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Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: characteristic, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Poet Convention 2014
Poet Convention

Lost in a poets convention, 
I can't recall every poem, I've read through the years
50518, unique comments I 'validate'--- 
Thank You For Sharing Your...

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Categories: characteristic, celebration, character, dedication, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Our Love
(Groom speaks...)
In this world are things to contemplate.
Therefore, life can be complicated.
Stairs we must climb to overcome conflict.
Heaven is an open door of realities.
As my...

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Categories: characteristic, appreciation, blessing, courage, desire,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Heartbeats On Pas De Deux
HEARTBEATS ON PAS FE DEUX

Starstruck by your smile as I opened my eyes
Snow-white cheeks glows to peaches sweet
Running fingertip to heart shaped lips

As spring breeze...

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Categories: characteristic, feelings, first love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Secret of The Rainbow
Where is the secret of the rainbow?
At the edge of one's own life?
Whence does it come, with those lovely pastel colours?
Is it a heavenly art...

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Categories: characteristic, rainbow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Spontaneity
Even as a child, how I used to enjoy
A simple stroll through the woods 
When innocent instincts ruled my heart
And ran after every call from...

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Categories: characteristic, beauty, childhood, growth, happiness,
Form: Free verse
A Mother's Treasures
A solitary piece the diamond 
precious rare gem most treasured 
by those lucky enough to hold 
Once in possession, it is rarely out of grasp...

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Categories: characteristic, beautiful, beauty, care, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Texas Wildflower Haiku : Widow's Tears
sun’s heat sunders sand
clustered lanced leaves green hug
widow’s tears collapse

Widow’s Tears is the common name for Commelina erecta var. angustifolia, they bloom on 
Texas beaches...

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Categories: characteristic, death, depression, loss, nature,
Form: Haiku
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: characteristic, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
Ode To My Chiro
My body’s friend, the Chiropractor
gives me exactly what I’m after.
A reduction of serious pain 
in my skeletal frame is my aim.
To be enabled to be...

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Categories: characteristic, healthme, pain, me,
Form: Couplet
A Little About Me
01. High heels or boots? I guess it depends on how feminine I feel....LOL
02. What time did you get up this morning? 7:15 am ...

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Categories: characteristic, funnyfood,
Form: I do not know?
Hope
Hope
I care not for the odds
Spoken by sooth sayer voices
They are blinded by statistics 
For a seemingly sure concept
Though a bleakness dampens 
Every fainting ray...

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Categories: characteristic, hope,
Form: Blank verse
Why Do I Write
Out of all the questions I have been asked in life
None of them stump me more like this:

Why do I write?

It does not stump me...

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Categories: characteristic, courage, dedication, love, on
Form: I do not know?
Ambition and U
Ambitions slide off the tongue as quick as they race through the mind
Ambitions of wealth, fame, health, and all that are sublime
But what is not...

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Categories: characteristic,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Character and Personality
As
 
liquids accommodate themselves
 
by 

taking the shape of the vessel they are

poured into

so 

one's personality is developed  

by 

adjusting to the mold his...

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Categories: characteristic, analogy, character, people,
Form: Free verse

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