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Premium Member Casual Lace
Sweet Sensation of Whispering Words -...

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Categories: casual, imagery, poetry, sensual,
Form: Shape



Once Upon a Purple Sunrise
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise

Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.

Haloed in hazy...

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Categories: casual, memory, morning, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Baby Steps
I took a walk with God today,
His pace far more casual than
mine. His voice a bit softer,
calmer. His visions, far more
loftier, but not views to...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: casual, change, christian, confidence, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lives I Have Known Potd
It has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.

My...

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Categories: casual, absence, house, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member It Took All My Courage To Write and Post This Poem
I wish I’d had the courage to ask you
why you treated me so differently to my sibling

You gave her private education at Norland  -
yet...

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Categories: casual, confusion, father,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dangerous Dalliance
Perilous is the journey, sordid is the quest, flashing flirtatious desire,
Treacherous is gaudy aspiration, playing with torrid flames of fire;
No matter how thrilling, how visceral...

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Categories: casual, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sweet Deathly Rose
Oh, mild flower I chanced to meet,
A ruby red, yet so discreet.
She'd never seen a hue my blue.
Sweet deathly rose that I once knew.

Her fragrance...

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Categories: casual, friendship, loss, me, rose,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member The Star Witness Potd
While we walked home from the movies, one moonlit starry night,
My friends and I talked and laughed, enjoying summer's delights.

The streets were quite silent, as...

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Categories: casual, creation, fantasy, friendship, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Prostitution of Her Love
“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...

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Categories: casual, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Warning - Certain Poets May Wish To Change Their Name
Well guys I’m going to tell you a secret
You don’t really know me
I have not been honest 
I am not who I say I am
Yesterday...

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Categories: casual, humorous,
Form: Narrative
What's Fair Is Fair
What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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Categories: casual, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Countdown
Ten is the number to begin
Early in the garden
Gathering herbs, foxglove and more
On her face casual grin

Nine are the ingredients here
Placed in beef stew to...

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Categories: casual, betrayal, death, fear, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Ocean Pleasure
Social Media is raving about my seafood haven.
Any ocean gift you wish is on my menu list.
It is known for chocolate bliss in any form...

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Categories: casual, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Is
Poetry is white lights falling upon rainbows and snow
Casual exchanges blinked upon a shared pillow
Lip prints etched inside an antiquated photograph
The obligatory holding of hands...

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Categories: casual, art, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Victor
Dear Victor

The day you walked in I was just ten years old and for the first time I felt the gentle butterfly flutters of a...

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Categories: casual, childhood, first love,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs