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Premium Member Of Silent Screaming Pregnancies
OF SILENT SCREAMING PREGNANCIES…

Creative silence 
Unlike the silence
Of death
Is life giving:-

In creative silence
The heart beats;
Blood flows;
Breathing abounds.

In the silence of mind
Sage words scream out
Divine wisdom...

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Categories: allegorical, allegory, analogy, birth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Titanic- Fare Thee Well
On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic,
Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet.
Plush it was...

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Categories: allegorical, angst, death, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the...

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Categories: allegorical, bible, death, earth, god,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Hieroglyphs and Holograms
I am lost in the heart of time and place
Stranded between the present and past
In my view are members of a civilized race
Whose slaves build...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegorical, future, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Corralled Beneath a Slow Sink of Half-Moons, Number One
Corralled Beneath A Slow Sink Of Half-Moons
 { After: Section LXIX of Memoriam by Tennyson}

An angel of soft and wanted touch, 
she delivers, serenity in...

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Categories: allegorical, angel, art, blessing, deep,
Form: Sonnet



Rainman
RAINMAN

What is art? Is a question, focus of much conjecture
And may be the subject of many an academic lecture
“If you has to ask, you ain’t...

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Categories: allegorical, art,
Form: Rhyme
No One Really Cares Part2
NO ONE REALLY CARES

Part 2

With a scheme from a team of human traitors who are unclean,
Straight up extreme and using it in a deceitful way,...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegorical, allegory, care, earth, light,
Form: Free verse
When Poets Meet
The clouds part at their roots…
Colliding the winds, waves
Crashing the shores.
We meet…
A rare combination 
Of circumstances,
Our situation aggravate 
A drastic storm, perfectly.
Words swarm our minds...

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© Keith Lea  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegorical, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cut Up Without You
long dark night 

you never say

return to me

this orange bedroom

its open fire

crackling through acetylcholine

tongues like fingers

bodies arched

two spoons

smeared in oils

red and umber

the drifting leaves

the streets...

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Categories: allegorical, imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Empyreal Heart and Soul
O Nebulae of Heart and Soul!
In infrared portrayal WISE,
your colors grace the stellar skies.
Have you a core celestial role?

Supernal presences you seem
that steal one’s fancy...

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Categories: allegorical, allusion, heart, inspiration, love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Poet and Philosopher
POET AND PHILOSOPHER

Political propaganda versus debate with ideology manifestations of today brings forth a new species of political expressions boldfaced.
The hoopla indoctrinates the brain of...

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Categories: allegorical, future, leadership, together, urban,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Trail Point, America's Compass
Hold and veer revolved career, the way by man alone on trails unknown, across
trackless stone, to follow where? across prairie’s bare! traveling light with bellies...

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Categories: allegorical, dedication
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Senses of Scripture
According to an ancient tradition
One can distinguish between two senses of Scripture
The literal and spiritual
The latter being subdivided into
Allegorical
Moral and 
Anagogical senses

The profound concordance of...

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Categories: allegorical, bible, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Conservative Healthy Spirals
Genetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and notnot historic enculturation
of Business As Usual...

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Categories: allegorical, blessing, culture, earth, games,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Emancipation: Delayed But Not Dismayed
(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re still here…marching on
With our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let...

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Categories: allegorical, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things