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Premium Member Pick Up Your Pen and Write
...A week passed, yet no words drifted in my mind
I feared I'd become numb and poetically blind
so, I gave up, went to bed and turned off the light
but in the very next moment I screamed ......

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Categories: cajoled, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Vegetable Matter
...Grandpa’s a gem in the garden,
tending his sprouts and his peas,
tomatoes and onions and cabbage,
his ‘caulies’ and his broccoli’s.

I have seen plenty of gardens,
chocked full of bountiful gre......

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Categories: cajoled, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Buckets Without Summer Sand
...Two impish girls by a ridge of the sea
frolicked with wavelets  lapping merrily
as pink buckets  swayed, in each little hand
where clusters of moistened grains polished the sand
bedecking......

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Categories: cajoled, friendship, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Kneaded Life
...I’ve watched him whither. He came to me a decade ago, stooped in pain. The fine-boned features of his face and the clarity of his Irish skin still holding on to a genetic predisposition to beauty. He......

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Categories: cajoled, age, dream, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Shema
...The milky morning’s Saturn haze
Haloed the sun’s neonate phase
Seize the warmth, Hail to The Light!
No waspish thoughts to sting nor bite
this soft and cheerful face.

Shades to shadows stir an......

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Categories: cajoled, friendship, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Fugue of Passing Fancies
...an orchestrated night glitters 
to the wand wave of the maestro unborn
sweetness licks on liquorice sticks 
fingered on silver keys

the moon melts like a honey drop
as sopranos sing

in harm......

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Categories: cajoled, nature, night,
Form: Free verse



Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
...Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishne......

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Categories: cajoled, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy Bill
...Wild Bill Bailey loved his liquor
far too much for his own good-
Spent his days in smokey taverns
draining far more than he should.

Adeline had long suspected
as he rode off into town
that he......

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Categories: cajoled, appreciation, drink, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Winter's Chill
...A winter’s chill has taken hold -
a grip that cannot be controlled.
And with it, creeping, comes a dread
which, having settled in my head,
has brought me back to things foretold. . . . 

to thi......

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Categories: cajoled,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member In a Powerful Way
...The Most High way, Abba Father,
your hands are full, always a-bless,
never ending- your palms of grace.
You are love…ing in a pow-er-ful way!

Hallelujahs forever born.
The light of......

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Categories: cajoled, christian, fruit,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Life Is But a Dream
...
cajoled by love divine sublime
our soul ascends in timeless time
why fret when we are in a dream
delighting in images that stream
hark, oh hermit, to our hearts chime

27-Aug......

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Categories: cajoled, dream, life, love,
Form: Quintilla
Premium Member 13 and Confident
...She is assertive.
When she does not want to do 
something, she lets you know.

She honors herself.
Her heart shows her the way.
She listens to her inner voice.
She is 13, and confident.

She......

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Categories: cajoled, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Walked a Mile With Pleasure
...What did Pleasure do? She robbed you!
"But it was great while it lasted!"......Was it?


I walked a mile with Pleasure; she took my breath away,
She told me how she'd laughed and danced many nig......

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Categories: cajoled, imagination, inspirational, passion,
Form: Verse
Premium Member You Can Lead a Horse To Water
...Toasty mornings with teakettles whistling bring to mind Danish days on Marata’s 
horse farm, ponies prancing in the unusually warm sunlight, and new fangled 
sparkling silver water fountains. Mirad......

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Categories: cajoled, familyold, water, farm, horse,
Form: Narrative
The Stories That Flow When Not Thinking
...
"The Stories that Flow when Not Thinking" 

Collaboration 
in the corner 
with poets 
and lovers

well hidden
in the noise
of words 
not said 

mouths are 
moving
......

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Categories: cajoled, imagery, muse, romance, sensual,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry