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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: detailed, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Critical Liaisons
A poets dream, she'll seduce with her eyes,
pens will desire to praise her charming guise,
but be cautious, she'll treat you like her book,
explore each chapter...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detailed, devotion, emotions, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: detailed, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Everything
The mind and universe confide. Between
Them, they are one. Like lovers devoted.
They share fluctuations on an ocean
Wave, washing mindful shores, to redeem
Those sparkling pearls, that...

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Categories: detailed, allegory
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)

Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they...

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Categories: detailed, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Venus Courts Mars On Valentine's Day
A single red, heart-shaped balloon isn’t enough
So I splurge and buy fourteen adorned by cupid
I tie them to the chair of my beloved “Hot Stuff”
To...

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Categories: detailed, funny, holidaychocolate,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Heartbroken
FICTIONAL EMOTIVE WRITE

Since I was a tiny baby I was brought up by my grandparents and had a very happy childhood. I knew that they...

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Categories: detailed, death, grave, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Painting Mountains
I like to paint the mountains with the backdrop of sky
Touch them with white snow, detailed to the eye
When one looks, there may be a...

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Categories: detailed, art, freedom, fun, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Unpainted - Collaboration With Chris Green
I painted a desert in shades of my past
Muted in worry and tears
Granules of sand through a cracked hourglass
Falling in spite of the fears

A range...

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Categories: detailed, analogy, art, metaphor, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Suddenly Swans
My fried anxieties and crisped lonely would unite in my sleep's repeat 

nightmares where a roster of random monsters pursued their viewed, vile

end of me....

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Categories: detailed, angst, dream, evil, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ramblings Inside a Door
Somehow in the late of nighttime,
a wooden door's front lantern brings
me to a table where strangers 
from a distant tavern grow more animated 
with a...

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Categories: detailed, people, places, voice,
Form: Lyric
Ocean of Sorrow
Since you left I seem to drift
Sorrow's current, very swift
Pulling me beyond yesterday's
Searing pain of velvet stingrays.

In this vast deceiving ocean
I drown in waves of...

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Categories: detailed, introspection, loss, sadocean,
Form: Rhyme
Phone Rant
The message relayed by the computer generated
  voice said my que  in line  would be
 approximately 20 minutes.
 So I had twenty...

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Categories: detailed, computer, nonsense,
Form: Narrative
Woodpecker
I keep pecking at the tree of life
Only finding the bugs of strife.
No nourishment for my aching heart
No detailed map or starry chart.

Pieces of bark...

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Categories: detailed, introspection, life, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Commentary Exposure of Isis
(So many were protesting about America's secret involvement with ISIS but I didn't believe it until I read this latest news, shocking and disgusting. Poor...

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Categories: detailed, allegory, political, power,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs