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Premium Member Glory of Her Magnificence
Oceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.

Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: astonished, change, longing, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where the White Rose Blooms
The single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...

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Categories: astonished, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form: Quatrain
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: astonished, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: astonished, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Emerald Forests
Emerald Forests

Emerald forest hiding from man's curse
if found, its never better , always worse.
Wretched destroyers we are in this abode
in our arrogance we are firmly...

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Categories: astonished, art, creation, green, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet



The Unicorn
The Unicorn

Once upon a time…
an incredible event occurred that was so sublime.
On a warm summer night many years ago,
awakened by the rhythmic tempo
of hoof beats...

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Categories: astonished, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things I Don'T Understand
There are things I don't understand
And would really like to know
Such as why they call it rush hour
And you move so freakin' slow

How come you...

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Categories: astonished, confusion, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Teats of Love
From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life,...

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Categories: astonished, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Comparison Between Byron and Me On Francesca
I was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's...

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Categories: astonished, fantasy, poetry,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: astonished, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lamenting Over An Old World
As strangers to this virgin land
succumbed to the impossible
we are numbed by grief for what is gone
Astonished by the solitude...

We gaze, without a breath, nor...

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Categories: astonished, earth, imagination, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In the Fog: a Soul's Journey
Written: October 06, 2023
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I have seen the ample fog, so dense and vast.
It swallowed the world—a look that couldn't last.
I cried and sighed, but there...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: astonished, analogy, community, integrity, lost,
Form: Rhyme
The Mulberry Tree and Its Birds Part Two


A GIFT FOR EVERYONE 
ESPECIALLY 
FOR  CHILDREN
 


The Mulberry Tree & its Birds


IMPORTANT NOTE:
Now watch a short Video film made by me (placed on...

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Categories: astonished, bird, tree,
Form: Epitaph
The Malkavian Part 1 Perfect Version
His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented
Drained and defeated, his family finally...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: astonished, confusion, corruption, dark, lonely,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Tale of Death:
This aspect is succinctly told by, W.Somerset Maugham from an Arab tale:

The speaker is Death:

There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: astonished, death, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things