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Premium Member Fireflies
Night fell,
Summer’s heat abating,
I sat leaning against a tall magnolia,
Its fragrance spreading everywhere
Like echoes of whispering breezes.
Despite all I could not rest and sleep.

The moon...

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Categories: cadences, beauty, insect, night, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plucked Violin--- Memories
This is too complex; i mean the throbbing  wound 
grating my belly on a dappled day, a day 
breathing of tender winds and violins....

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Categories: cadences, i miss you, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Oratory - Power of the Spoken Word
As words escaped constricted passage
of time from eons of layered myths,
legends of demi-gods thus linked,
in glowing rendition, with whisk on hand
the Orator with staff, sang...

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Categories: cadences, art,
Form: Spoken Word



Magnolia Song
(for The Beloved and in honor of Arthur Rimbaud)

… the magnolias are far away – still, I sing, begging
them for bridges to
brood with stanzas of...

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Categories: cadences, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Fiona In the Night
For Fiona Meyrick, poet and musician; a Petrarchan sonnet

Fiona, in the silence of the night
Sings songs of sorrow soft in minor key
That sigh above all...

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Categories: cadences, muse, music, mystery, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Villanelle: Whose Voice Does the Non-Native English Poet Verily Hear
Villanelle: Whose voice does the non-native English poet verily hear

Whose voice does the non-native English poet verily hear
Words which sound to native English speakers as...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cadences, england, language, poetry,
Form: Villanelle



Morning Raga - "tell Me a Story!"
In the first grey light of dawn, a young woman begins the morning song.
The simple cadences of her song are as tranquil and liquid as...

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Categories: cadences, happiness, love, musicsong, husband,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flowing Creek Water
Since the rain graced our little creek,
Running whooshing liquid fills crevices
Of rocks, pebbles then babbles squeak.
Racing surging constantly balances

Cadences of rhythm causes gurlging.
The poetic quality...

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Categories: cadences, funny, health, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Schweitzer's Creed
In his book, "Out of my life and thought" Albert Schweitzer recalls
the afternoon in a boat at Lambarene, where he first conceived
his guiding philosophy, "Reverence...

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Categories: cadences, life, universe,
Form: Free verse
Love Spill
I fell this morning-
Stumbled over fear, surrender my bitter dressings
Kissing the distance of sanity 
Defying gravity 
Levitating toward the inevitable 

Plunging into the comfort of...

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Categories: cadences, anxiety, courage, crush, emotions,
Form: Free verse
My Son
Far away in the West,
Far far away from my cuddles and caresses,

Lives my son, 

Where rapid is the rise of the sun, where the sun...

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Categories: cadences, mother son,
Form: Alliteration
Sidewalk Sonnet
Mom's back a crack to caulk
can't knock it in, until it's knocked
them dogs on down the sidewalk
keep on goin', no time for thought

there's rhymes to...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cadences, childhood, children, kids, fun,
Form: Sonnet
Quivering Shapes
Chest on bosoms tightly pressed,
As waists  meet in dance of heat
To flare lust of evening’s touch---
Silhouettes cast dizzy frames
Burning pores from tango’s whip;
And quivers...

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© Rhoma Em  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cadences, dance, space,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Reads Like Music - Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Pentameter, a long name for a poetic form 
that's popular. It does resemble basic normal speech 
with cadences that flow with ups and downs....

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Categories: cadences, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Allow the Mind
Allow the mind
Afford its need to conjure
Profound:
If exaltation and majesty
Require a bit of provocation and amnesty today
Humor:
As remedy and coagulation
From the bleeding of
Pain, stress and...

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Categories: cadences, humanity, imagery, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse