches.
A sudden hurt, a lonely ache,
As if the past is breathing near,
A moment lost, yet somehow known,
When the air smelled just like this,
And I was breaking too.
It feels like my heart is holding on,
Though my mind can’t trace the past.
Some feelings don’t need...
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Categories:
senses, deep, freedom, imagery, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Senses Poems
Definition | What is Senses in Poetry?
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