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I Saw a Praying Mantis
I saw a praying mantis as I went about my day
The brightest green, the coolest form
and I just had to say

“Please tell me of your...

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Categories: anybody, prayer,
Form: Rhyme



Categories: anybody, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Waiting To Be Free
Waiting to be free


I am dying, but not like anybody who died.
I am living, but in the rainbow, I do reside. 
How much longer will...

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Categories: anybody, friendship, hope, life, love,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Life Through a Child's Eyes
finding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches

What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For...

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Categories: anybody, child,
Form: Haibun
A Letter To God
I wrote a letter to God and I had to ask why,
He allowed so much suffering and little people had to die?
One’s that had never...

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Categories: anybody, confusion, devotion, faith, inspirationalme,
Form: Verse



Premium Member I Can'T Write
This is a parody of "I can't Dance." by Genesis.


Metaphor junkies
spewing their dung
actin all holy
like they've written in tounges...

Can anybody
interpret that (Bleep)
explain the poems meaning
with...

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Categories: anybody, anti bullying, funny, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Child
A child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.

They give sense to our...

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Categories: anybody, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Star Trek and Captain Kirk's Final Frontier
Kirk: ‘Lt. Uhura, come to my quarters at 1800 hours’
Uhura: ‘Yes captain, might I ask what’s up?’
Kirk: ‘Nothing now but something WILL be at 1800...

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Categories: anybody, parody, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Voyeur
You look through the windows of my poetry
Deep into the bedroom of my heart
you watch me undress
button by button
It slowly slips down
You adjust the focus
of...

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Categories: anybody, analogy,
Form: Free verse
In My Mother's Eyes
In my mother's eyes I see my hero
I know fear is far at bay
In her words I feel protection
In her smile I see my face

Because...

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Categories: anybody, mother, prejudice,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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Categories: anybody, life, loss,
Form: Narrative
Clique

Clique ... clique
Peer pressure is a gun
Low self-esteem wanting popularity,
gather together in small clusters
Grapes of wrath ... attack anybody 
who try to break the bind
Verbal...

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Categories: anybody, angst, friendship, social, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paradise Leaving Not a Trace
Paradise Leaving Not A Trace


I took the last picture off the wall
 then my broken heart started to bawl
 on the floor lay your broken...

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Categories: anybody, growth, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Two Little Boxes Part 1
Mary spent her final days
Inside a nursing home
Tended to by well trained staff
But still so all alone

They gave her everything of need
Bathed and fed and...

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Categories: anybody, caregivingsmile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Killing of One Hundred and Fifty Million Years
another typical day, with feet on the ground
  ordering the hedge to meet my image of trim
  many measured bits fall before the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anybody, bird, child, death, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs