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Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: china, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member C'Est La Vie
They had fought.

He left without a word... 
...while she was sleeping.

She threw on the gown she had worn for him the night before,
pushed off the...

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Categories: china, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Moon, You
you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant,...

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Categories: china, analogy, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi

Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: china, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by...

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Categories: china, absence, love,
Form: Free verse



The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul
a caramelized breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back into ninth grade
where we sat side by side
Your...

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Categories: china, absence, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - But I - 2
The rain outside plays games with the webs that cloud my mind,
I think I hear a tune. A drum solo that heralds memories buried deep
and...

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Categories: china, introspection,
Form: Free verse
I Belong To the Lake
 I wander far from the coal-tar smog
and buzzing sounds of the city
to a place where I can smell
fresh-cut hay in a tepid breeze.
I stroll...

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Categories: china, beautiful, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where the Heart Resides
Like open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea

Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs...

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Categories: china, heart, love, me, old,
Form: Personification
Hot Chocolate, Coffee and Tea
 I sure                      ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: china, silly,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Teetotaler
In Ordinary Cups

The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in...

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Categories: china, memory,
Form: Terzanelle
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

A caramelised breeze of fruit odours

reverberating  softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade

where we sat side by...

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Categories: china, absence, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Task
The old screen door still welcomes me, a familiar song I've heard before..
But oddly now, it's out of tune, a strange new wail of some...

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Categories: china, death, friendship, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shade From the Past
Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...

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Categories: china, art, nostalgia, people,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member It Is the Scent of Your Soul
In my arms secure I delicately brush back your hair,
Touch your skin almost imperceptibly  
Your eyes vanish into mine.
I feel miraculously lost in your splendor...

but...

it...

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Categories: china, love, romance,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs