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One Brief Moment
Look...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...

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Categories: rare, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



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: rare, change, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: rare, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member She Touched the Water
She Touched The Water

My muse
touched the waters
of a spring fed river
She had a special gift to deliver
Releasing the inspiration 
from deep within her
She said “...

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Categories: rare, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starry, Starry Night
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT

I often look up towards the sky at night,
And wonder who or what is there,
I shout out loud, if you see or hear...

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Categories: rare, night, stars, universe,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Doors
There are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues

Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...

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Categories: rare, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: rare, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joined By Words
~ for my fellow poets ~


as slaves to the pen
or our keyboard, more apt
this molding of words
in a word, holds us rapt

fine fancies or fears
take...

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Categories: rare, appreciation, friendship, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
One Square Mile
In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one...

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Categories: rare, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rare, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: rare, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dancing With Mom
When I was just a wee one
          my mom taught me to dance
   ...

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Categories: rare, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member They Told Me You Cried
They told me you cried on the day I died
A sob splintering through a silent dome
Your sorrow a shroud on the catacomb
As I laid where...

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Categories: rare, lost love, recovery from,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Distinct Ballet
I've thrown my quill in quiet rage
   sometimes, when mocked by empty page.
I read such vibrant poetry 
  in awe, and ask...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rare, butterfly, poetry, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Narwhal Song
~The Narwhal Beckons Before Dawn~

   If I could sing a song,
   It wouldn't be just any song.
   I would...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rare, abuse, character, dance, deep,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs