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Premium Member 12-31-23: A Number's Existential Crisis
'Twas the twilight of the year, a twinkling tiara,
December 31st, digits dancing dunes in the Sahara.
One, two, three, one, two, three, it's a prance,
A numerical...

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Categories: canon, celebration, hilarious, holiday, humor,
Form: Lyric



Speechless Spoken Word Artiste
SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE

So if my vocal folds can’t collaborate to produce sounds to communicate loudly to your beautiful mind that I have an endless...

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Categories: canon, art, beauty, emotions, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Temple of the Butterfly
I am the void
I am the wrath
I am the undulating sun seraph
In the temple of the butterfly
The shadow is my alibi 

~moths, in rooms full...

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Categories: canon, death, humanity, silence, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Trip of My Life
the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in...

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Categories: canon, travel,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canon, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Narrative



Volga 1 - 3
( while taking a tour through those poems readers are requested to keep in their hands,  a
feather from the pea-cock’s tail )

Volga - 1...

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Categories: canon, fantasy
Form: Prose Poetry
A Ambiguous Music of Love
Still  could feel the saccharine notes
played on the alluring eyes where I lost myself
for a while.
It flattered  the  vanity of the ...

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© Nilima Deb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canon, destiny, emotions, life, love,
Form: Free verse
The Revolver
Scene 1:

There once was a man
filled with joy
a wife, a home
and a cute infant boy

Everything was grand
with twins on the way.
A spontaneous dog
who liked to...

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Categories: canon, loss, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Oblivion
Sit and watch the thin, blank dawn
that never quite sweeps you off your feet.
Wrestle with memories that don't want to be suppressed,
and repress the urge...

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Categories: canon, allegory, depression, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skelton Bones
Down in the crypt where the caskets lie
And dust stirs up when trucks go by
Giggling sounds, not moans and groans
From the tomb of Skelton Bones

When...

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Categories: canon, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
When Our Cup Does Not Run Over
Sin is a revelation. It is God who shows us OUR sin. He also points to the BLOOD OF JESUS as the antidote. Sin is...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canon, allusion, anxiety, bible, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Salon of Forbidden Thought
The Salon of Forbidden Ideas
is a place where the free-thinkers go
to express their unsanctioned opinions
and explore what they aren't meant to know...

At twilight, they slip...

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Categories: canon, america, analogy, freedom, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Symphony In the Desert
Ragged notes of unsung sorrow
stretch toward the heavens
in undefined
agony

trails of symphony
aching for forgiveness
follow in pristine  pitch

night sky alive with 
unearthly splendor, eclipsing
moons, stars and...

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Categories: canon, forgiveness, happiness, hope, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Labyrinth of Sighs
Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go...

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Categories: canon, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Door Unlocked, Please Close Behind You
The church door was unlocked
So I went inside
Many pews had spider web barriers in place
Yet the linen was clean and ironed
Dates of mass clearly on...

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Categories: canon, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs