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Premium Member Transmutation
"we woke up early one morn, ego shorn
it felt as though we were in form reborn
nodes within stirred, boundaries blurred
our head and heart, with love...

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Categories: spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member Dark Rainstorm
The chaotic cadence of falling rain
begins striking the pavement in evening's hours.
Up on the roof I hear the steady gain

of drops as sprinkling now becomes...

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Categories: dark, imagery, rain,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Amethyst Fate
Bluebells in chime are shadows in training,
beech trees rising in a sheltering sky.
Sunlight peeks through, the merest of raining,
to guide the mauve buds to darkness...

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Categories: flower, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member The Art Beyond the Arbor
Oh, Nature’s spree, your artistic scene exceeds!
Quaint the plash of paints upon the frilly bloom  
hued with sunrise splash in skies as night recedes,...

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Categories: art, autumn, beauty, flower,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member White Angels
How many roses since have come and gone?
he thought as he sat looking at her grave.
How many futures had been staked upon
those brilliant blooms to...

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Categories: death, lost love, moving
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member Body ails yet spirit soars
Freezing in the midst of hostile ice monsoon
triggering aching woes beneath blood and bones,
I search for a quilt woven in sanguine rune
silken feathers of clementine...

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Categories: deep, hope, rain,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Song For My Love, My Sweet
"A woodland path in the dappled sun, hushed and quiet "

At last you’ve come for me, my love, my sweet!
You’ve come through tranquil woodland, with...

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Categories: passionheart, heart,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Houston
Houston

I wonder if the summer rain was warm
that poured like Pharaoh’s plagues upon the town
as people waded from their homes in swarms
and small craft was...

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Categories: rain, storm,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Kissing Snowflakes
Like ballerinas airdropped from on high, 
Snowflakes pirouette to damask the air, 
Tutued geometries dimpling the sky, 
Veil our stinging eyes with arabesque fair. 
Downy...

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Categories: beauty, imagery, kiss, romantic,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member With Joy Overflowing
Romance is in bloom when it's new and sweet

like rose buds opening. Love is growing!

The flutter feeling each time that you meet;

the kisses and the...

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Categories: love,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Swimming with sharks
In times where eyes are fixated at your sins, 
judgment trolls in deceptive double standards. 
When pointing fingers nobody really wins, 
there's no joy in...

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Categories: judgement,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member The Signs of Spring For Me
I’m looking forward as I always do
to springtime -when the robin’s trills I hear
which come from trees which years ago we grew.
They bloom in early...

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Categories: spring,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Serenity Sings--A Lullaby for Earth
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In the hush of twilight, serenity sings,
its voice, a whisper in the wind that brings
a melody soothing, a tune so mild,
wrapping the world in comfort,...

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Categories: silence, song, stars,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Kiss Me Quiet
It's near midnight, whilst we moonlight walk
Palm tree lined fairway, Crickets singing
Hands clenched in loving vacationed talk
Hearts in wanting pound, Batangas is bringing
We, she and...

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Categories: beauty, holiday, i miss
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member The Morning Mist
The morning's mists
mix with the
woodland's scent
To fill me with such
wondrous happiness;
I see her wet but
gentle hands are
bent
And reaching out to
touch with
loveliness
The trees, and fills
my heart...

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Categories: happiness, life, metaphor, tree,
Form: Ottava rima

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