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Premium Member Some Hearts Can Never Be Tamed
Once when my soul spoke,
you betrayed every word.
Then your tongue promised
to only sing with sincerity.

I danced for a brief while, 
lost in your angelic orchestra.
Until I stumbled and you fell,
crushing our garden of roses.

Then keys fused only sad sounds.
Maybe it was me, but i'm sure...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: can, angst, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Can Argue Miracles Exist
Who Can Argue Miracles Exist?

No man, be he grandiloquent or coarse;
             be he a learned novel or tattered page;
             be he...

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Categories: can, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Hoping You Can Feel Me
I sit alone and I think of you, hoping you can hear me
If I close my eyes just before I sleep, I can see you more clearly
Even where I am now, where everything is dark
I can feel you here beside me, gently tugging at my...

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Categories: can, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passionme, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



What More Can We Do
Haunted by the death of dreams 
and slaughtering of innocence 
but too afraid to dig up the bones 
and examine our own mistakes, 
we bury our heads instead, 
blindly following greedy leaders 
who give nothing but hollow words  
and meaningless moments of silence. ...

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Categories: can, anger, children, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Tomorrow You Can Fly -
The one who doubts his own doubts
is like counting snowflakes in a snowstorm
Remember to thank for health and luck,
see everything in a slightly larger perspective
And speak the language of poetry fluently
We are all the same seed of life
Reason and dreams of lily of the valley


On...

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Categories: can, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can You Spare a Teardrop
I cried for so long, so many nights,
and now no more tears can drop,
I'm all out, do you have some to spare,
cause you know once I start, I can't stop.

I go on for days with a heavy heart,
no tears fall, though inside I'm crying,
I feel...

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Categories: can, cry, emotions, feelings, how
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Can We Be Strangers
the holes in the walls are all patched
and the plaster is dry
the broken glass is swept away
or turned to sand

I only want that when I see you,
you not quickly turn away…

to be forgiven--not to start over,
we know how that ends
not to be friends, we’ve tried...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: can, divorce, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Can You Imagine
Can You Imagine

In Our Planet

If one fine day..
All trees are given a chance to speak-
What will they speak to us?:
'What have you EGOISTIC humans 
Caused to our ENVIRONMENT?'

If one fine day..
Mother Earth is given a voice
What will She say? 
Her thunderous voice will echo
From her...

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Categories: can, humanity, imagination, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Cold of Winters How Can My Words Perceive
The many winters I had seen
When  once I was a teen
Gathered inside our small living room
Joy and simplicity our faces illume
Warm with laughter at striking stories
Light is the heart and empty of worries
My sisters and sole brother
The treasure of my father and my mother
Mum,...

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Categories: can, age, blessing, books, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you in scriptures and prayers,
The moderns doubted you in so many facts and proofs.

Absolute truth 
     your...

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Categories: can, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can Resist You
Don’t even try to woo me
I can resist you
My mind is fortified
Reason screams reasons to be careful
Caution goes off in flares
My mind is alert
Aware
I can resist you

Oh, but my body 
My body plays traitor...

My eyes adore you….
they take in every detail
of your face
your body
every contour...

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Categories: can, desire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Can We
Be quiet quiet quiet 
Shush shush shush
We’ve spoken too much
We haven’t listened enough

Black men and women
It’s not easy to be brave
Oppression and inequality 
make you feel like a slave

Your struggles are constant
Beyond what we realize
What we take for granted
Should be a right not a prize

Stand...

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Categories: america, angst, black african
Form: Lyric
Insufficient Love Can Be
When love fills your breath and the air
the feel is strong and you can dare
Love, you tend to glamorise
and in words you aphorise
Dreams of princesses and knights
all is great as you reach heights.

That love is more than enough
tough times you would rise above.

Think about love...

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Categories: can, black love, crush, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Can I Trust
The left hand doesn’t know 
What the right hand is doing

Beware it may hold a knife
And stab you in the back

Jan Allison
27th November 2014...

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Categories: can, anger,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone to forget the taste of air
Deluge by the scenery - unbelievable footage 18 seconds long,  
Eric Garner GONE... ...

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Categories: can, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things