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Premium Member Christmas Castaways
Christmas Castaways

My good friend Jerry’s unemployment had run out
I feared print journalism’s future was in doubt

But while we commiserated on Christmas Eve
A disheartening report was...

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Categories: castaways, christmas, friend, holiday,
Form: Couplet



The Castaways
the castaways  walk alone.
down the many allies, roads.
looking for someone to take,
them in, for a meal, for rest.

for a kind hand to hold them.
to...

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Categories: castaways, animals
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Castaways
Castaways
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Categories: castaways, beautiful, butterfly, paradise, rainforest,
Form: Haiku
Categories: castaways, society, war,
Form: Ballad
~ Venus and Mars ~
As the stars cross this brumous night ~

Standing here with these white washing tides

Carrying away the sands beneath my feet

Glancing beyond the repetitious of this...

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Categories: castaways, life, love, passion, peopleme,
Form: I do not know?



~ Venus and Mars ~
As the stars cross this brumous night ~

Standing here with these white washing tides

Carrying away the sands beneath my feet

Glancing beyond the repetitious of this...

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Categories: castaways, loveme, stars,
Form: I do not know?
Double J - Just Jetsam
Marred and minced remnants pile high in a storm’s swarm
Yesterdays, hardened-soft, surface where sea’s warm…

Flotsam found, lays tales around, in frayed traces
Another shattered shell whimpers...

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Categories: castaways, allusion,
Form: Masnavi
Life Is War
Life is war

Life is war....
we go to battle every single day,
feeling more and more like castaways,
in this ever churning sea


Oh, oh, life is war....
with each...

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Categories: castaways, conflict, courage, endurance, future,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Dream Sweeper
I’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castaways, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
You Take My Breath Away
Seductive verses written with strong attraction, you take my breath away,
lingering kisses beyond Venus, loves distraction, you take my breath away.

Passionate intentions between two loving...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castaways, love, passion,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member The Fallen Angel
A far away rumbling draws near,
An eerie calm, ensues all things,
Remain still. 
Silence reigns, nature holds,
It's breath,
Carried upon shifting winds
Hear soft whispers calling, beware.
Heavens valets...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castaways, angel, beautiful, faith, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Sins of Our Fathers
The sins of our fathers cast such long and unremorseful shadows
   Leaving in its quake such a painful sting as only God would...

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Categories: castaways, caregiving, childhood, family, father,
Form: Lyric
Creations Song
As rain clouds clear striated blue
And sun streaks write their names once more
Upon dawn meadows tranquil green
And all along the distant shore,
On far horizons dappled...

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Categories: castaways, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Message In a Bottle
Castaway in the isles of obscurity
I pen my diary in blood
Encased within poetic bottles
And cast them on the temporal winds
Into the sea of humanity.

It is...

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Categories: castaways, hope, poems, writing,
Form: Free verse
Something Between Us
There's something between us.
However, I can't  name it.
I only know it's priceless
And can be bitter or sweet.

There's something between us
Though we both still disown...

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Categories: castaways, life, love, people,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs