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Premium Member I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6
From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use...

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Categories: alternative, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: alternative, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shepherd Who Forgot His Flock
It's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see

sometimes they bleed.

Some say words heal,
but I resist to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternative, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacred Beloved In Collaboration With Akkina Downing
Every night I close my eyes, 
loneliness suffocates my soul. 
I rapidly escape through a portal of dreams,
where we once met with a passionate embrace. 

In your...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternative, dream, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Among Butterflies Sought
Is
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open...

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Categories: alternative, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark,
Form: Concrete



Sacred Beloved In Collaboration With Silent One
Every night I close my eyes, 
loneliness suffocates my soul. 
I rapidly escape through a portal of dreams,
where we once met with a passionate embrace....

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Categories: alternative, emotions, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater - the rest of the story
(Alternative Ending for Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater)

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.
Do you think he kept his wife so well
by putting her inside a pumpkin shell?
Inside that...

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Categories: alternative, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Small Stain of Blood
an early morning rise,
up the stairs
walk into the bathroom 
in the sink
a small stain of blood.

less than a measure of yesterday 
pulling a baby out...

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Categories: alternative, child, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pot Head
There’s a poet who thinks we are not

such great writers, yet she’s not that hot!

What that smarty pants spoke

was like saying to coke,

“You’re illegal” when...

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Categories: alternative, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Climate Change Is No Joke
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.

Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And...

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Categories: alternative, earth, environment, fire, pollution,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Feelings
FEELINGS


Feelings,
Masters of my destiny
Lords of my life
Strength of my dreams
Instigators of my actions

Burning fire you are 
Consuming my whole 
Being:
My heart
My mind 
My soul
My spirit,...

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Categories: alternative, imagination, introspection, language, universe,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Poetry and Me
“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternative, how i feel, poems,
Form: Free verse
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: alternative, corruption, dark, psychological, word
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: alternative, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
If the Gods Aren'T Sick, Then Crazy They Must Be
I felt the touch of the breeze on my face from my sleep
Oh! With the morning sun, i woke with a flip
And there staring at...

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© White Sage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternative, africa, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things