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Premium Member "toronto Classic"
For: Scavenger Hunt
In Honor of: ~Constance~Rambling Poet

Rambling around in a traffic jam,
Poetess naked and on the lam.
  Constance’s very neat trick,
  Behind a thin chopstick,
In the buff, dreaming a bluff, dream scam!!

Though diligently she did try,
`T was a failure to dignify,
   By her most classic stance,
   For without any...

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Categories: classic, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Open Thine Own Heart
Immerse in the tranquility of truth 
And believe in the opulence of your
Devine being, BEHOLD IT,
As the proof, You seek is THOU
As Heaven’s Breath of Spiritual eloquence
As an Infinite horizon
In the radiance of light of Heaven
As beyond Yourself 
As LOVE with Conscious intent
In the waves of Tenderness  
Ascending and Receding 
To return to the...

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Categories: classic, faith, humanity, love, religious,
Form: Lyric
A Classic Summer In Greece For Fantasy Contest
A CLASSIC SUMMER IN GREECE

               Viciousness and mystery erupt on arid soil.
               Summer heat and idle time can make the spirits boil.
     ...

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Categories: classic, life, lost love, love,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Dwm Senior Dance Days
“…Let the sunshine (and let the sun shine on in)
Let the sunshine in (You got to open up your heart)…"
-- From Aquarius, by The 5th Dimension


The times they were a-changing,
an age of great unrest.
A Ball of Confusion raging,
divisive with protest.

The Moon was in the seventh house,
the President nefarious.
A time for growth, a time to grouse,
the...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: classic, 12th grade, age, growing
Form: Rhyme
Classic Grumblings
The piano grumbled at his touch,
Playing fortissimo on command...
Nerves of steel snapping a string.

Ambitious to a fault, practicing the night into alarm,
Lizst spilled from the printed page
Like sour milk for a feral cat.

As he rose from the bench, music in hand,
An audible whispered relief rustled the curtains
And silence cradled the grateful room....

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Categories: classic, funny, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trailblazer
I was a classic 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air, in mint condition, admiral and white.
My owner had other beautiful, classic cars, like stars sparkling into twilight.

My owner loved his old cars, saying 'they don't make them like they used to;'
And I enjoyed getting out upon the open road, to show him what I could do.

My fellow cars...

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Categories: classic, appreciation, car, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet



Classic Excellent Line
C-lassic
E-xcellent
L-ine
I-n
A-crostic

T-opic
H-as
A-mazing
X factor
T-o
E-ncourage
R-eaders

Topic: Birthday of Poetess Celia Thaxter (June 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: classic, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member - Marilyn Monroe, Absolutely Classic -
Your bones

                                          Your skin ~

         ...

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Categories: classic, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Classic Vinyl Love Poem
The radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the sound where love begins.
If only for the moment, they have won.

“Something” that George found
In the way she moves and smiles
Made him ‘believe and how’.

Millions search forever and still 
“Want To...

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Categories: classic, hope, love, music,
Form: Free verse
On December's Throne (Classic Poetry Cento)
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
alone with the enduring Earth, and Night.
With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape;
who wrestles with his dream; as some pale shape.
Their sharp black heads against a quiet sky,
where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.
As if the vanward clouds of evil days
Call to the HOURS, that...

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Categories: classic, philosophynight, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Classic Rock N Roll
Carlo Santana's Black Magic Woman,
in the 60's and 70's gave magic to his 
band.. 

Drugs were part of this movement it's
fair to say. Getting high for many, 
while listening to their music, was the
common way

   Peace signs, beads, bell bottoms,
psychedelic shirts, desert boots, and
long hair and marijuana, is what was 
in style. Looking...

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Categories: classic, drug, music,
Form: Rhyme
Young Lochinvar - a Parody of the Classic By the Same Title
O young Lochinvar is come out of the west,
Through all the wide Country this guy they detest,
And save armpit noises he talent had none,
He thought they were funny and thought they were fun.
He thought that his 'talent' would make him a star,
But no one did care for the young Lochinvar.

He left San Francisco and charged...

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Categories: classic, humor, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Doc Holiday Classic
The loudmouth cowboy was challenged by an inebriated Doc Holiday.
"Draw your weapon sir," slurred the doc, "I'm your huckleberry."
"You're drunk as a skunk," said the cowboy, "probably seeing double too."
Mr Holiday responded, "Yes sir, that is very true,
but I have two guns,.. one for each of you."...

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Categories: classic, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Classic Movies
CLASSIC MOVIES

it is surprising
how fine black and white can be
one listens better

one notices more
each word clear as a bell
folks keep their clothes on

blood flow minimum
black and white blood not so gross
favorites are great –

clark, cary, spenser.
katherine, audry, ginger
to love without lust

as I get older,
caring not for violence,
i watch more and more...

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Categories: classic, film,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Classic Night Hums
as night classic fades

humming one two Mozart notes 

lovers gently kiss



Judy Konos' Get Your Senryu On Contest
4/11/15...

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Categories: classic, music, peace,
Form: Senryu

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry