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Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: collection, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: collection, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collection, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
As Morning Light Unfurls
"Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune,...

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Categories: collection, morning, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gifts of Reflection
The Angels have come
to take me away
The only hug I can give
are the words I write today
In my shaking hand
They've placed a golden pen
So I...

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Categories: collection, courage, giving,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed—

fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s...

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Categories: collection, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midas Touch
~Do Not Trust a Word, He Says~

He speaks of sunken treasures the way no other man 
The map of his essence is drawn in the...

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Categories: collection, fantasy, kiss, love, sexy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Philosopher's Stone
Do Not Trust a Word, she says

She speaks of sunken treasures the way no one else does
The map to her heart is drawn by the...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collection, art, deep, desire, lust,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collection, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Olive's Cinnamon Bark
Olive’s Cinnamon Bark

It took her some while to sense the meaning of feeling good in her skin

Her mirror her prism her mosaic glass and the...

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Categories: collection, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Boardwalk - a Sensual Love Story
Sheer poetry in motion with a picnic basket in hand 
Laughing brandishing a bottle as he lopes along the sand
His handsome features completely wreathed in...

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Categories: collection, love, lust, romance, sensual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shores of Uncertainty
As his mind drifts upon silent shores of uncertainty, 
he ponders what was, what is and what is yet to come.
He wonders why no one...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: collection, analogy, dark, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry Recital
Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...

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Categories: collection, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Listener
Start at the start
ask your questions
Although I’m no priest 
I will hear your confession
Divulge your sins
no judgement or correction
Within my skeleton closet
I have my own...

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Categories: collection, angst, courage, flower,
Form: Free verse
A New Day, a New World, a New Tomorrow
A new day, a new world, a new tomorrow

Shades of painted corners
face these inward fears
Now drenched in today’s worries,
as flat as the cornerstone of suffering
caught...

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Categories: collection, lost, love, trust,
Form: Free verse

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