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Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: common, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poets
When all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring...

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Categories: common, appreciation, encouraging, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Glory of Her Magnificence
Oceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.

Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: common, change, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
ONE WORD~

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my veins,
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Categories: common, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form: Epic
Cocaine Is Her Name
COCAINE Is Her Name  ( Addiction )

COCAINE is her name. They call her COKE for short.
She came into this Country, without a Passport.
Since then...

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Categories: common, addiction,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Joined By Words
~ for my fellow poets ~


as slaves to the pen
or our keyboard, more apt
this molding of words
in a word, holds us rapt

fine fancies or fears
take...

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Categories: common, appreciation, friendship, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
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Categories: common, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Odd Od Dodo
Idyllically Odylically Odd I Be
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Categories: common, appreciation, bird, introspection, society,
Form: Shape
Premium Member The Gift of Poetry
A poet enters a private sanctuary,
A sacred place where the imagination
Dwells with a mélange of emotions
Conceived by aesthetic beauty,
Often divine and esoteric in nature;
That comprehensive...

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Categories: common, art, poetry, uplifting, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: common, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Every Poet In You Quenches a Fire
It was quite a time
when with my mind you used to rhyme
and in the tune of my heart you sign.

That time was quite long
when I...

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Categories: common, art, beauty, heart, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
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: common, 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: common, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shoreline
The ocean waves come rolling in
There’s not a soul in sight
With heaving breath they break on shore
And burst in brilliant white.

The sound of wind is...

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Categories: common, sea, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snowflakes
Snowflakes

Sunlight glistens off crystal snowflakes
As they float and flutter through the sky
Like butterflies in their freedom of flight,
Never knowing where they might alight.
They leave us...

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Categories: common, beauty, metaphor, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs