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Premium Member My Garden
...My garden is such a colourful sight,
with pretty roses and scented sweet peas.
An abundance of blooms, what pure delight!

Beautiful butterflies gently alight
on flowers dancing on the summe......

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Categories: 190, beauty, butterfly, flower, garden,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Letting Go- Over and Over
... 
Long ago when I was a child my sister died,
Everyday in grandmas arms I cried and cried;
Time ticked and grandma left and I had to say goodbye,
Then when my baby boy was born and he never s......

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Categories: 190, death, grief, life,
Form: Verse
Cattle Drive, Aussie Style
...Cattle Drive

Roll over a bit in me swag
Get some bones clear of the ground
Dew is on us swag cover is wet
Dingo is howling around

The cattle are camped in the corner 
The frogs are croaking......

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Categories: 190, adventuredog, dog, horse,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Echoing Vacant Sound
...Rising above the destitute land
Barren are the quiet hills now
Echoing terrain's vacant sound
There, where sweet home was.

Tree uprooted quivers gently
Its scattered mangled remains
Swaying a......

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Categories: 190, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Verse
Watercolors Wet
...The artist sighs with deep regret,
too late to stop, the colors wet,
greens and blues and purples met,
pollute and blur his raw sunset.

A baby stirs, begins to fret,
an athlete pauses, drenche......

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Categories: 190, allegory, angst, life
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Miso
...a first sip of miso soup
exotic and warm
forging a downward path
flowing like a life force
transporting me
as I close my eyes
to a timeless moment
sharing with countless kin
through the ages
......

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Categories: 190, life, people, time,
Form: Free verse



Fertile Crescent, Ii
...Fertile Crescent
Ghosts of pharaohs
Branded timeless in stone
Reigning order
Condemning the vilified,
as it is published by
The Royal Geographical Society:
Syria as the Gateway between East an......

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 190, war,
Form: Prose
Fertile Crescent, Iii
...Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience

The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed

Where early mans' dawn is, 
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me if
I ponti......

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 190, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
Premium Member - Haiku X 190 - Early Snow -
...downy snow crystals

                                 winter with courage and strength -

                                             a slippery porch







                            ......

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Categories: 190, nature, snow,
Form: Haiku
Riding Shotgun
...Speeding down the highway
I lament my life so far
and meanwhile Death is gleeful,
riding shotgun in my car.

So I crank up the volume,
speakers thrumming bass guitar,
but Death just seems to d......

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Categories: 190, allegory, angst, deathdeath, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Senryu - Forgiveness
... 
Lord when I am hurt
I am a dying flower-
s t r e n g t h  will be stronger

I will raise my head
and look at my tormentors-
w i s d o m   is wiser

I will FORGIVE those
who st......

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Categories: 190, forgiveness,
Form: Senryu
The Boy Who Cried German
...*The Boy Who cried German*

  Although Ikeh was as nervous as ever he still gathered a little guts to address those sluts. He always did walk around in a jumpsuit like that suitor who visits Bisi e......

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Categories: 190, 10th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: ABC
50 Words For Poe: St John
...
"50 Words for Poe: St John"




St John was his name
Sinjun for short
Temptation was his game

Ah Black Monk of my dreams
A hot car on a fast ......

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Categories: 190, car, dark, mystery, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Messerschmitt Death Machine
...from AEROPLANE POEMS 
              
BY NICK ARMBRISTER
ISBN: 978-1-4452-2045-1

MESSERSCHMITT DEATH MACHINE
Yankee terror bombers fly overhead to bomb our cities and our military targets.     ......

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Categories: 190, death, history, war, ,
Form: Free verse
Words of Wisdom
...Being a man is more than just being male.
And for those who disagree, just listen.
Who are you to tell a woman that she doesn’t look beautiful?
When did it become- bigger breasts safer sex, skinny gi......

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Categories: 190, visionary, women, words,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things