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Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: building, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: building, new year,
Form: Rhyme
The Inner Child
I don't want to be your sister

I don't want to be your mother

I don't want to be your wife

nor your mistress or a lover

I want...

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Categories: building, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer
A hot and humid day floats merrily on the seas
As tiny bikinis amble in sandy footprints
And frolic in the motives of soft ocean breeze 
Building...

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Categories: building, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Arms of starry Skies
My eyes cry for
fuschia glimmer on 
indigo waves again,
but all I see are 
haunting hues
of black sequin
glittered epitaphs;
reflections of hollow 
clouds enveloping cold air;
building tension...

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Categories: building, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poetry Pillar
When Light needed a body to behold, and color to kiss,
as Darkness dreamnt to die in the dawn of depth,
when Soul lustered to lust for...

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Categories: building, beauty, creation, desire, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Thirsty Love
As a young boy
    I watch with interest the small man
   Wolf Hunter - a wise father of the hunt


He...

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Categories: building, love, lust,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Days That Brought Me Here
I thought I would go backwards
Into my uncertain
My awkward
The days of my wondering
What will I be when I grow up?
Will I ever grow up?
Is everyone...

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Categories: building, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: building, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Today's Weather Forecast: Severe Wind Warning
Due to growing Nimbus clouds of oppression
an area of low pressure has been building
Rest assured, it won't lead to bouts of depression
but rumblings of thunder...

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Categories: building, humorous, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Showdown At Soup Creek
It was now growing dark as the sun was going down
When a stranger rode into Soup Creek, a frontier town
No one could see his face,...

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Categories: building, america, humor, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Icing

FOUNDATION

“...we achieve true wholeness
by embracing our fragility...”

Jalaja Bonheim


FOUNDATION

i had
no script

no actors

no stage

instead let me direct this life

my life

stage the words

add a subtle dramatic  tone
with...

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Categories: building, deep,
Form: Free verse
Slowly
Slowly 

 ever so slowly

 overcome with emotion

building up ever so effortlessly

   inside

passions burning ever so swiftly

reside

deep in my heart

sweet smells of your...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: building, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: building, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: building, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs