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Premium Member A Strange Galaxy
When I gaze into this realm, I see more than the dazzling array
     of golden starbursts floating in a cosmic sea...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archives, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: archives, angst,
Form: Free verse
Softly You Dream
https://soundcloud.com/kentucky-gal/2015-01-22-13-25-41722a

~Your dreams so tenderly wrapped in satin pleasures 'neath pillowed head. 
  As loves velvet touch so warmly embrace under downy covers in your...

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© Mary Hoose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archives, love,
Form: Couplet
Sweet Purpose
I have come to the point of decision
And I have decided in favour of love

Wisdom is not solely measured by experience
But more by capacity for...

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Categories: archives, inspirational, on work and
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In the Sea of Life

Whispers of Light color the Night in lifeless hues
Musical Notes arrayed in soft Quotes for a muse
Filling up Lives with captivating Archives in cues
For moments...

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Categories: archives, beautiful, faith, hope, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mediclueless, a Hypochondriac's Lament
I feel I have appendicitis,
Or a bad case of bursitis,
And I think I need another tonsillectomy.
I'm sure I got a staph infection
From a tetanus injection
While...

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Categories: archives, health, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Pompeii
When nature takes a turn for the worst
grumbling rumbles shakes 
great balls of fire falling 
in her tears black snowfalls

Burning smell of sulphur burns
rolling down...

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Categories: archives, dark, devotion, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen Tribute
My heart is breaking, but the show must go on.
Too much love will kill you, if you try too hard.
Love of my life, don't leave...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archives, love hurts,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Stalker
Hints not taken from countless missed calls,
and no replies to tons of texts.
Still she searches through social media clues,
pursuing like a hunter,
pondering why his green...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archives, abuse, angst,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Touch of a Stranger
I could feel a connection, right here from the start
From the heart of a stranger, around every bend

What was stranger than that, was they would...

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Categories: archives, friend, friendship, uplifting, writing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Iris-W
Prized for perfumes and medicines,
Rainbow personified & God’s messenger,
Resting the souls of dead women,
Decorum of the graves,
Delight of the ancient artists.

Blooming on Minoan Walls,
Sculptured in...

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Categories: archives, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Piano Teacher
Piano Teacher

 Adored her timely teaching skills
Adored the way she never yelled nor screamed!
 even when my Piano lesson bored the heck out of me...

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Categories: archives, career, celebration, culture, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Light of Reckoning -2
The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in...

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Categories: archives, creation,
Form: Epic
Interwar
Glass, a lid
Slipping, a curtain of purest water
Drop
Now fainting, waking and beating
Closer growing, armoury for an apparition
Dreaming of wings, but oh,
But oh

Trail, paper
Walls are covered...

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Categories: archives,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Iris-Ii-W
Prized for perfumes and medicines,
Rainbow personified & God’s messenger,
Resting the souls of dead women,
Decorum of the graves,
Delight of the ancient artists.

Blooming on Minoan Walls,
Sculptured in...

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Categories: archives,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs