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Premium Member - Haiku X 160 - Romantic Tree -
magnolias tree

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Categories: 160, beauty, romance, tree,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member His Star-Dusted Desire
He wonders

at the aphrodisiac of her jasmine air
stirring the breeze of his being
heady in the breathy mood of her moon garden
amidst stargazer’s pink whispers

and he...

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Categories: 160, beauty, desire, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stardust
Stardust

The wonders of the stars tonight
Have sprinkled stardust in your hair.
In indigo of new moon light
The wonders of the stars tonight
Instill with beauty my delight
To...

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Categories: 160, romantic, stars,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Devoutly Walk In True Grace With the Lord
Devoutly walk in true grace with the Lord,
Thy will never witness fall of darkness.
Fulfillment of love lull a rich reward
Devoutly walk in true grace with...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 160, inspiration,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Timeless
I hold you in memory,
like a flaming star that etched the night sky,
before vanishing in darkness
Leaving nothing, but a vision burned in the eyes,
long after...

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Categories: 160, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sensational Summer Sky
Rich marmalade clouds, sunset fades, 
rooks dip and dive on thermals high; 
wings flutter as the flock cascades. 
Rich marmalade clouds, sunset fades 
with golden...

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Categories: 160, sky, summer,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member The Gardener
 "Horticulture is a groping in the dark
into the obscure and unfamiliar " James Tate,
from his poem, The Definition Of Gardening
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There is an art to...

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Categories: 160, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Winter Lonely Fallows Deeply Dream
There Winter Lonely Fallows Deeply Dream


Long after that ripe golden sunset gleam
Cool silvery tones, wavering light;
Then winter lonely fallows deeply dream
Into the grayish ghostliness of...

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Categories: 160, appreciation, art, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Violin and Guitar
countless years of toil took toll on his health,
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Categories: 160, loneliness, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Pearls On Curls of Tress
The twilight cloud drizzles pearls on you,
pristine patina flows on curls of tress ebony,
rave rapture drenches me, you’ve no clue.
The twilight cloud drizzles pearls on...

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Categories: 160, beautiful, hair, imagery, rain,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Time and Scraping Shovels
There is a loud sharp scraping of shovels,
digging another grave;
this a daily event in the graveyard,
oh, death comes like a wave.
When our life time has...

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Categories: 160, death, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - I Am the Lion - Who Are You -
King of the animales! 
This is the easiest way to describe a lion 
It likes to bask in their brilliance 
Lions are big cats with...

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Categories: 160, animal, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The California Condor

Ten thousand years ago he roamed free
He was king of the sky on both coasts
Now his kind is just clinging to life
Only about 160 birds...

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Categories: 160, animals, loss
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Two Guys I Worked With - Gone Now
Charlie. I worked with Charlie for 14 years. He was a little older than me, did the same job. Sure had the "highs and lows"...

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Categories: 160, death, life, sick, work,
Form: Prose
Cliques
As I see it. When a child is in school if they are shunned the blame lies with the teacher first and the principal secondly.

As...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 160, friendship,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things