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Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: devise, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Mermaid Melody
I was submerged in 
an ocean 
          of rants,
hiding the sparkles 
of my  
poetic 
...

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Categories: devise, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nocturnal Contagion
While it feels in the noontide, just steps through the trees,
As the sky bleeds to twilight – the sweetest disease.
On a walk through the maples,...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devise, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Chameleons
Chameleons

  Chameleons we must be

      In a world forever changing

         ...

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Categories: devise, life, people, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
Percivals Promise!
The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance

Streaming with incresent colours towards life

Infinite within its parhelion possibilities

Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides

Whereupon all things...

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Categories: devise, faith, life, love, time,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Hydrangea Hideaway
Listen to the shifting winds 
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between 
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect 
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
For we are more than
just spectators...

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Categories: devise, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mountebank
A dispenser of dishonest vice, a peddler of blatant lies,
In his unscrupulous realms, nobility of truth sadly dies,
Where righteous vibes of morality and decency agonize;
Where...

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Categories: devise, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaves
Leaves are beauty of the Master’s touch
…beds of leaves for homes of squirrels and such

Bunched by opossum in the hollow of an old oak ...

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Categories: devise, nature, autumn,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Matter of Truth
In  ponderings of wanderings
Of contemplations incomplete
In one’s life are found blunderings
All human concepts have conceit

Bound of the precept of the truth
In ponderings of wanderings
Serpent...

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Categories: devise, allegory, truth,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Lord Harry's Front
Old Lord Harry put up a good front.
He hid socks in his pants as a stunt.         ...

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Categories: devise, funny, gender,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Serenity's Last Serenade
*A small lake named Serenity am I,
well hidden here among the fragrant pines;
reflecting the **cerulean of sky
till Sun behind the distant peak reclines.

***Now humming bugs...

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Categories: devise, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Day In the Life of a Late Summer Day
Sleep.. indigo’s eyes, night loving allies,
Sol’s flare is stars' disguise dawn till dusk’s reprise,
peach awe-inspired skies effuse juice sunrise,
east, grapefruit pink lies - lemon slice...

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Categories: devise, appreciation, day, imagery, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
If Things Were Different
If I weren't a poet, what would I be
An artist, a singer, or a designer?
Would I have been something next to a deity? 
Oh, I...

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Categories: devise, god, life, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Embryonic Time Travelers
Time travel has always fascinated man
Could UFOs be steered by human hands
Consider this premise before you say no
So called “grays” resemble human embryos

Evolution proceeds, gene...

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Categories: devise, science, visionaryautumn, may,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Unshackle My Verse
Dear Poets: A Sonnet Call to Arms

The law we fought so hard against has passed.
They say our poems we cannot write again.
We must rebel. Absurdity...

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Categories: devise, freedom,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things