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Premium Member Quantum Directness
Quantum Directness

There is an approach 
to self-recognition
arriving daily to many..
A direct recognition
of what we are
comes from a 
very subtle noticing..
A soft kick
off the line on...

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Categories: directness, adventure, goodbye, innocence, thanksgiving,
Form: Blank verse



It Ain'T Right
I know exactly what you're saying..."It ain't right!"
But how many do you know as sincere? One who will put up a fight!
One as determine...Knowing despite,
Despite...

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Categories: directness, how i feel, i
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Miss Lily Jane, the Iridescent
When Miss Lily Jane Bobbit arrived in that Alabama town,
jaws dropped; all eyes were riveted on her.
The ordinary street on which she lived would be...

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Categories: directness, people, woman, people, people,
Form: Narrative
The Perilous Years
Those years were freshened years but the sea
Was filled with stomach cramps, and with burning tips
	Against the psychosis on essential truthful belly
Vibrating of dying fishes
As...

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Categories: directness, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Subsequent
The irony of dissension
that failing path's ingress
that module with its faction
that moment of duress.

That falling out of practice
that holiness to test
is subsequent by number
a follow...

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Categories: directness, science, technology,
Form: Monorhyme



More Than a Dose of Admiration
the best part of any day for me is watching you undress
your body is like the relief of deep exhalation after a hard day's work
admiring...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directness, appreciation, woman,
Form: Free verse
Done Fighting
Like a mystical wight,
Ain't in a trance,
Nor experiencing delusions and phantasmagoria.
I live. I fight,
Fighting
Because the decision to be free
Is that which I took freely,
Yet, criticized...

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Categories: directness, freedom, success,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Do Poets Like
                


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Categories: directness, poetess, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Somewhere Between Fall and Falsehood
Her chin was resting between her knees
Her fingers were running smoothly through the sand
She didn’t notice my arrival
She just sat, staring out at the ocean

I...

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© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directness, depression, family, sad, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dual Aspect of Life
A Dual Aspect of Life
“Son do you remember your dreams…”
The old man said, 
Soft spoken sullen,
Reminiscence hard on his tongue,
A man whom few have seen...

“Some...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directness, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Death of Defeat
What rare heart you have that puts upon my own 
salvations touch.
At first too much 
to bear. And now here, in this hallowed place, 
at...

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Categories: directness, death, for her, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member No Joke
fluid
   frivolity
    jingles
within,
formative
...immediate:
articulates
   the
     visionary
with
    earthy
     directness:
unclogs
...

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Categories: directness, fun, inspiration,
Form: Verse
I Should Have Meant Enough Or You Should Never Have Taken My Heart
I loved you.

Quite simply put, I loved you.

If you were blind to the weight and need of it,
that simply put, was your willingness 
to ignore...

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Categories: directness, angst, boyfriend, emotions, lost
Form: Free verse
Arms of Love
moments caught in arms of love, beauty poised with directness of purpose,
reaching out to a world in need, searching below the surface,
friendships rise with honor...

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Categories: directness, familyworld,
Form: I do not know?
I Met Clara
Sitting at a table I met a woman of ethical means

Surrounded by trees, warm, green, contrast

Arrives this woman, vibrant, driven, the silence broken a little

Jousting...

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Categories: directness, appreciation, friendship,
Form: Free verse

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