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Premium Member Of Ink
Partial Paper
 -A poet in heat-

Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...

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Categories: split, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: split, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: split, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion
It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: split, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative
Dusty Old Books
A book that I plucked
from an antiquity of books
filled my nostrils
with a smell that I will always know
and always love.
This love cannot be explained,
but neither...

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Categories: split, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Flower -Part One-
“A Flowers Wilt”	

Witness the small existence 
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.

A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...

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Categories: split, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Passion
you                 don't            know 


my                  ...

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Categories: split, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guardian Angel
Just a small girl, an innocent rose bud
lost in daydreams while she walked
home from school, for several blocks.

It was a fine, spring day in Berkeley
warm...

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Categories: split, angel, child, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: split, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When He Came
I waited for him as the soldier comes
With a beating of drums and trumpet call;
But he arrived instead with a quiet tread
That my ears never...

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Categories: split, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Haiku About a Haiku
toriawase – 

split by a caesura

a rose and her scent

- - - - - - - - - - - - - -...

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Categories: split, flower, poetry,
Form: Haiku
The Last Organ Grinder
Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Categories: split, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Butt Crack
My butt crack 
Is quite a split 
It supports the rest of me 
when I sit 
you thought I was gonna say something else didn't...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: split, funny, happiness, life, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Came By
I Came By…
(to see you)

You don’t see me. 
I see you, everyday. 
I am afraid to say hello. 
You may say good-bye. 

I just want...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: split, beautiful, chocolate, cinderella, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: split, food,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs