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Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: briefcase, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: briefcase, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mission Accomplished
I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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Categories: briefcase, confusion, fantasy, joy, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: briefcase, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Speak My Language
Speak my language
A language of love I can understand
My heart language
Understand my need
My desire to be understood
Speak my language

Speak fluently to my heart
Words of Affirmation
I...

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Categories: briefcase, language, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Night Street
The dank petrichor of grainy night,
meters stand like gravestones, 
the obsidian avenue slick as a sapphire,
windowed granite rising in sharp cut shadows,
wind gusting, tumbleweed clouds...

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Categories: briefcase, imagery, night, rain,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Write Me - I
Put down your remote
     pick up your pen
     write me

Make me timeless
     as...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: briefcase, encouraging, poetry, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Animal Crackers
A giraffe approached
We necked

An elephant met me on the jungle path
I stored many thoughts in his trunk

A monkey smiles at me
Now I have no more...

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Categories: briefcase, animal, children, fairy,
Form: Couplet
Prolong the Inevitable Pt. Iii
"give this,
one blood stained
word scrawled
on a stretch of
swine flesh.
call it "soul"
& sacrifice the known
to see it become
whole for one
fainting second
& shown
the surface undone,
completed in its
ever...

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Categories: briefcase, death, imagination, life,
Form: Blank verse
Dust and Fire
Standing naked …

above silent buildings ,silent with a smile …
riding soft and smooth rhythm(non usually played in his time)
behind him stands the well-famous small stormy...

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Categories: briefcase, growing up, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Life Station
Pecking quick, a parting kiss
Pumping legs, a train to miss
Lovers waving, strangers pass
Tears and hugs a whistle blast 
Scanning papers on news stands
Pats on backs...

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Categories: briefcase, introspection, life, people
Form: Rhyme
Data
Transearth void,
Darkness imaginary,
Interior cosmic system captivated,
Single box frame.
Triumphant numbers,
Cloning the blackish infinite.
Mastering image star-breath.
The two,
Ones and Zeros governed.
Rush flight,
Conquering wars over the other in submitting...

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Categories: briefcase, science, prayer,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Bling Is the Thing
BLING IS THE THING!

A gold looking briefcase that glitters
And glows,
A shimmery sequin diary that likes to
Know that it shows,
Crayons of every, and any colour that...

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Categories: briefcase, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boomerang
I was forever losing things, and my laughing friends called me a klutz,
Like darker skies misplace buttery sun, when a severe storm develops.

I had once...

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Categories: briefcase, day, fantasy, friendship, fun,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Brief Case Exchange
The spiral staircase made her high heels sing
as quickly she descended to ground floor.
She’d pulled it off! Her briefcase held the proof.
How proud of her...

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Categories: briefcase, mystery,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs