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Premium Member You'Re the Poem
If only this poetry could define,
how your presence takes me towards cloud nine.
Your touch brings sensations that feel divine,
yet, my tongue is quiet, fighting this...

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Categories: describing, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: describing, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Chimney Swift
My precious chimney swift
Envy alone
Has named you so mundane
Tethered to the slightest pause
Amid your life upon the wing
Describing you as drab
Cigar shaped
And flying like a...

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Categories: describing, appreciation, bird, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Lies and Deception
Silent Lies and Deception


In the silence of murky waters
There slithers oily snakes of the night
Wearing masks of deception
Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue

The KGB...

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Categories: describing, corruption, evil, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paper Plane
Since you left, I've been unable to dream,
thrashing about in tangled sheets all night.
I fold paper planes, odd as that may seem,
preparing the night's fledgling...

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Categories: describing, angst, anxiety, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Sonnet



I'Ll Cry Tomorrow
Sitting dying alone,
In this dark and dingy place 
It has now become my home..
The only open bar 
In town, I needed something to heal my...

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Categories: describing, addiction, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mr James
His wise council and kind patience bolstered my resolve
to overcome my youthful woes and nightmarish troubles solve.
His humanity may have saved my life. His memory...

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Categories: describing, education, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Prose
Graceful Movement of Silence

The leaf of my love fell
in quiet autumn silence
Slowly descending 
from the swaying limb
of unanticipated romantic tremors
Caught off balance was
my sense of equlibrium
Shaken by the...

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Categories: describing, love, metaphor, nature, romantic,
Form: Free verse
The Long and Short of It
The long and short of it 

I find the poetry I read
while running through this site
Takes my breath away from me
and makes me want to...

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Categories: describing, friendship, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Kingdom


" Pardon me, 
if my soul has been p a i n t e d , 
with a lavender lake of solemnity, 
but, I'll ...

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Categories: describing, deep, emotions, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the fall of Saint Tropez
Saint Tropez is a summer town.
Smaller than it ought to be, really.
Like when you realize the French quarter,
in New Orleans, is just three blocks wide...

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Categories: describing, autumn, beauty, lost, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Heady Scent
After three months, the Texas drought finally ended. Blessed rain clouds came. Dark clouds rumbled through our neighborhood. Thunder boomed and lightning crackled. Then fat...

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Categories: describing, rain, storm,
Form: Haibun
Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas
*****To the naked EYE, this poem may seem like gibberish,
but I assure you it is loaded with 24 palindromes,
3 palindrome phrases, 1 hidden palindrome phrase,
and...

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Categories: describing, humorous, nonsense, onomatopoeia, parody,
Form: I do not know?
Something Special
So many years ago
when life was young
bringing together a love
that could never be undone
is really something special.

To find someone, you'd never leave
to keep forever by...

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Categories: describing, devotion, faith, friendship, happiness,
Form: Epithalamium
Premium Member Sarcastic
I was told I was sarcastic
But I’m not made from plastic
So I’ll say it clear and loud
Of the sarcasm I am proud
I wouldn’t be so...

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Categories: describing, work
Form: Couplet

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