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Premium Member Reflection
**REFLECTION**

Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: current, abuse, death, for her,
Form: Epic



Uncharted Waters
An ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,  
yet I am...

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Categories: current, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways
1.
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: current, love,
Form: List
Premium Member Kaleidoscope Eyes
Round and round I go 
Unfolding my spirit of envy and gold
The nascence of a new stone
Hazel room, vibrant lilac sky, 
Deep orange haze in...

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Categories: current, beauty, color, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eclipse
~ECLIPSE~

The shining light hides behind my eyes,
Comes in a super nova surprise
My spirit glides into the skies,
Spreading the perfect heat like the sunrise

I was like...

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Categories: current, beautiful, beauty, best friend,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: current, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strawberry
STRAWBERRY

Can you feel the warmness of the sun, 
reflecting off the red tones of my hair.
The sun touching the edge of my toes!
My seasons true...

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Categories: current, adventureme, me, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: current, community, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Come walk with me,
for the path cares not,
the age of your feet.

Look at the butterflies on petals,
their silence does not care,
the language you speak.

Listen to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: current, discrimination, humanity, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stepping Into Heaven
Under your heavenly gaze magic appears perfect 
a thousand whispers sail through the oceans current 
each wave warmly echoes of a sun filled promise 
Our...

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Categories: current, angel, baptism, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Courageous Poet

      
      Oh, I admire so, any poet who is willing to be real.
 ...

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Categories: current, courage, inspiration, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jesus Was Turkish
A strange claim
Of a man of passion
Of kindness
He said
Let the children come to me
For what man would refuse the smile
The innocence of a child
He parted...

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Categories: current, age, animal, bible, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
More Foolish Footles For Super Soupy Soupers -
Andrea D?...No brainer:
Dandy
Andie

Or in her younger, wilder days she may have been:
Randy
Andie?
(Just kidding! Just kid...Ouch!)

I have no choice but to categorize several poems by my...

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Categories: current, funny, me,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Life On the River
A balance in life can solve the riddle. 
To find the balance, start in the middle.
Distractions from the banks may lead us wrong.
Go with the...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: current, emotions, life, pain, river,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Old Stream and Seasons Past
The old stream doesn’t burble 
like it used to in Spring’s past -
rambunctious in youth  wild it ran
racing the sun and chasing the moon
splashing...

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Categories: current, age, appreciation, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse

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