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Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: british, community, friend,
Form: Prose



Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: british, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Musings of Love
“You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope."
Rumi


in the kingdom of love,
nothing is simple,
not even musings,
so...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: british, love,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Under the Surface
Mind cannot comprehend, it finds it strange,
when ignorance reigns in human exchange.
Wonder if some people will ever change,
or wish to remain in the firing range.

I...

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Categories: british, anti bullying, judgement, political,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: british, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: british, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grace
Oliver and Grace were planning to wed
At a church in Dublin on Easter day
They put on hold and chose to fight instead
For the fight for...

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Categories: british, ireland, love, war,
Form: Sonnet
Dreaming With Butterflies
FLUTTER BY                       ...

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Categories: british, butterfly, nature, nostalgia, seasons,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Domino Effect - Selfish Selfie
Please do not touch

Just read the signs dotted around the gallery display
So you take a selfie ...
What harm can it do?

Your camera shutter
clicks 
clicks 
clicks
as...

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Categories: british, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manchester Attack
Yet another incident has happened today
When will these terrorists go away
Manchester this time at a concert
Some taken to early some really hurt

Thier war now affecting...

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Categories: british, child, conflict, together, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: british, community,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Blàr Chùil Lodair - the Battle of Culloden
16th April 1746
The day a country ceased to exist
British Army, Hanoverian scum
Defeated our Jacobite's
Scotland is on the run
 
Our Tartans banished, bagpipes no more
To lead...

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Categories: british, political, warmen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beausoleil
We loved the land
We tilled the earth, under sun we toiled
We pledged our souls, to nature’s whim
The King of France none to pleased

We took the...

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Categories: british, history, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Am
I am a face hiding behind a computer screen
I am maybe the one you search for in your dream
I am compassionate and for other’s I...

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Categories: british, me,
Form: Rhyme
An Excavation
Children as young as three years old,
    Killed for not doing as they’re told,
    Forced to forget their culture...

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Categories: british, abuse, children, death, school,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things