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Premium Member Go Ask Alice
Ah, Divine influence, it has come to many, so they say,
as to their nameless or named God’s they do pray.
The light came to Carroll, he...

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Categories: bodiless, allegory, devotion, fantasy, introspectionmen,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to...

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Categories: bodiless, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative
8 Minutes
Diamonds scrape the surface of my skin
Leaving cuts that shine red ruby blood that follows
So addicting, beauty, what lies beneath us all
We search for this...

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Categories: bodiless, adventure, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Closet Held Secrets
The closet held secrets
    his deepest fears
  It hadn't been opened
    in nigh on ten years

  He'd...

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Categories: bodiless, fear, mystery, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Jaina Dharma
Jaina Dharma

Jaina Dharma, my divine path to Moksha or salvation
to achieve my soul’s ultimate liberation;
through self-effort, non-violence, non-absolutism, non-possessiveness,
renunciation, retrospection, introspection, serenity, and stillness.

I bow...

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Categories: bodiless, devotion, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The House of Mirrors
THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS

Come one, come all to the fabulous House of Mirrors,
Souls and the soulless, all are Welcome here in these
Reflective cell prisms.
Enticements glass...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bodiless, adventure, courage, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Moon
Halloween Moon Crabs


A tide rises to leave behind hundreds of tossed colourful halloween moon crabs to stroll

Craving social connections like homeless souls furtively hunting their...

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Categories: bodiless, color, malayalam, moon, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"


The Sleeper
shone as she walked 
through the Woods

shining alive 
like nothing
natural could

caught 
in the moonlight 
unaware

the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,

"beware,...

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Categories: bodiless, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Like a Chinese Lantern
At the end of the thought
was sadness.
When temple lies broken
a little white lotus comes up
on the tranquil lake.

A cute word enters the lone voice,
stands down,...

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Categories: bodiless, art
Form: I do not know?
Raft
Pisces vacation...
muscles melting in the sun
waves cradle gently
bodiless, only the now
Mother Ocean rocks her child...

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Categories: bodiless, sea,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism? 

This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics...

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Categories: bodiless, love, poetry, poets, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part Two
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for “some” other giants – Part Two


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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bodiless, confidence, dedication, devotion, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
The Headless Man
if Rowena's kuzzle was
the center of the Earth
he'd look for a shovel
she was an underpass hooker
exploited by a grim and grimy past
reckless as the day...

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Categories: bodiless, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tender Years
Your brown eyes speak 
bright laughter has etched your fair face
Your brown eyes speak
their bright allure is your mystique 
with hands which hold such solemn...

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Categories: bodiless, goodbye, husband, visionary, wife,
Form: Verse
Bamboozler
Scorn is my aim,

It is my hope for salvation.
This was never real! Never! 
it was nauseatingly surreal
 “Relationship” you called it,

“Abomination!”  I say,

Twisting and...

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Categories: bodiless, lost love, body,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things