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Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: brethren, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: brethren, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member It Was Her Poetry Seduced Me
When Thor struck his hammer
upon the flat ground on Earth
it was the pieces withstood the blow we named rock,
constructs we came to know as the...

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Categories: brethren, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Day Had Come
His day had come, and so He went and prayed.
The woes of all mankind upon him weighed.
His brethren slept; He knew what would befall.
His enemies...

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Categories: brethren, christian, easter,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brethren, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The House of Spirits
It looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brethren, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Shells of Alamein Lest We Forget War
Lest we forget

When the Shelling 
And the Din of gunfire
Finally stopped 

His mind was shot
A hollow broken shell
Stood

Crooked in the corner of some foreign land
Every...

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Categories: brethren, slam, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preserver of Freedom
After the ashes are scattered from my urn
If the Lord should give me a chance to return
There is no doubt which animal I’d be
An eagle...

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Categories: brethren, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blessed By God
My dearly beloved Sister in the Lord,
You surely are a great blessing to me and to others...
May this poem of tribute to and for you...

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Categories: brethren, appreciation, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A World of Charity
The sparkle of charity is alive and well
It’s the grounds for cohesion and solidarity
Making spiritual gardeners of us all

Goodwill marries kindness
Sharing bounty with open heart
And...

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Categories: brethren, community, integrity, society, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immutable Beliefs Upholding My Being
This Current Life of Mine
          Created by the Supreme Almighty for His pleasure, I bear His...

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Categories: brethren, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Lonely Book
I took a book out of the library
where it must have stood amidst
its brethren for 25 years, unused,
unborrowed-- I know this because
its pages were crisp,...

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Categories: brethren, allusion, appreciation, books, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Journey - Part 1b
“Winter’s Journey”  (Part 1b)


Your mother's Universe resounds inside you 
where you are every single sparkling star 
in every planet’s sky, the Galaxies are vast...

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Categories: brethren, daughter, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was known for many a-things
Longing for reality to spring from his dreams
On a wild stormy night made a discovery
A dastardly magic called electricity!

However...

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Categories: brethren, funny, history,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The Vamperic Prayer-Dracula's Oath
In the name of blood, for it is the source of life itself,
Plasma's crimson essence of liquid infusion, to the undead's
Pulsating heart.
Intravenously feeding cravings passion,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brethren, dark, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things