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Premium Member The Breadth of My Love
if my love for you was any greater
the trees would  line up in poetic forms
...awe you in sonnets written...
...part...to allow winds to cool your...

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Categories: contain, love, planet, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: contain, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Without Lament
I have no sorrow, for sorrow is small,
And can't be held guilty for choices made.
Reflections are scrawled on my mind's dark wall,
And will leave stains...

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Categories: contain, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.

In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contain, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Love's Eternal Death
The hollow eyes of love are never gone
They keep within the waves of trembled tears
From days so poor when love was looked upon
And one where...

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Categories: contain, emotions, lost love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Poem For Whomever
she is tranquillity
yet lava flows in her veins

cut her open and you'll burn

she is Eve's apple
nemesis to patriarchy

one bite and you'll bleed

she is a rainbow
an...

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Categories: contain, friendship, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: contain, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Waning Years
My Waning Years

As my waning years return me to reverie
I dream about the days we spent with sylvan trees
As sunset casts its golden glow on...

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Categories: contain, autumn, romantic love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Dedication To Ink Empress

She's like the night, a lampshade lit across the room 
also a rose in a summer garden always ready to bloom  
She's like a...

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Categories: contain, analogy, friend, poets, sister,
Form: Sonnet
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: contain, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Hello and Goodbye Coco
HELLO AND GOODBYE COCO	

I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting...

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Categories: contain, death, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mirror of a Son's Eyes
He 
has certainly 
perfected the art 
of being a smart a** -
a trait that swims like a tadpole 
in his father’s gene pool
and nurtured by...

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Categories: contain, art, feelings, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Will You Catch Me
If I should reach out, will you take my hand,
and hold me ‘til I reach that promised land?
Will you stay with me after tears have...

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Categories: contain, courage, depression, faith, loss,
Form: Sestina
Time
Time! Those minute and 
Angular grains...
Wherein,  subscribed to 
Each hypothesized increment
Forever,
All supposedly contain
A singular ticking second from yet 
Just another incumbent 
Universe:-
Man's futile attempt...

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Categories: contain, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight
Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight


When our love, its hottest and satisfying nights first begun
we each tried to give our...

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Categories: contain, appreciation, devotion, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

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