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Premium Member - Haiku X 140 - His Territory -
ignorance is bliss

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Categories: 140, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member With Divining Heart I Could Have Foreseen
With Divining Heart I Could Have Foreseen

With true divining heart I could have seen
little ripples of thy deep discontent.
My heart a meadow, once lush and...

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Categories: 140, art, break up, growing
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Emerald Forests
Emerald Forests

Emerald forest hiding from man's curse
if found, its never better , always worse.
Wretched destroyers we are in this abode
in our arrogance we are firmly...

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Categories: 140, art, creation, green, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Wander the Desert Alone
Aimlessly I meander in expansive barren-landscape
Whipped by the assault of rustling windy gales
Embossing sandy designs resembling ocean waves
Simulating pools of water in mirage of seascapes.

Plateaus...

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Categories: 140, imagery, metaphor, nature, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: 140, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member From Sea, Earth and Sky, All the In Betweens
From Sea, Earth And Sky, All The In Betweens

So sweet, splashing waves of Spring's fawning crest
beauty dear sent at Nature's kind behest,
vivid sprouting colors, its...

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Categories: 140, color, earth, nature, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member She Wore Blue Dress, Flowers Her Laurel Crown
She Wore Blue Dress, Flowers Her Laurel Crown
 
She had only soft blue skies and romance
Attending angels at her beck and call
A golden life, with...

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Categories: 140, appreciation, art, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In a Darkened Attic Room
In A Darkened Attic Room

In attic room, one window tightly shut,
Dwells broken heart hidden from future pain.
Bare as a savage brute's dark, empty hut-
Condemned to...

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Categories: 140, art, dark, depression, evil,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Under Moldy Soil, Red Moon Overhead
Under Moldy Soil, Red Moon Overhead

Under moldy soil, red moon overhead
lay millions of corpses, wars wasted dead
No bands playing, no sweet angels singing
only ghostly echoes,...

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Categories: 140, art, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Recall Mockingbirds Singing To Me
I Recall Mockingbirds Singing To Me

My life now so far away in the past
resting back in that glowing red sunset;
in lost memories where dreams always...

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Categories: 140, bird, blessing, creation, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Keeps Me Young and On My Toes
Keeps Me Young And On My Toes

Some may ask why I have not bit the dust
or found that cave to hide my sad sorrows.
I'm old...

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Categories: 140, addiction, appreciation, art, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Double Chained Sonnets, Nature's Beauty, Our Vanity So Shames
Double Chained Sonnets, Nature's Beauty, Our Vanity So Shames

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Nature's Beauty, Our Vanity So Shames

Nature, deepest  hues set to color life
life its temptations, bringing moral...

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Categories: 140, appreciation, beauty, creation, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Born To Walk, a Dark Path of Jagged Stones
Born To Walk, A Dark Path Of Jagged Stones

Born to walk, a dark path of jagged stones
too oft full of mistakes and ragged moans,
lone flying...

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Categories: 140, art, creation, deep, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love Fruits, Passion's Meals On Which I Once Sup
Love Fruits, Passion's Meals On Which I Once Sup

When I ponder my life, its fleeing years-
Youth with its blessings and its cold dark fears;
Wandering through...

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Categories: 140, appreciation, art, bird, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Unique Job
It was very hard for me growing up
As had to raise my two months old cousin.
Me! An adult at the age of six, yup.
After three...

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Categories: 140, life,
Form: Sonnet

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