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Premium Member Reflection
**REFLECTION**

Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad, abuse, death, for her,
Form: Epic



Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: bad, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Letting Go
"Letting Go!"

Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...

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Categories: bad, depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: bad, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: bad, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: bad, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Letter
Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...

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Categories: bad, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nutcrackers Last Waltz
             
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Categories: bad, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: bad, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When I Dream Deep
As the mornings sun - begins to shine 
And memories of yesterday - I leave behind 
I get to see - another rising sun 
And...

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Categories: bad, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: bad, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dumb Questions
I was changing a tire and the neighbor walked by
Stood and looked a while, then he said Hi
Got a flat? he asked and this made...

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Categories: bad, funny, me, wife, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rule the World
Real women
Understand a very simple yet important concept.
Love begins at home.
Everything else just follows.

To eliminate
Hatred from the world
Entails raising children with love and guidance.

Women deserve...

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Categories: bad, power,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things