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What Makes It Rain
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Mike Gentile
| Free verse |
abates, life, rain,
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Bliss in Solitude
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Michelle Faulkner
| Rhyme |
abates, silence, solitude, wisdom,
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UPON NIGER BRIDGE
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Bolaji Kingsley Ogunbiyi
| Lyric |
abates, anger,
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my mother and bambi
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jan hansen
| Blank verse |
abates, africa, betrayal, birthday, blue,
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Loverina
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Avian Hughes
| Ballad |
abates, longing, love, memory,
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IN RETREAT
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Brian Strand
| Verse |
abates, anxiety, peace,
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Waves of fear
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Steve Eaton
| Rhyme |
abates, fantasy, sea, storm,
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EIGHT ELEMENTS OF WINTER
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Brian Strand
| Imagism |
abates, imagery, winter,
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Hot Summer Ecstasy
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Mike Gentile
| Free verse |
abates, city, fun, summer, water,
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NATURE AT WORK
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Brian Strand
| Tanka |
abates, bird, nature, winter,
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Last Bet
by Kurt Philip Behm
Waiting to die,
he took one last card
Waiting to die,
the dealer stared hard
Waiting to die,
his wager was late
Waiting to die,
...
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Categories:
abates, fear,
Storm Comes Goes
by John Anderson
Clouds rock up vengeful
mouthing off - ranting, raging
spitting bolts willy-nilly
But tantrum passes,
temper abates with mutters
as clouds roll on by, in sky.
Clouds rubbed, get charged up
like...
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Sedoka |
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Categories:
abates, storm,
Home is Where
by Dermott Hayes
Home is Where
Home is where
your first and lost loves linger
the scent of Cusson’s Imperial Leather
and lavender, like a silken scarf
curls and twines around your head,
her...
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Categories:
abates, growing up, home, memory,
TRUST ME BABY THIS IS LOVE
by Kim Rodrigues
At dusk, his eyes, dark brown. At once I melt.
Again, and yet again, with each sweet kiss.
Bright stars! He’s asked to marry me. He knelt,
With...
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Categories:
abates, proposal,
The Swing
by Joseph Soper
Gentle sway with breeze
Seat’s heat abates, laughter fades
Aestival evening
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Haiku |
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Categories:
abates, summer, sunset,
VENEREAL VIRGIN
by Kim Rodrigues
VENEREAL VIRGIN
Inviolable virgin so fair, pure - pomp and circumstance.
Flexible ballerina doll, toes always pointed - free lance.
Sparkle and shine from your Rapunzle-tower.
Your courageous father...
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Categories:
abates, fate, hate, lust, metaphor,
Goodbye
by Ralph Sergi
GOODBYE
Goodbye to all the sins I saved
and enter anew but more depraved
Transgress against love for it will not cure
My enmity of the pure of heart
My...
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Categories:
abates, introspection,
ALMOST HOME
by Sidney Beck
ALMOST HOME
. . . . . the feeling of getting close to home,
easy waves, rounding the point into Conception Bay after Baccalieu’s...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
abates, home,
The Sleep Talking Dilemma
by Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Dilemmas that sleep talkers must face,
Their subconscious thoughts are mumbled aloud.
Dreams with reality can interface.
Not anyone with this problem is proud.
Talking in one’s sleep could...
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Categories:
abates, dream, sleep, words,
Ode to a Coffee Cup
by Janice Canerdy
There you sit, my Love,
holding nectar from above,
strong and rich and hot.
More awaits me in the pot!
Your serum lures me;
from my ennui, it...
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abates, drink, love,
The Mind Body Connection
by Betty Janko
As years go on, old age will beckon
Beckon you, live life in a different way.
Way in which your old body operates
Operates as it often begins...
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abates, age, life,
The Truth Remains
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
When the darkness dies
with every morning sunrise
always the truth remains
When the murky skies
of deception and lies
are made clear by winds of levity
Then all the smoggy...
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Categories:
abates, christian, religion, religious, spiritual,
Chivalry's Last Stand
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
I stand in defense of decorum and civility
Spirited debates over a cup of tea
I'm a staunch supporter of the art of statesmanship
To be worthy of...
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Categories:
abates, courage, devotion, passion, war,
One Brief Moment
by john fleming
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:
abates, imagery, nostalgia,
Haibun |
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Categories:
abates, rain,
LIVE WIRE
by Kim Rodrigues
LIVE WIRE
Fire snaps its fingers, a spark, a hiss, live wire,
Intent to spread, to blaze. thus ruin. transgress.
RESOUND… the spread of lava blood grows...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
abates, fire,
Under the Stars of Heaven: Answer Me
by Lin Lane
Mystic Rose's Poem
Stars Are Our Link To The Great Beyond And God Himself
I watch the splendor of a shooting star
and breathe the beauty of...
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Categories:
abates, god, stars,
The secret lives of chimney pots I
by john fleming
Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
Outlying greenland bounds,
Jostled apex ridges detach...
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Categories:
abates, philosophy,
Barnabas Collins
by Dorian Petersen Potter
~ Barnabas Collins~
(Free Verse)
They visit me here though they think me dead,
They all think me a long time gone.
The mausoleum is quiet, with only...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abates, character, dark, evil, film,
END OF LIFE
by Teppo Gren
SONNET – END OF LIFE
Fore'er without the pain, always apart,
As now with absent cast of yearning eyes.
Time's lonely quest to heal a wounded heart,
With destined...
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Categories:
abates, death, loneliness, lost love,