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Premium Member no poet am I -
a poet, you say? pardon no, not am I
there's only ONE poet - He writes on the
       sky
of sunsets...

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Categories: authentic, blessing, faith, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: authentic, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Is the Cure
When smoke consumes clear horizons,
manipulating corridors of the mind,
beckoning imminent afflictions

poetry is the remedy.

A poet's first eternal love,
forming an authentic bond.
A tonic of silent expressions
creating...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: authentic, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: authentic, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Deepest Desire
In times of old I’ve heard it said,
That all roads led to Rome.
Now like the beating of distant drums,
Our hearts are leading us home.

It’s not...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: authentic, creation, desire, destiny, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Glamour
When splendor shimmers hypnotized glance
O, glamour, how captivating is your stance,
Aesthetic, harmonious, brushstrokes of art,
Flaring embers of elation in enamored heart.

Opulence of your aura lights...

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Categories: authentic, art, beauty, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Predator
Take AI’s verses 
    and make them yours,
fake wisdom through 
   generated synonyms,
stolen from 
   the thesaurus of...

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Categories: authentic, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Date Night (And the Day After)
Opening line from "Highway Five Love Poem" by Ruth L. Schwartz


This is a love poem for all the tomatoes
I squished to make our Date-Night spaghetti.
Our...

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© Erin Moss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: authentic, food, lost love, sad,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Path To Peace
I have fought through incredible things
Trauma and all kinds of life experiences 
One may think peace comes to one easy
But it doesn’t, as the years...

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Categories: authentic, endurance, journey, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts Running Free 5
Most of us have heard the quote, 
“as a man thinketh so is he.”
Thoughts therefore are a part of creation.

We were created to have purpose...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: authentic, creation, god, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Turmoil
It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my...

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Categories: authentic, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Time Feathered In Stone

I open the cemetery gate and walk a winding path
the ancient trees sway and reach out for me as I go
I pass mazes of headstones
like...

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Categories: authentic, words,
Form: Free verse
Rejected
12/21/19


Not going to pretend it
I've been feeling rejected
And disrespected
Nothing I said and did
Was effective
Time I take a sedative
Or maybe 10 of them

Was fine one minute...

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Categories: authentic, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
I Believe
I believe we are all family....
  and golden
  and our souls (are One)
  with starlight

I believe in the love in your eyes(all)
...

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Categories: authentic, hope, life, together,
Form: Free verse
Daisies
Daisies" 
by Lori Maria Walton

Come walk with me among the daisies
Not with the roses, as they have thorns
But among the lucid pulchritude
Waiting with open eyes...

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Categories: authentic, appreciation, celebration, death, future,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things