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Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: collect, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Poems Are Children To Me
My poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...

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Categories: collect, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Treasure In Adversity
i am no longer
lost in the labyrinth
of your twisted mentality

i kiss the lips of freedom

once you drove
me insane in the brain
now stubborn stains wash away

i...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collect, hope, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Free verse
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: collect, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
My Solace, a Poet's Thoughts On Poetry
The wonder of nature you describe with the color of feelings 
that even the blind sees the beauty, for you anoint with your sight.
From my...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collect, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: collect, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Essence of Love Collaboration With Vijay Pandit
What is a man without the woman he loves,
searching for his lady like lonesome doves.
As his heart connects with the one he adores,
his soul will...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collect, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring Sonnet
Spring Sonnet

Elevate my senses with your flowers
In spacious fields where they are free to grow.
Deep in fragrant flora I could spend hours
Refreshed by rain where...

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Categories: collect, flower, nature, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder
He can turn the crank, to tunes of happy song,
One that his crowd has cherished for long,
But something has so terribly gone wrong
For someone has...

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Categories: collect, emotions, farewell, music,
Form: Rhyme
Tell It To the Rain
Like the cloud, I am collecting the moisture in memory,
Soaking up the solitude, I have been alone in misery.
Feeling full on failure, droplet wall builds...

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Categories: collect, hurt, rain, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: collect, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member frozen farewell -
your breath upon the window freezes lace
        yet warm against my cheek, its somber strains
   ...

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Categories: collect, analogy, christmas, goodbye, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member If Death Should Visit Me Today

IF DEATH SHOULD VISIT ME TODAY
Whether young or old and gray
As earthly life is swept away
Please do not mourn, do not be sad
Just think of...

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Categories: collect, death, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When a Poet's Promise Dies
I tried to create a poetic dream,
to fulfill our promise,
but we became a victim 
to fate's wounding ways.

My flower garden lies in ruins,
suffering in silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collect, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Painting With Stardust
From night to night
I searched in a distant sky
To catch a falling star
To collect its silver dust
which fell ever so slow
upon the life-lines of my...

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Categories: collect, metaphor,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs