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Premium Member And I Am Grateful
A field of wheat cloaked in dewy silence
the orchestra tunes up with avian arias
bullfrog basses and a choir of cawing crows,
xanthic sunflowers turning their heads...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse



...."the Wedding At Dreamendon" ~
Dressing the ancient stars amid their anthem weddings attire....

The universe anxiously anticipating these adorned galaxies of, anew ~

Bookplate bridesmaids, with such glittering eyes and broadening...

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Categories: commencing, faith, happiness, holiday, love
Form: I do not know?
Chameleons
Chameleons

  Chameleons we must be

      In a world forever changing

         ...

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Categories: commencing, life, people, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music

Music
Eight little notes
Strung upon the lines
Pages of magical dancing combinations

Eight little notes
Opening the doors of humanities soul
Mathematical rhythms in colors you see
Keeping...

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Categories: commencing, music,
Form: Verse
Stranded
A raging river tenaciously floods
Tannins and silts combine to dark blood

A hut, just fifty metres, occupying their sight
Two men, cold and wearied, stuck for the...

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Categories: commencing, adventure, earth, nature, success,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Lake
The lake was only small
But we boated.
Not far to go...

Back and forth
On the little lake
And watching the boat go.

Back and forth and go  -
Using...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, boat, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Southend Pier
Pevec in Czech -
a poet in our tongue,
and I see him there, composing.
His poem is about the sea,
and how the crabs are dancing
slowly to its...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member White Mittens
Fog came early to Nebraska,
and slender churches became hidden.
Pastors came out of them with scarves,
their children tight-dressed 
       ...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Inspissiated
Love inspissiated*
when she was tired of it.
It had run its course.
She wished she could send 
it back to the cleaners,
or whatever you do with
inspissiation.

It sounded...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
For Rent
Frame is solid, some refurbishing needed; I have a room for rent
Only needs a few repairs and my patience has well been spent
Ready for immediate...

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Categories: commencing, confusion, life, sad,
Form: Acrostic
Astronomers
Teleporting into your giant...galaxy 
Eclipsed in time...lost in outer space.
Jumping from start to star
While...holding one captive.

My love comets...yearning...your quaker body,
As...asteroids...attack my sensitive...soul.
A magnetic field...forces my...

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Categories: commencing, adventure, fantasy, passionlove, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lovers Fairytale
Blissful  blossoms blooming
Look lustful lovers
Listless lovers looming

Krazy killer kisses
Swelter summer  season
Belly breathing  blouses

Bayside beaches burning 
Winter worries wane
Glorious gracious gains

Happy hungry hearts
Dwellings...

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Categories: commencing, beautiful, passion, summer,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A New Poem
A new poem -
Let me revel in its newness
As I beat the way.
Let me count its lines
And wish it well
As it streams across the continents
And...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lone Lily
I had tea under a balcony,
and admired the roses
cascading down
graciously 

A lone lily
awaiting water...
I breathed in its cool fragrance
before leaving 

By mistake 
I left my...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commencing, imagery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lovers Fairytale
Blissful  blossoms blooming
Look LUSTFUL lovers
Listless lovers looming 

Krazy killer kisses
Sweltering SUMMER season
Belly breathing blouses

Bayside BEACHES burning
Winter worries wane
Glorious gracious gains

HAPPY hungry hearts
Dwellings do not...

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Categories: commencing, happy, love, lust, summer,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Shattered Sighs