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Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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Categories: charades, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In Memory Leonard Cohen
The End of Love

A secret grief rips apart all that was
Slaves to the sexual caresses of time
Stallions in black gallop gallantly in fields
Of spring full...

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Categories: charades, death, dedication, memory, november,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Serendipity
August wind, glass moon,serendipity...
two chairs gazing at each other in tender flow.
Hundred miles away, clouds gather
to fondle the opening and closing
of after- midnight refrains,
both trespassing...

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Categories: charades, magic, romance,
Form: Free verse
Latent Desires
A world of illusions procreates
blinking sustained delusions
existence shivering in probabilities
memories afloat in traces astray
If only I were a meteor 
I'd cross those barriers
to merge their...

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Categories: charades, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Spanish Eyes - Part 3
Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
                 residing inside of...

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Categories: charades, green, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Three Doors
I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an...

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Categories: charades, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member How Many Times?
How many times can you express friendship and support
Only to realize these feelings will never be returned

How many times can you fool yourself
Saying, "This is...

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Categories: charades, friendshipfeelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Night Awaits the Dawn
Some boys with cheek play hide and seek within a house condemned
their faces gaunt reflecting want that’s hard to comprehend.

With veiled excuse an old recluse...

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Categories: charades, death, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914
In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with...

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Categories: charades, christmas, friendship, hope, love,
Form: Narrative
Anansi and the Christmas Cake
It was Christmas time in Anansi’s house
But Anansi was snoring loud and deep
While all the house was up and busy
Sneaky Anansi was pretending to sleep

Anansi...

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Categories: charades, celebration, children, christmas, kids,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Handmaid of Lush , August
Bold August…
 handmaid of lush
   kindling night flames
     with embellished prance…
   I touch  her 
 ...

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Categories: charades, august, happiness, summer,
Form: Verse
Premium Member City Haikus
This garden city
Concrete skyscrapers loom;
Greenery punctuate


Tree-lined avenues
Bourgainvillea clusters;
Traffic jam companions


Waltzing slowly
Overhead bridge;
Ant-people below


Old neighbourhood
Heartland community;
Ageing populace


Feeble old lady
Speeds on wheels;
Electric commotion


Playground
For small kids and big;
Noisy...

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Categories: charades, identity,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I That Because of Your Attack, Will Never Yield
I That Because Of Your Attack, Will Never Yield.

No single tear given, nor I gift you an open field
so yes, make merry with your hatred...

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Categories: charades, character, conflict, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Undertow
The Great Escape - The Birds - Charade - The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone 
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World-
Civil rights, Viet Nam 
The...

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Categories: charades, death, history, november,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zenith of Design
Can a god build walls on the horizon 
Hang chandeliers from zeniths above 
Let the ocean drain into the nadir 
Turn platitudes of doubt into...

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Categories: charades, allegory, allusion, creation, god,
Form: Rhyme

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