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Premium Member Anchorite At the Gate of Heaven
ANCHORITE AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN

Not heeding brute reality, nor matter’s bane
I kneel at the door of heaven, a suppliant,
Transcribing words of wisdom, like the...

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Categories: anchorite, allegory, blessing, religion,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Only Star For Me
God shrouded the universe in darkness.
Is there a human or divine side to blackness?
The young dictum's star shines brightly here.
I dream when I look at...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anchorite, analogy, appreciation, star,
Form: Rubaiyat
Spiritedly Distilling Social Graces
Puberty set off affright
seeding decades long
     terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (except

...

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Categories: anchorite, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Redemption Lost and Silenced Thanks To Trump 1
Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so...

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Categories: anchorite, 12th grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. 
Her skin's mahogany, not regal white. 
She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton, 
and has...

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Categories: anchorite, love,
Form: Sonnet



Still Empty
Closed shattered the walking desert!

Moving airy mind in the open sky
finds the wings

Everything is there
In this universe, a full of adolescent beauty

No, I really didn't...

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Categories: anchorite, how i feel, journey,
Form: Free verse
The Lighthouse
Its singularity is insular
until it stirs itself
and throws its restless particles away,
out to the blackened, hungry sea,
the heaving grace of irony
whose understanding is but to...

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Categories: anchorite, caregiving, universe,
Form: Free verse
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
(Idea engendered from Lombok earthquake: Indonesia)

Nary a chink of illumination pierces thru
thick cavernous rock solid chamber home
     to this crepuscular anchorite,
who...

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Categories: anchorite, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Maze
he is but an anchorite
lost in the maze of life
twisting along like a vine
unable to scale the wall
he is trapped
somewhere inside
his mind
confined
to a sinuous past

a...

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Categories: anchorite, flower, garden, lonely,
Form: Free verse
I'M the Light
Fall to rise !

Rise to help 
those are falling 

life is beautiful 
if we make parallel 
in falling and rising 
with cordial help

Knowledge,
Knowledge with love...

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Categories: anchorite, introspection, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse
I Haint No Recalcitrant Underdog Among Hoi Polloi
Boot juiced abiding
     by ruff dogma, with joie
de vivre, which oft times witnesses
     me being a decoy
occasionally...

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Categories: anchorite, animal, character, creation, health,
Form: Free verse
Doomsday Clock January 2022
Doomsday Clock January 2022...

the most recent tabulation
signaled one hundred seconds to midnight

A couple years ago
similarly titled poem I did write,
yet looms as harbinger unless
*****sapiens...

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Categories: anchorite, absence, age, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Discombobulation Hammers Sic Kills Lacerates Peppers
Discombobulation hammers (sic) kills, lacerates, peppers... 
tuckered wayfarer

Blitzkrieg cacophony debilitates Earthling
spiritually, mentally, emotionally... castrates
analogous post traumatic stress disorder
status simulating shell shocked warrior
dizzily descending darkening dimension
aghast...

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Categories: anchorite, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Haint No Recalcitrant Underdog Among Hoi Polloi
Just a garden variety generic wordsmith 
teasing out reasonable rhyme courtesy ploy;
self plagiarizing boot juiced barely abiding
by ruff dogma, with enigmatic joie
de vivre charisma, 
which...

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Categories: anchorite, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anchorites And Hermits
Within the shaded dust accumulated annals
Layers of times past
And cobwebbed dim cold halls of a history 
Not always hide their secrets and mystery
As the echos...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anchorite, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs