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Premium Member Lips Forever Joined
Kiss me passionately
Kiss with untetherd lips
Lips that are ripe
Lips that long to know everything
Everything waits for it's time
Everything has possibilities
Possibilities beyond limitations
Possibilities are laying in...

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Categories: contained, first love, happiness, innocence,
Form: Blitz



Premium Member Come Into My House Lord
For Brother Jacob, our fellow poet,
who lives his life
real and true to the call of God:

COME INTO MY HOUSE LORD

Come into my house Lord.
Anoint my...

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Categories: contained, christian, family,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contained, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunting
Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me 
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...

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Categories: contained, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unstoppable
My hope/wish for mankind is that 
a small ember or flame would 
ignite causing a fire in our hearts
worldwide.

Causing a fire that can not be...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contained, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Murmurs
I gather in the scarred 
and broken forms,
the lipped imperfections
that score the wind
to give voice to an evening. 
I see through the lesions
that open to...

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Categories: contained, poetry, spiritual, voice,
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: contained, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contained, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 365 Days
"This is dedicated to all who understand this. Whether we like it or not." -D.J.E.

I wasn’t gonna write this

But

Emotions are stirring high
Cannot believe
How much time...

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Categories: contained, anniversary, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thy Beautiful Heart: the Blue Faery's Baby
"Thy Beautiful Heart : The Blue Faery’s Baby"


'Tis brave the heart 
of a lionhearted cub 
When Butterflies 
aren’t pretty
Aren’t all what they seem

Monsters that do...

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Categories: contained, angel, courage, faith, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Relativity of Beyond
Bacteria, too small for human eyes
engage their fight for life within our midst,
so unaware of Earth's gigantic spies
with microscopes and slides, who co-exist.

And tiny fish,...

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Categories: contained, life, relationship, space, universe,
Form: Sonnet
Guess Who's Back, Offence and Pain Aint Two of the Same
Who'd have thought words make them react like this,
failing to see my wit, just the unattractiveness.
An eye for crudeness that'll overpower the humorous.
I'm sure within...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contained, slam, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Life As Poetry
"My Life as Poetry"



When the Lotus Eaters at Loon Junction barked
I ignored their confused chicanery
closed the gates behind me

I dropped one tear
in your sedentary ocean
it...

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Categories: contained, child abuse, poetry, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moved To Tears By Josh Groban
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Categories: contained, music, on writing and
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Day As a Woman
When I awoke, a woman I'd become
The spirit of many, contained in one
Strength and beauty, mystical tears
Magical entity, who hated mirrors

Looking at reflection, I seen...

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Categories: contained, encouraging, feelings, journey, voice,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things