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Premium Member By Default
As we rode through a fog, my father and I,
the car we were in, seemed to know its way home
Hands on the wheel, without eyes...

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Categories: default, childhood, dad, death, family,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Kindness - POTD
POTD 2 July 2018

Humans are capable of ‘Changing their State’. At times, a stressful, negative fusillade can be encountered from an individual wishing to subvert...

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Categories: default, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
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: default, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Gutters and Stars
The fall to the abyss is incendiary by design,
  Burning out and plummeting toward
The bottom of a fjord or the shaft of a mine,
...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: default, faith, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Evolution of a Broken Heart
“The Evolution of a Broken Heart”



In thy hands, 
I gently placed it

lacking hesitation’s pleas and virtues
‘twas ne’er a time to be uncourageous
plucked somewhere from deep...

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Categories: default, abuse, betrayal, destiny, fate,
Form: Free verse



Tofino Moments
Tofino Moments
 
We walked for hours on the windswept beaches of Tofino
new beginnings…our dreams and toes mingling with sand centuries old
a magical sensation of fingertips...

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Categories: default, lovelife,
Form: Free verse
The Optimistic Pessimists Resolutions
Get in shape, lose some weight.
Every year it’s always the same.
Read a book, stay home and cook,
And I only have myself to blame.

Till some land,...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: default, funny, holiday, me, me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ecotherapist Conventions
Truth is a feather 
pushed off to the other side.

Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.

OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and...

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Categories: default, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Be As Before
When rejection eludes understanding,
anxiety places love on trial.
And you start pretending there's still a chance,
extrapolating hope from denial.

A heart haunted by unrequited love,
oft loses its...

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Categories: default, angst, break up, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
The View From Where I Stand
I’ve an anger which cannot be hidden!
A burning passion that comes unbidden!
My Soul desolated with grievous rage,
reacts with furious justified outrage!

Occasioned by the offences of...

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Categories: default, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Door
Noah’s ark was real not a fiction
It had a door to escape God’s affliction
Noah delivered a warning message
But the folks mock their own presage

Men grew...

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Categories: default, character, christian, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
An Omen of Birds
Five thousand pairs of black wings halt
And fell from the cold Arkansas sky
In one district alone the default
In Beebe did the feathered creatures die
And while...

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Categories: default, mystery, visionary, war
Form: Verse
Birds At Sea
Adrift upon the ocean  
bob a bunch of resting birds.
What is it that they call themselves?
A flock or school or herd?

Could it be this...

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Categories: default, bird, children, nature,
Form: Quatrain
The Legend of Robotoria
Upon this world in centuries long past, 
  Dwelt in woodland glades and pastures fresh, 
The spirit of Utopia was cast 
  By...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: default, science fiction, world, dark,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Sprinkle of Muse
Before I begin I must sprinkle some muse
 The main ingredient for the words I'll choose
       I'll add in...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: default, food, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things