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Premium Member - Haiku X 120 - An Ocean of Flowers -
Church bells and bluebells
Sparkling dew on the flowers
Celebrate birthday

The bees are buzzing
With golden crowns bright and fine
The birds are singing










A colorful floral greeting to you...

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Categories: 120, birthday, flower, friend,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Queen of Dance
From far they come and watch,
to see if they're her match.
How they wish for a chance,
to sway the queen of dance.

In awe they watch her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 120, dance, love, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sitting In the Dark, With Darkness Covering Me
Sitting In The Dark, With Darkness Covering Me

Sitting in the dark, hearing voices in the hall
remembering my many lovers, one and all.
Some that sent my...

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Categories: 120, conflict, dark, deep, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Got Your Message
65 minutes reduced to 120 seconds

Bright lit room
White glossy tone with flowery curtains
Upon window's darkened vision

Your radiance emanated in celebratory gesture
As my eyes fell in...

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Categories: 120, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rose By Any Other Name ---
Through the hushed whisper of the breeze
Flowing through the majestic circling pine trees
I sense that I have stepped
Into a sacred hallowed space

A GARDEN OF ROSES

A...

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Categories: 120, beauty, humanity, love, peace,
Form: Ode



Not Enough Love
Oh, she was my best friend,
           who was she in the end?	
So much time filled...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 120, sister, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flying Scotsman 1939
From Edinburgh’s Waverley to Kings Cross
At journey's rest before terminating chaos,
Winding through the serene countryside
Spying a glimpse of the North Sea tide,
Rolling along in my...

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Categories: 120, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Forgotten Angel
A FORGOTTEN ANGEL

Who was she?  They wondered
No one knew her name
Where did she live?  They wondered
No one ever saw her playing
How old was...

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Categories: 120, angel, anger, betrayal, child
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quintessential Placeholders
Yin/Yang
Ch'ang as "Constant"
natural law of growth and decay
yanging and yinning,
logically necessary alternation of opposites
universally permacultural law: exterior nature as inner conscience communicant
Interior Landscape of eco-Ch'ang...

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Categories: 120, culture, language, math, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Door
Noah’s ark was real not a fiction
It had a door to escape God’s affliction
Noah delivered a warning message
But the folks mock their own presage

Men grew...

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Categories: 120, character, christian, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Show Me the Way Home (He's Coming Back) Pt.1
My Bros.' & Sister's the [Book] tell us that we are made in the image of God, made
in the likeness of him.  So why...

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Categories: 120, happiness, uplifting, me, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Origin of Christianity
Origin of Christianity

(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)

It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary...

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Categories: 120, bible, christian, faith, history,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Lady Autumn
Lady Autumn lies - discarded now.
Left alone - her stick- like bones
are lying under trees where they have blown. 
Fiery colors of her verdant dresses...

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Categories: 120, endurance, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Can Deep Folly, Abject Blindness Banish Hope, Part Three
How Can Deep Folly, Abject Blindness Banish Hope
   (How Easily We Are Deceived, Hope Lost)


I recall darkness, creeping edges of power
ease of entry...

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Categories: 120, art, character, conflict, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Detainee
Can you remember who you were before the world told you who to be?
reminiscing on elementary, high school, college, was that really me?
they say you...

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Categories: 120, america, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs