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Best Do What It Takes Poems

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Premium Member Indian Ink
INDIAN INK

Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow

A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...

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Categories: do what it takes, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery) 

Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely, 
Sinister...

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Categories: do what it takes, body, death, history, lonely,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: do what it takes, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: do what it takes, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touch Me
"In Touch With Myself"

I can't seem to find her
The reminder of yesterday
I shut my eyes for a few seconds
Only there, can I reach to bear...

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Categories: do what it takes, absence, confusion, imagination, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Girl Named Sue - POTW
POTW 1 Oct 2018

Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes 
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...

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Categories: do what it takes, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: do what it takes, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: do what it takes, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: do what it takes, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snow Globe
Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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Categories: do what it takes, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Summer Lace
The shadows fall like summer lace
       Through palm trees fluttered in the sun
The soft caress of dawning breeze
 ...

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Categories: do what it takes, beauty, day, love, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: do what it takes, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: do what it takes, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: do what it takes, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause...

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Categories: do what it takes, age, body, humorous, men,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs