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Premium Member Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse
Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse

Sonnet I

I saw morn's soft hands stretching to touch bright moonlight
Is but a fleeting blink betwixt man's death and birth
Dark...

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Categories: adaptation, art, creation, dedication, deep,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Woman Said To the Universe (Adaptation)
A woman said to the universe:
"Sir, see me as equal!"
"I hear you," replied the universe,
"But I can't see you 
Because that tall man's head is...

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Categories: adaptation, satire, socialme, universe,
Form: Free verse
The River
Before the weary pilgrim, flowed a river fair and wide
The way was filled with danger,  he couldn't cross the other side;
So the pilgrim sought...

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Categories: adaptation, life, boat, journey, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For the Love of Lexicon
My Mother taught me
how to see through language, 
paper was rare, iron ink wasn't free
so she sold some jewelry for porcelain lettering, 
and we clapped...

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Categories: adaptation, dedication, history, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Damsel Or a Camel
Why drowning when there's
the ability to swim in me?
Why sleeping in the cold woods
with a match box in my Jacket
and an Axe below my head?
Why...

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Categories: adaptation, adventure, life, success, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Homeplace
Here further down the hillside slope
Down close to the creek with hope

My husband bought a house, land
Fenced in and made many plans

Subdued the land to...

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Categories: adaptation, daughter, family, history, husband,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 1
The skeletons and songs of samsara eternal
fleshed, fattened and flamed in karmic harmony,
your heart begins to beat in dark plethora roll
an in utero thunder thumps...

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Categories: adaptation, birth, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Chalk Line
Chalk is the magic of blackboards, sports fields and
little girl's sidewalk games of Hop-Scotch.
How many equations and statements, measured lines, and boxes
do you imagine have...

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Categories: adaptation, anger, death, grave, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Poor Little Orphan Kids, With No Moms Or Fads
I like the thought of evolution
That a fish could outsmart god
Show him something new and bold
Like a human is something odd

I guess that’s just how...

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Categories: adaptation, funny, life, people, emo,
Form: Rhyme
National Stand
The Illuminati are a con,
It is how they have won,
From the formation of the nation that they sit upon 

While we are stuck taking our...

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Categories: adaptation, america, immigration, poems, political,
Form: Political Verse
Predictable
What were the odds they did not know?
So many, many years ago, according to the records 
they had left in there, it seems the answer...

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Categories: adaptation, angst, art, bereavement, environment,
Form: Free verse
Invisible Is Peace
The dark streets
Give me a home
Nobody around
Yet I am not alone

Science and nature
Are all around
I am on a mission to find
What can not be found

Searching...

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Categories: adaptation, adventure, imagination, lifeme, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Acceptation, Part 1
Life, love and communication, this is something for every nation. It started with temptation and verification, but ended in complication. So listen to this declaration.

We...

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Categories: adaptation, appreciation, education, inspiration, rap,
Form: Monorhyme
Dripping Moon
The moon dripped like wax through 
the canopy of the pines, light and 
shadow were scattered across the
ground like playing cards.
The air was still, the...

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Categories: adaptation, nature
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Delicate Balance - Accident Or Gift
mountains bob like corks
adrift on liquid magma -
pond scum shelters life

Earth’s magnetic shield -
magma’s gift of moving charge
thwarts sun’s deadly winds

continental drift -
neighborhoods fenced by...

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Categories: adaptation, death, life, universe,
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs