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Premium Member Classical Music
I'm in the mood for Mozart, or Strauss, perhaps Beethoven,
   Even Bach or Handel would soothe this soul of mine tonight;
  ...

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Categories: classical, music,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti, 
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony 
of sunflower serenades.

In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...

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Categories: classical, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - The Swan Princess -
                       Every day...

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Categories: classical, beauty, dance, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Panorama of Primrose Promises
 In the valley 
    of violin vines,
    when the saffron sun ascends,
and crooning clouds 
   drift...

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Categories: classical, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbeats in Heaven
Sometimes when 
moonlight weeps to sleep,
I sit, draped 
in burning dreams,
and beautiful nightmares 
of moments lost,
engraved along the rising
of blushing blossoms,
within cerulean azure.

But shadows fade,...

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Categories: classical, absence, destiny, heaven, i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: classical, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retired
Throw me high, higher still
Let me breathe again, 
Let me gain
height, I will
Live, smile, laugh, be filled
        ...

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Categories: classical, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Cheerful Robins Dance
Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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Categories: classical, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Penultimate Prefix of Passion
As the final glimpse 
of the sun leads into 
an everlasting spectacle 
of twinkling dreams, 
peeking through 
    turmeric traces 
of an...

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Categories: classical, deep, destiny, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That I Am
You know me as a poet, and writer of poems sad,
I take poetic license, violating rules and conventions;
telling a story using figurative language, I share,
...

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Categories: classical, art, books, life, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In Land of Cockaigne
I was driving home late one cold Winters night
It was minus ten and the moon shone bright
Then in my car headlights a young girl I...

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Categories: classical, car, chocolate, fantasy, girl,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Voice
emotion and tears

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Categories: classical, emotions,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Sequel - Dance To Love - Part 2
I awake to the beautiful plaintive strains
Of a violin - then realize it’s just in my head
Just a dream - a shame to find
I’m in...

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Categories: classical, dance, death, emotions, environment,
Form: Narrative
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: classical, feelings, first love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sounds of Splendor
Sounds of Splendor
 
Some say songs soothe the savage beast
On gentle melodies I feast
Sensual pleasures increase
 
Swing me, sway me, elevate me
Joyful psalms can jubilate...

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Categories: classical, happiness, history, musicbeauty, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

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