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Before Easter
A late March thundershower floats toward me Like a plucked flower Handed over on a walk to a lover With a smile Down this afternoon path That breezes past Spring-born ponds Erupting Of Peepers ululating and Chorus Frogs ratcheting In a wave of Gnawa music. The surface Puckers Diacritic raindrops Slowly Softly Each plop and their purple ripple Has not enough splash To generate an echo From the reedy shore. The storm not so...

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Categories: before, beauty, earth, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before the world awakens
i prefer to do my dancing while the city sleeps it's when out of the depths a burning melody calls to me it reaches in and touches me playing my heart like an old piano and at its whim it moves me to the rhythm of a childhood carousel AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on May 2, 2025...

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Categories: before, dance, music, sleep, solitude,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member a moment before
I'm shaking ~ just waiting my cloud of distraction dissipating a test of my strength ~ culminating throat closes but not too far eyes blink slower ...

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Categories: before, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The moments before a nice day
Spin the plates, spin the plates, spin the plates If anything hits the fan... No Spin the plates, spin the plates, spin the plates It will all fall down... No Breathe. No. Yes.... One step at a time (into oblivion) Further in, further in, further in I will rattle this breath into my lungs if it kills me (That's the spirit) Just take...

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Categories: before, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member But You've Heard All This Before
She fell into his arms, so sweet He swept her off her glass-slippered feet But you’ve heard all this before They climbed into a golden carriage Where he took her hand,...

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Categories: before, humor, marriage, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Rhyme



before we and after'd
. i told thuh world 'bout you ...

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Categories: before, beautiful, blessing, paradise,
Form: Romanticism
Because We Are Before And Now
Because we have all the leading roles See, you and I are sitting in the same row Even if our roads are separate See, you're walking, and I'm walking beside you. Because we have separate homes See, we still see each other often You in other block, mine next to you See, you're cooking, I smell the food. Because we are friends so...

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Categories: before, family, friendship, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
before I do
She says she likes me, yet I don't like myself I've yet to be the man of my dreams, yet such to aspire Not one to keep promises to himself The one without peace behind his eyes, an unquenched fire. Waking up unproud of the way of life, wishing to go higher Yet she likes who I am, while I...

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Categories: before, conflict, for her,
Form: Free verse
The bloom before the fall
As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew Anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath a tinted sky of April blue Flight of fancy fanning fast, fabulous marvel, she is beauty true on true But beauty cannot shield...

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Categories: before, butterfly, heartbreak,
Form: Couplet
Before The Seat Was Taken
The room was still when Power knocked— not loud, not proud, but sure. The Chair sat waiting, velvet-backed, untouched, and made to endure. The walls had yet to learn the weight of promises unkept. The carpet, clean—untrampled still— knew nothing of secrets swept. The pen was full, the desk was clear, the seal uncracked, unswayed. The nation...

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Categories: before, 9th grade, absence, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before Poetry
Whatever did I do to wile away my time Before poetry took over my brain Walked around staring blankly into space Burping and expelling methane Really no direction I was truly a lost soul The word 'zombie' enters my mind But now I'm alive and cooking with gas Rhyming away line after line Friends all say, “knock that stuff off!” Love to but my...

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Categories: before, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before your voice is lost in the silence that fills the once-shared space
Before your voice is lost in the silence that fills the once-shared space, leave behind not just your absence, but the glow of your kindness like a gentle light, a silent ray that will forever linger in the corners of my heart, unforgotten. May the touch of your hand or the too-brief embrace leave its mark, let your eyes...

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Categories: before, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
She’s Been Here Before
Once green and firm, she danced, on the boughs edge. Whirling and dipping, through the breezes, of changing seasons. She basked, in hot summer suns. Rejoicing in the adulation, heaped upon her, as she selfishly, provided shade, and shelter to all who sought it. Asking for nothing, needing no one. Autumn days, stroked her ego, into maturity. transforming her, into the envy of artists and poets, sages and prophets, wise...

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Categories: before, death, life, political,
Form: Free verse
Old Before New
Every day once a while I could see the construction of a new building going by, It proceeds slow enough to make some innocent birds mistake it for an abandoned shelter; They have begun building their refuge on its dusty window sills, lovingly nurturing it to become permanent, giving their everything....

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Categories: before, allusion, childhood, city, heart,
Form: Free verse
Before you leave the world tonight
Before you leave the world tonight, I want to tell you a story, a story about a girl who wanted to end her life. She tried to leave the world one night, but stopped when she saw this beam of light. She wrestled with her mind and remembered the life she was leaving behind....

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Categories: before, bible, bullying, conflict, daffodils,
Form: Free verse

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