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Premium Member How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways
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and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and...

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Categories: contract, love,
Form: List



Premium Member One Master
I signed a contract with the state
to use my body as they will.
My mind they did manipulate.
In the name of freedom, I would kill.

I never...

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© Jan Terry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contract, baptism, god, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Drew a Heart
I can't watch a happy ending,
Guy gets the gal,
Girl gets her pal,
I can't do it with out crying.

Maybe I'm like you,
maybe you cry too.
I'll tell...

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Categories: contract, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Sandalwood Dreams
Turned and tossed like toys
Riding the mighty waves
Their master does what he wilt
To them his humble slaves

Rudely he flings their boats asunder
But calm can be...

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Categories: contract, boat, fishing, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Devil Is In This Tale
Her insecurity would not let her see,
I wanted her!
I thought she knew, my heart was opened.
I should've asked.

She walked on a thread, fourteen stories high
to...

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Categories: contract, heart, heaven, i love
Form: Free verse



Grief Is Grief Is Not
Grief is not something we “get through”…
you “get through” a bad day
Grief is not something we “get over”,
“you ”get over” a cold”
Grief is not something...

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Categories: contract, death, grief, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Through You I Smile
I’d tell you my story, but where I’m from
it’s just a statistic
Life and death- same difference- it’s just ballistics.

So much suffering – I no longer...

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Categories: contract, happy, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tell Me of Love
Think long and hard and tell me-what is love?
I’m thinking of the normal answers, and they appall me!
Tell me love is chocolate, flowers, and sex;make...

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Categories: contract, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore” 

Where do we go -

when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted, 
along the unopened road?

we walk into the...

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Categories: contract, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
When Caught In the Wreck of Her Gaze
II

And did his rash actions give this prince
Cause, in moments of troubling quietude,            ...

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Categories: contract, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monday Monokus - Oct 2020
These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contract, death, humorous,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Double Secret
"The Double Secret"




I am skin and bone
wrapped tightly around
an immaculate heart that’s hidden
but known to a fierce soul

Human daughter, sprinkled with holy water

Wherever there is...

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Categories: contract, family, freedom, home, i
Form: Free verse
Thuglife
THUG LIFE
				cold heart and mind,
drugs are lunch and supper,
prostitutes are friend and wives,
smoking is the daily work,
wanna be Hitler is the dream, 
clotting blood is...

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Categories: contract, abuse, addiction, africa, child
Form: Free verse
The Art of Persuasion.
She and the handsome gentleman finalized the contract, and he gently placed 
the antique pearl necklace into the palm of her tiny hand.  As...

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Categories: contract, confusion, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
The New Wizards
NEW WIZARDS

In legend, gods and wizards roamed the earth
A theatre drawn by magic spell creation
No one dominant in what was real - a dearth
Of fixed...

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Categories: contract, political,
Form: Rhyme

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