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Blue Words
Blue words cry, 
smearing bare 
               paper walls. 
I am only...

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Categories: discernible, feelings, introspection, words, writing,
Form: Free verse



What's In the Urn
What’s In The Urn

Strangers offered me to join them in a drink
I met them on a mountain edge while skiing
They seemed like friendly normal people...

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Categories: discernible, adventure, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member We Were Fireflies
These are the times you wish
you could pack it all up and be a kid again:
Take me away from the Now
and into the Then

(that's where...

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Categories: discernible, childhood, confusion, deep, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Pilot Light
My Pilot Light

In a hidden crevice
between soul and skin,
there is a flicker, 
a tangerine flame
blazing through black abyss;
illuminating infinite veins of strength 
that light like...

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Categories: discernible, inspirational, introspection
Form: Verse
Premium Member Escape
Running, running, get away,
move aside! I can't stay!

Time is gone and I must go
hurry now,  move too slow.

Heart is racing, pounding loud
press myself against...

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Categories: discernible, dark, psychological,
Form: Couplet



The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the...

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Categories: discernible, bible, death, earth, god,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member seas of love -
ages ...

years flow between us
      as two oceans of the world we spin upon
      ...

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Categories: discernible, age, metaphor, passion, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Geisha Whispers.
Moonlight crying on white linen, fingering
lace curtains, glancing apprehensively
at distorted reflections peeping
through Waterford crystal
framed in silver,
a silence
almost apologetic
creeping through the room,
trying hard not to disturb
the...

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Categories: discernible, mystery, peace, time,
Form: I do not know?
On Dreams, Past Lives, and the Soul
A few weeks ago I had a dream wherein my Chinese wife dyed her black hair blonde; then I woke up and told her I...

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Categories: discernible, allusion, appreciation, life, religion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member On Writing Poetry
If I but had the basic raw nerve and wit
I would show a few folks how to do it:
“Write a line or two with good...

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Categories: discernible, humorous, poetry, writing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Beyond Wonderland - Kuhlmann Sonnet
Spaceward: genesis, obedience, fathomless: universe.
In Cerulean: lambent, sullen, discernible: Close ignite.
With harmony: hypaethral, skyward, aether: womb hiccups 
Whelm time: serenade, stardust, drizzles: diamond dust,
Overall trends:...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discernible, analogy, appreciation, sky, stars,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan

(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discernible, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Universal Credit Union
Stepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?

He invited me to sit down
to...

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Categories: discernible, earth, nature, psychological, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 35
Damn it!
Crouching low on the ridge with Joseph and Rubin we see
that twenty horses or more are grazing with a group of Indians in the...

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Categories: discernible, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Baby Talk
We learn our right from wrongs,
and maybe right from lefts,
as we go along.

Issues come up within developmental windows,
like stealing
emerges from touching your older brother's stuff
and...

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Categories: discernible, baby, birth, children, culture,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs