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Premium Member Fires of Imagination 150
the pulse of a beating heart...

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Categories: 150, imagery, inspirational, sound,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Escaping the Medusa
This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 150, death, sea,
Form: Narrative
I Am Bored With Poetrysoup
I am bored with Poetrysoup

Premier Poetry website rekindled my poetic talent 
Veterans loved my work and inspired to showcase talent
But soon got entangled in Members...

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Categories: 150, introspectionpoems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Extinction Is Forever
He wakes as sun surrenders to nightfall;
emitting a haunting howl, he rises to prowl.
Bright amber eyes fixate on sources of nourishment. 

Leaving his protected den...

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Categories: 150, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soulfulness

I found my soulfulness

at an early age. My depth

of spirit, creativity, self awareness

is free flowing.  In written words, deep

inspired poetry allows touching

emotions to be....

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Categories: 150, introspection, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Day I Remember
Age six- I remember outside
I saw something great I could ride
We just had moved in
Can still feel my grin
When this big surprise I had eyed!

Beside...

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Categories: 150, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member ''sweet Rain''
Oh, the sweet drumming of rain and tapping of raindrops,
the great loud thunder, and whispering, swishing,
. . . . . . splashing of cars;
cleansing the...

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Categories: 150, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Contests
To post a poem is not a marathon*
   when entered in a contest to be placed-
but rather there for others urged upon
 ...

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Categories: 150, how i feel, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
Winter Rain
A bleak morning, I waken
To relentless rain.
Drops pearl the redbuds.

Broken branches beckon
With slimy fingers.

A deserted nest perches
In the plum tree;
Black and wet, it does not
Remember...

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Categories: 150, nature, rain, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boredom
If there’s something that will drive me crazy
And if there’s something that makes me insane
It’s just boredom that will put me in shame

Boredom only offers...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 150, how i feel,
Form: Blank verse
Psalms: Book 6 151:1-10
*I love David's Psalms and wrote this as if he did (I did not copy this). There are 5 books and 150 Psalms in the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 150, god,
Form: Verse
Coyote Full of Secrets Deep and Dark Pt1
The medicine man lifted up a  baby girl 
To the heavens like a cherished rare pearl
He called upon the gods to send a spirit
To...

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Categories: 150, imagination, mystery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member P S It's Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 9
P S IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 9


Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers...

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Categories: 150, analogy, community, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleeting
Where does time go
transient
a fleeting gust of air
non retrievable
a whirlwind in a mirror
fragmented shattered
unforgettable memories
unforgivable regrets
a circular menagerie
slow motion
rewind
replay
a vortex of emotions



Published in my 24-page...

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Categories: 150, appreciation, life, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journal Entry - May 31
I have been doing a lot of thinking
      'cause to the past I am clinging
and pondering who exactly I am
...

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Categories: 150, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs