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Premium Member dear Gustav -
oh ...

Gustav, how you pique the senses
          captured passion's plural tenses

lovers twined in percale folds
 ...

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Categories: abstractions, art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis



Long Forsaking
Faraway, across a widening 
Expanse of vacant fields,
Dawns slated light is gradually 
Awaking;
And too soon new Morn's stilled 
Indifference 
Determinedly steals
Into the abstractions  of...

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Categories: abstractions, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: abstractions, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep Beneath the Ocean
The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal...

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Categories: abstractions, deep, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starry Night
Over the Rhone,
web of light sewn;
eyes of night’s wonder,
God’s own plunder.

Reflections mirror
the heaven’s splendor.
A magical river,
love it delivers.

A walk on the banks,
amid glowing ranks;
romantic attractions,
vibrant...

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Categories: abstractions, appreciation, art, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse



Gamble
Rife with abstractions, and still just listening;
Leaning on pages, the night keeps glistening.
Ripping at seams, no intentions of fixing
As leaks spring up in the darkness...

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Categories: abstractions, introspection
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blocked Drains
My poor heart aches as my mind cogitates
upon the deep desires of my dark soul,
and searching for profound truths that can be
expressed in mystic subtle...

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Categories: abstractions, angst,
Form: Free verse
Retirement
Retirement
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Stop working now
For a hopeless boss
Who gives you no hope
That nine-to-five grind
Is over now
Retirement
Exit and excite
Up up and away
Banjo your mango
Man goes
Peddle your medal
On...

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Categories: abstractions, blessing, celebration, devotion, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open Verse Turner
Visual poetry
  in abstractions
sumptuous
iridescent
   images of natural
elements
of light,of places

expressive
individual genius
of the spectacular
in
close observation
of the wildest moods
&rage
 of the elements

sequence of the dramatic
interludes
of atmosphere
tranquil
yet
evoking the natural
light

in a manner
of old& novel
with anticipation
of the
abstraction

to later
        come...

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Categories: abstractions, art, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empathy As Green Democracy
I don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change...

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Categories: abstractions, education, health, history, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Life As Perceived Reality
Life As Perceived Reality

We believe and think what beings we are;  
Juiced up ready to expel our seeds
to create new generations of replications. ...

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Categories: abstractions, allegory, allusion, deep, imagery,
Form: Personification
Diaries From Distant Shores II
PART II.

IV. 
there's no turning back...
when the landscapes change, when the rains come
submerged in solitary conversations
I'm unworthy to left gifts at your feet
so I wait...

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Categories: abstractions, lost love, ocean, pain,
Form: Epic
A Disease of Affluence
(for Jon Accomando)

mine was the last generation to be spanked. sensuous and real, w/ corporal punishment— at
least you felt something.
sadly, it too has been corrupted.
in...

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Categories: abstractions, allegory, cat, fire, cat,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A New Dawn
Theoretical abstractions,
reductive hard word choices,
to describe and prescribe spiritual experiences
are unsatisfactory for daily consumption and absorption
as they reify exceptions to your Business As Usual,
which is...

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Categories: abstractions, deep, destiny, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Civilizing Savages
I stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.

The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and...

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Categories: abstractions, bible, birth, creation, earth,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs