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Premium Member King Arthur - a Collaboration With Darren White
He is the king of words and poets alike
Assay as you may, this man you won’t smite
His armour sparkles in night or day
Defending those too meek to say

His table is round, there's room for all
There are chairs with wheels so no one will fall
He hands...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artfully, art, friend, friendship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Crepe-Myrtle Flowers
Eventide’s misty winds gently oscillate
Colorful clusters of crepe-myrtle flowers
Crowning atop rows of elegant tree-trunks
Blooms lavender, pink, red, and purple
Hanging in air from tips of twigs slender 
Bowing to earth, donning green foliage
Arrayed in symmetrical flower-bouquets.

On a summer stroll, my hand you hold,
Gazing rhythms tilting back...

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Categories: artfully, flower,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
               A coloratura rises 
                          from...

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Categories: artfully, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Threadbare Clouds
Gray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Winos sip rot gut from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud crotch splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got nowhere to hide

Cheap umbrella from a street corner pimp
Turns inside out before going limp
Putrid puddles, soggy doggy doo dollops
Are artfully...

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Categories: artfully, angst, beautiful, change, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Last Dream
To shivering seas 
   mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms 
with blue orchids 
      and plum blossoms,
singing sunflower symphonies 
of blooming poetry, 
wishing darkness
   would be a distant memory. 

If...

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Categories: artfully, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Caught By a Train
I was caught by a train yesterday

I hear people say
this often in exasperation
exaggerated tones
with over-dramatic groans
as if the train somehow
physically captured them
in its large mechanical grasp
diabolically refusing
to let them go

Yesterday
I was caught in a different way
imagination captured, you might say
captivated
charmed
and enchanted
by the passing art display

Something...

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Categories: artfully, appreciation, art, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Poetic Allure
Poetic words on
paper creased,
tell beauty of a
mind unleashed…
Pen is to paper - as
chalk is to slate.
Your mind is a
canvas - that I’ll
illustrate.
You’ll envision an
image artfully
crafted,
when reflecting on
poetry cleverly
drafted...
Secrets once
chained, and a bit
undefined,
will come into focus
inside your mind.
A likeness derived
from inspiring
scrawl,
unlocking the
dreamer that’s
inside us all...

Copyright ©...

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Categories: artfully, poems, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Muse
She is draped over a chair, 
Artfully fashioned
Like a fine piece 
Of silk.
He imagines that her softness 
Would sweetly mould into
His hands
Like ripe fruit.
She stays still and silent, 
Letting him consume her
With his hungry eyes.
He drinks her in, 
The fullness of her breast, 
The gentle...

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Categories: artfully, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
I Will Breathe In Your Rarefied Air
When you said to me,
"Climb up here,  It's pollution free."
Sacred. Safe.
Your rarefied air.
Calculating, you seemed so free.
Safeguard. Sage.
I said I could breathe...
Underrated your density.
Saintly. Sane.
High-minded insight.
When anticipated terror
denuded me,
cool rarefied air
regulated insanity, 
far gone fear.

I will breathe
in your rarefied air.
Let it burn brisk
in brittle,...

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Categories: artfully, education, identity, mentor,
Form: Alliteration
Colorful Me Lsd
Colorful Me LSD



Kaleidoscope euphoric psychedelic dreams
Rainbows colour perfect peaches and cream
Splashes orgasmic silhouettes of tiny screams
Cobalt rain droplets in a sunny set theme...

Tiny pearl spiders spin opaque webs in my spine
Snow plowed glass hazards in white chalked up lines
In awe to see so artfully the...

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Categories: artfully, addiction, color, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boxes and Crates
I have felt the rain
I have bared witness to such horrendous pain
I have died a few times over
I have hidden inside a smile

The fresh scent of morning dew
A sea faring fog, coming for a landing
As I travel back to childhood days
Where meadows and the sea...

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Categories: artfully, heart, introspection, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
Wedding Anniversary
 Hey my Sparkling light from heaven of blue sky,
       Marrying You,None of the path in life is empty without Your love!!
You are the dawn turning my night into day,
       Nature  residing...

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© Maddy Sp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artfully, angel, anniversary, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Didactic
The Mystique of Mars
The Mystique of Mars

Mars, fourth planet orbiting the sun,
was once a harbinger of hostility and aggression.
Aptly named after Roman god of war,
with sister Earth, it shares the same star.

Red, resplendent orb gracing the night sky, 
like a whirling dervish, it artfully dances by.
Two moons captured...

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Categories: artfully, future, mystery, science, space,
Form: Sonnet
Two Women, Similar Yet Different
Two Women, Similar Yet Different




Educated yet could not prevail,
School of hard knocks,
Similar Yet Different.

A lavish life yet unfulfilled,
Appreciative of what life brings,
Similar Yet Different.

Ignorance lacking accountability,
Responsible yet naive,
Similar Yet Different.

Egotistical taunting artfully,
Craft fully expressing discontent,
Similar Yet Different.

Crocodile tears yearning notice,
Noiseless hiss of strength,
Two Women, Similar...

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© M Nudelman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artfully, family, people, social, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poet and His Muse
Once upon a time,
a frustrated poet that had not written for a while,
turned towards the heavens and at the top of his voice cried:


" Why oh you divine Muse have forsaken me and now, able I am not, 
 to write even a single line?"


Calmly...

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Categories: artfully, muse, poetry, poets,
Form: Personification

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry