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All Hallow's Moon
Oh souls that brave All Hallow's moon
whose shadowed face would bid us swoon.
We stare upon your ghostly veil
a-flight on twilight's empty trail.

And yet, we delve...

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Categories: daunts, dark, evil, fear,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Make Every Moment Count
Make every moment count...
this is the promise I make to myself,
to deny the certainty of death:
an assumption stripped of all reality;
and it daunts others, not...

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Categories: daunts, inspirational, life, love, people,
Form: Ballad
Confused
I am more than a menace to society
There’s a twist in my sobriety
Please help me sculpt my destiny
Help me return to incorruptibility

Why do I believe...

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© John Pen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunts, identity, life, mystery, nature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Sweet Little Lie
I struggle to tell her this truth,
I consult with her pleasing smile.
Woe is a world where flaws exist,
As stains breed until flavors amend.
She hears me...

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© Jesse Day  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunts, confusion, funny, hope, muse,
Form: Free verse
That Rule Was Begging To Be Broken
That rule was begging to be broken
Y’know the one about women?
Of conformity for cat calls and 
Gift wrapped shoulders and legs?
How about “no” to breastfeeding...

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Categories: daunts, beauty, body, community, confidence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Afraid of a Mirror
Afraid of a mirror
that daunts you with horror?
What's your fear
of not looking 
and admitting
you have a funny ear?


Fretted to look into a mirror
that won't suggest
the...

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Categories: daunts, beauty, blue, fear, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Happy October
October trees, they sway in the wind
A tangerine tango that taunts the tinges

October leaves, they swirl in the breeze
A vermilion whirligig that vaunts the whispers

October...

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Categories: daunts, autumn, october,
Form: Free verse
Twilight
"Twillight"*

A 'Swan' in town
can be found on
school ground --that's me

bored and off qi
rain daunts me --'till
I see him there...

can't help but stare
his eyes glare --so
aware...I...

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Categories: daunts, fantasy, teen,
Form: Than-Bauk
Dreams Sublime
There are stairs that I climbed
Obscure and vague
Stars shown in the darkness
Not a cloud in the sky
And I climbed toward the blue cloud
Angels peeped and...

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Categories: daunts, dark, deep, dream, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Larry's Cove
Grass growth in the cove
			 where Larry's boat sat 
			 years after Larry’s ash
			 whirled with rocks in space
			 daunts the pickerel:
			 silently galloping glut
			...

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© Bill Keen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunts, environment, water,
Form: Lyric
Goodnight
Nights spent, drenched in fear
Knives available, pills in abundance
Weight of the world, shoulders bear too much
Journey's end is close, any further, too far
Will buckles again,...

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Categories: daunts, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Fate's Way
Fate's hand write the play
Every soul ought to play by its way;
It taunts the strong till they battle and yield
and daunts the weak to beg...

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© Linga Siva  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunts, destiny, , fate,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Alliteration
Alliteration
By Franklin Price
6/26/2105

Alliteration  alludes alliance 
Defeats deductive daunts defiance
Connects constructive conjugation
Needs a niche nice new libation
 
Poets possibly pen prime prose
Never neglect nor need...

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Categories: daunts, fun,
Form: Rhyme
From Cradle To Grave
A fetus being nurtured
within a mother's womb.
Ready to experience life
and indulge in all of life's
pleasurable moments.
Eager to endure everything
that was once endured vicariously.
Now from the...

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Categories: daunts, age, birth, death, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Free Verse: Translation of Paul Verlaine's Vers Libres
Free Verse : Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Vers Libres

(Yet another possible translation of Paul Verlaine’s « Vers Libres » by T. Wignesan, though I prefer...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs