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Premium Member A Dream Weaved
Your tapestry 
weaved with strands of light
Contrasted with threads of black
A marvelous mosaic 
of a wondrous soul

I drape you over me
Feel your warmth
am nurtured
I hear...

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Categories: alternate, beautiful, celebration, for her,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cyber Real
Has the convenience of technology 
inoculated us from reality?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I pray the code my soul to keep?
Does your universe live within 4G
Or...

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Categories: alternate, computer, culture, identity, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Alchemy
How do you change a lie into the truth?
Alchemy, dear children ...
this is how it's done, using unverifiable proof

First, you take a sick, dirty lie,
and...

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Categories: alternate, corruption, dark, psychological, word
Form: Dramatic Verse
Categories: alternate, cat,
Form: Concrete
Quacking Crackers
Donald Duck Chancellor of this fowl kingdom 
wearing an upside down smile's raging hypocrite backwards 
this deranged Duck twitters to and fro as his unhinged...

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Categories: alternate, anger, conflict, fear, irony,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Quacking Crackers
Donald Duck Chancellor of this fowl kingdom 
wearing an upside down smile's raging hypocrite backwards 
this deranged Duck twitters to and fro as his unhinged...

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Categories: alternate, abuse, betrayal, conflict, deep,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Under the Waxing Moon
The Moon is almost...

Sullen skies forewarn the frozen shroud.
 Gale November winds sway bare limbed
trees, whistling in chorus with arrows of
Geese straining to steer south.

The...

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Categories: alternate, mystery,
Form: Alliteration
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter...

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Categories: alternate, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Would You Like To Meter
Today I feel iambic! I would say
of all the meters, I like it the best.
An iamb starts with some soft sound to say
then ev'ry second...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternate, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Beirut
As the moon smiles down on the sparkling Mediterranean
The gentle rolling hills
Reach bejeweled fingers into the sea
Spilling the overflow of sparkling lights
Onto fishing boats that...

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Categories: alternate, beautiful, city,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Cotton Candy Castles
Cotton candy castles

When you look closely at an idea,
it has no weight.
The holes seem to weigh
more than the thought itself
The idea can never happen.
It can...

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Categories: alternate, dream,
Form: Free verse
Interstellar Love
I searched earth and my love was 
nowhere to be found.

Now I travel to distant galaxies searching 
for my love in space

where it's cold and...

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Categories: alternate, desire, future, i love
Form: Romanticism
Temptation
I see this perfect moon-lit night
with million heart-shaped stars in sight
ill-clad with none but drooping leaves
a fig-tree fraught with a disease
its beauty once majestic spoilt
in...

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Categories: alternate, girlfriend-boyfriend, nostalgia, passion, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Interview - For Contest
This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene:...

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Categories: alternate, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Fear of the Unknown
Fear Of The Unknown

That sudden unknown, so unrevealing, 
it's the tell-tale trademark of the one in question 
as it sets off nerves in every-which-way, 
plainly...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternate, fear, feelings,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things