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Premium Member Touch
"TOUCH"

I want to touch your life
and leave a mark ...
... a deep impression ...
So you will think of me
and of my smile ...
... my sweet...

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Categories: description, love, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: description, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - a Most Beautiful Symphony of Love -
Rhythmic tones form a most beautiful symphony of love 
A shining star as nature's splendor reflects Heaven’s light 
It’s my destiny to learn a passion...

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Categories: description, art, beauty, love, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bliss
Ignorance is definitely a description of bliss
Look at Washington if you don’t believe this
They are never on target, they always miss
Their biggest decision is whose...

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Categories: description, politicalold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Mysteries
Divinity lives beyond description
Alone, a weary heart cries from its pain
Desire eager for its conscription
Might truth and love turn this way again?

Sweet mysteries, this life,...

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Categories: description, love, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member My Heart Skips a Beat My Love
My heart skips a beat my love each and every time 
I’m with you my dearest sweet and lovely Darling
Since the passions and feelings you...

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Categories: description, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: description, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member home again -
I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the...

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Categories: description, heart, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
My Turn To Cry
I’ve distanced myself
I didn’t mean to
Didn’t set out to do it
An unconscious act of the mind 
For self preservation

My visits went to once a week
Sunday...

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Categories: description, confusion, depression, devotion, loss,
Form: Free verse
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: description, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Imagine
Imagine a world
Where silence fills the void,
Sighing so its heard,
A voice raining kindness.

Imagine a life
Where joy is alive inside
The ones who know strife
Will be erased...

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Categories: description, appreciation, blessing, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Art - Anne-Louis Girodet
Description of The Funeral of Atala (Funérailles d'Atala or Atala au tombeau), 1808, Louvre

I sauntered through the Louvre, observing art.
One painting struck me for its...

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Categories: description, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: description, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Mother Earth Etc
In the whisper of a moonlight stream I heard her sigh or so I thought, 
in the rustle of a mottled deer in oak pine...

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Categories: description, art, blessing, child, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Word
In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was...

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Categories: description, humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs