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Premium Member Slinky Spirals
A helical "Slinky" type coil
Compresses or springs without toil,
It’s spiral at times,
Or stretched to the nines...
Like worms that are happy in soil!

Beneath or on top...

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Categories: compresses, earth, growth, spring,
Form: Limerick



Sorrow
She sits alone 
She draws her knees up to her shoulders, hugging them tightly
She shivers in the icy wind 
Her teeth chatter and the stream...

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Categories: compresses, death, depression, loss, sadheart,
Form: Narrative
Singularity
Falling into the vortex,
there is no escape
You're sucked in,
getting sub-atomically stripped
is your inevitable fate
No more straight line of linear time
No more clearly defined dimensions of...

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Categories: compresses, perspective, space, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
As Little Boys
As little boys 
we rode bikes
fast down the dunes,
on the vertical side
of Sand City

Big tires creased
deep furrows 
in the down-slope,
same as boats trailing
wakes upon the...

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Categories: compresses, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Half Measures
This is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or...

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Categories: compresses, suicide, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Hypocrisy of the Village Flock
Hypocrisy within the Village Flock

As the seasons of my life changes, glorious it may not be!!
Valley bells summons the flock to chapel.
Heavily polished Pews squeak,...

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Categories: compresses, betrayal, character, christian, conflict,
Form: Pastoral
Goddess In Training
I wade into the water that is my aquatic sun,
suited to perform miracles, refusing reprieve until work is done. 
I exist as a modern day...

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Categories: compresses, funny, health, inspirational, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angry Earth
The power we now witness is only the start
An angry earth she is, her tectonic plates in depart
Seconds later they again meet with abrasive force
The...

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Categories: compresses, loss, natural disasters, sadcare,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member First Day of the Year, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Premier De L'An By T Wignesan
First Day of the Year, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Premier de l’an by T. Wignesan

Each moment of waking up is an act of giving birth
I...

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Categories: compresses, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Your Absence- a Nightmare and An Absolute Disaster
Your chase!
Reminiscing on the oceans I had to dry up
and the volcanos I had to ice up
just to capture the epicenter of your heart
well protected...

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Categories: compresses, loneliness, lonely, love, relationship,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member The Big Bang Theory
In the beginning there was a "Big Bang"
God spoke and the universe ring
Everything in the universe sing hail to the King
He said Light Be, light...

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Categories: compresses, age, beauty, bible, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love's Timeless World
My love floats across the ground of my eyes.
Coming nearer to unravel love's heart,
And claim reason for its deeper sighs.
To lift these eyes, joyous love...

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Categories: compresses, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Topsy-Turvy Love
Topsy-Turvy Love

Love turns the world upside down
slows the axial rotation
draws out passion’s sunset
compresses the hours together
shrinks the horizon to one face
cresting pillowed mountains.



5/2/2016

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Categories: compresses, confusion, love, lust, passion,
Form: Verse
Fire
It can kill you.

The more you feed it, the more it craves
you. You try to control it, but the chemistry is
too heated up, so you...

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Categories: compresses, life, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Important
Block after block there is a man.
Outstretched hands
presenting a brown-stained 
Starbucks cup.

Steadfast, I must look straight.
Businesslike gait 
creating the illusion that 
I have somewhere important...

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Categories: compresses, urban,
Form: Free verse

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