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Simple Words For Simple People
If I had those pretentious brains which act faster than this heart

maybe then I would abhore this soul which spreads freely through each verse

maybe then...

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Categories: on writing and words, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse



Who Am I
I am the ring around Saturn
spinning words as particles of ice and dust
with the power to transcend

I am the original chosen to be right here...

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© Humble B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on writing and words, black african american, faith,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Am But a Dreamer
I am but a dreamer
and in my dreams I play
where I live so happily
writing them my way
inside my illusions
where I know I belong
whistling a joyful...

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Categories: on writing and words, introspection, on writing and
Form: Light Verse
Haiku Versus Rhythm and Rhyme
My favourite pastime:
crafting poetry in rhyme
but not so this time

Ordered by Debbie:
from your comfy box break free
haiku it will be

Debbie, what's with you
to rhythm and...

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Categories: on writing and words
Form: Haiku
Where Poetry Lives
His  poems live deep down in the wood
down in an olde hunting lodge
They are brown as the bears head that 
hangs on the wall
brown...

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Categories: on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme



Lather, Rinse, Repeat
liberty in verse
atypical on the Soup

born a free-spirited caballero
I’ll not dangle
from another poet’s noose

jigsaw puzzles presented
by contest sponsors
jump through hoops
win their accolades

who’s to say what...

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Categories: on writing and words
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inside This Little Room
It's to the corner kids must sometimes go,
or to their room they're sent and kept alone.
Their freedom gone, they stare at walls and groan.
When time...

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Categories: on writing and words
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Ode To Poetry Critics (Co-Written With James Fraser)
Wipe that silly grin from your face, boy
I am a woman, but certainly not a wimp
Watch me roll with the punches, tough guy
It'll take more...

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Categories: on writing and words,
Form: Quatrain
Seductive Disarray
I didn't crumble or drift off into a fade...
I shrugged off goodbyes faster then they were made...
Watched as they were dipped and soaked in my...

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Categories: on writing and words, art, imagination, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reflections From a Toiling Sonneteer
One’s poetry not always will unfold
beneath its author’s pen as some suppose.
And poetry one is to yet behold
might slowly bloom before one plucks that rose.

At...

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Categories: on writing and words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dancing the Unicorn
Where fancy's flowers bloom, I go,
and music starts to play.
And when sweet words of beauty flow,
I dip and and weave and sway. . . 

Then...

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Categories: on writing and words, fantasy, on writing and
Form: Quatrain
Heart of Inspiration
I wonder if Poe could have known 
That his pain would bring him fame? 
His words would become his legacy 
So the world would know...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on writing and words
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Pen Collection
As the waves forever kiss the shore
One shot leaves you wanting more
My heart and soul, strong and true
With all the love they hold for you
Sometimes...

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Categories: on writing and words, devotion, faith, hope, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Poems As Butterflies
There
is a 
beauty in 
lucidity
when images are
wondrously concrete. . . a
butterfly’s opalescent
wings unfolded on a shiny 
leaf - not flitting about . . . ...

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Categories: on writing and words
Form: Etheree
Pledge of Love and Loyalty
This pledge that l,Ntando, make today serves
as my guideline that I shall follow
happily, ungrudgingly and tirelessly
for the sake of our love life.
Indeed l am well...

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Categories: on writing and words, anniversary, beauty, caregiving, christmas,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs