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Premium Member Dancing With Death
A raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstain, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Under the Surface
Mind cannot comprehend, it finds it strange,
when ignorance reigns in human exchange.
Wonder if some people will ever change,
or wish to remain in the firing range.

I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstain, anti bullying, judgement, political,
Form: Sonnet
-farewell My Beautiful Being-
to all who know and love,
      and who may not know at all,
i have told tales of adoring loss
and romance...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstain, appreciation, goodbye, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Nirveda
Nirveda (sansk.) - aversion to existence

"The existent there is no cessation". Bhagavat Gita, 2.16



Addicted to existence, I may slain
or, maybe, they may slain me. I...

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Categories: abstain, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
I Lay My Head
I lay my head  upon the softness of its mane
My white charger, no knight for a swain
as I am the gallant rider looking for love.
Riding...

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Categories: abstain, horse, love,
Form: Rondeau



Remnants
Sad Heart, now thou art wither’d from the Sun,
What man, or god, will near thee run?
Wrought in twist like branches in Tempests' gasp,
What Comfort, or...

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Categories: abstain, allegory, angst, confusion, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Highveld Storm
Oh Aphrodite! Mother of my two pearls
Venus of my night sky
Commander of my world

I fell for you like a comet
I burnt for you like Mars
Abide...

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Categories: abstain, break up, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Sadness
"I don’t think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains."
Anne Frank

My heart does mourn looking through windows pane,
As my eyes adorn the...

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Categories: abstain, beauty, love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Life of the Party
Rising
sprawled
amid the carcasses
of demons quelled
strewn
like soldiers slain
spent munitions
drained of all their fire
their bloodshed pooled
puddles
of watered down
egos and woes

glisten

in the morning light

as hangover destined
in reflection
one half...

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Categories: abstain, addiction, drink,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tearful
Written: March 07, 2024 For Constance La France Contest  

Quote by Rumi  "You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows....

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstain, funeral, sad,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Vamperic Prayer-Dracula's Oath
In the name of blood, for it is the source of life itself,
Plasma's crimson essence of liquid infusion, to the undead's
Pulsating heart.
Intravenously feeding cravings passion,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstain, dark, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Country Song Gone All Wrong
I want so bad in Casarah’s pants
She said I had to offer up some romance
Off we went to a local dance
I bought her a flower,...

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Categories: abstain, adventure, evil, gothic, humorous,
Form: Ballad
Oh Beautiful Gypsy
Oh beautiful Gypsy,
I see you there, in amber campfire mist.
On the banks of a crystalline pool, a bronze skinned lovely moving with intoxicating rhythm to...

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Categories: abstain, beauty, celebration, leaving, longing,
Form: Free verse
In Twenty Four Hours
In twenty four hours life can drastically change.....

One moment blissfully happy walking on cloud nine
Thinking life is beautiful and wonderful, oh so divine
Then something happens...

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Categories: abstain, angst, hope, life, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rainbow Nation
Rainbow Nation

Blanca is white like beautiful snow in the Drakensberg Mountains
              ...

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Categories: abstain, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs