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Premium Member Indian Ink
INDIAN INK

Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow

A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...

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Categories: verse, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Broken People
I wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...

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Categories: verse, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: verse, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Twilight Aurora
Like an interrupted dream
shadows of the one 
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.

No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, absence, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sowing
Upon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.

At years...

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Categories: verse, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...

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Categories: verse, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: verse, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Not Merely Poets
Some of us are secretive at first. We hide our poetry’s soul self, 
gently letting her peep out; sometimes regretting it immediately.
Fearful of critiques from...

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Categories: verse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Petal
Pink and perfect mystery 
to which I ply my finger, 
she ripens so exquisitely
the longer that I linger

and fluff the modest blossom
with my gentle loving...

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Categories: love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Conversation With My Soul
Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Alice Sweet Alice
~Alice Sweet Alice~

        *Like Sisters*
   Everyday -- Holding Hands 
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
  ...

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Categories: verse, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Smile Appeared
Silently, I sat by,
To listen to the sounds of the world,
Of all the voices that touched me most,
Were those caught in the angelic wind,
For all...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glory of Her Magnificence
Oceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.

Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, change, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

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