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Premium Member Beginnings and Endings
Birth was suppose to come much easier than this.
Panting quickly as I was taught, 
the pain dissolves my gallant front
and tears have come from eyes...

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Categories: endings, baby, birth, death, mother,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse
Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse
are painted on walls of green.
A maple crib stands in the corner.
It's a picture perfect scene.

There is only one thing...

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Categories: endings, baby, death, grief, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before and Beyond the Bed
When 
When did a bed become your prison
I see your strength absorbed
Absorbed by the mattress 
I turn you
Trying to prevent sores
Who would have thought soft...

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Categories: endings, hope,
Form: Free verse
Like You
Like you ...

I dream of drifting away on a sunny day
high above the cottony stuffed clouds
I'll glide erasing all the hurtful feeling inside 
a season...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: endings, art, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Nook and a Storybook
Oh, give me a nook and a storybook
there at my mother’s knee.
Or tucked in bed, a pillow at my head
as father reads to me.

To hear...

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Categories: endings, books, cute, memory,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Loveliness On a Hill
I must have encountered her on a hill,
Where scatterings of ferns deepened
Through insolent winds that shivered
While watching her carry a basket of daisies…
She is Loveliness,...

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Categories: endings, beauty, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caring For My Mother - a Letter To a Loving Friend
I sit here alone...wondering...how much longer this...and in hearing 
the question a silent icy fear blankets my body...the answer would 
come wearing both masks...tragedy...comedy...this is my life....

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Categories: endings, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In the Seventies
I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying...

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Categories: endings, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Forever In a Portrait of Love
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“Pristine your pose, exposed artistic allure” 

Canvas on easel waits patiently,
naked in formless thought
Inviting rapture’s brush strokes

“White on white destined pleadings”

Visions engulf watercolor yearnings
blending passion’s...

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Categories: endings, art, beauty, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quenching My Thirst For Knowledge
As I sat thinking the other day,
A flow of thoughts brought these words to say.
Some were fleeting, some longer lasting, 
Like the evening shadows the...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: endings, discrimination, education, introspection, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Follow Me
When streams of paper roses,
bleed bitter fragrances,
evil mists of leaves slowly fall,
drifting along autumnal 
breeze of yesterdays.

And i question
unseen dirt trapped
between sharpened thorns:
what if the...

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Categories: endings, dark, deep, feelings, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interlude
“Interludes of romance are the brief sweetest moments of one’s life until they finish. The endings can be the most bittersweet of one’s life.” -quote...

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Categories: endings, loneliness,
Form: Verse
Unfinished Love Affair
Unfinished Love Affair

It's been so long since I've seen you.
Don't know how or why you remain,
At the forefront of my memory,
But you do and will always remain.
 
Time has passed, and...

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Categories: endings, divorce, hurt, repetition, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: endings, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: endings, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs