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Premium Member A Hollow Heart
A hollow heart devoid of love 
is like a night no stars above,
or like an old abandoned well
whose empty echoes speak of hell.
A lonely heart...

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Categories: douses, loneliness, lost love, sad,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Just Before Dark
A dying sun slips off the edge of the earth
its light banished until Dawn's rebirth.
Night punctuates a dog's bark
with tune of a lark
just before
dark.
At its...

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Categories: douses, dark, imagery, imagination, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seduced By Poseidon's Daughter
As rippling horizon
douses fiery orb,
you are at your
most alluring.

Ethereal,
diaphanous limbs
stretch out,
reach for me,
beckon to me.
Barely audible murmurs,
laced with
forbidden promises,
cross the distance
between us.

Whispers become
more insistent,
more urgent,
more...

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Categories: douses, heartbreak, lust, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Bite the Bullet -Edited Version-
I dreamt of embracing the abyss
Wake me up to an open door
Illuminate me with positivity
I slept in grief for so long for doing wrong
Exterminate my...

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Categories: douses, angst, deep, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Ribbon of Gold
A ribbon of gold floats
on placid waves of blue.
And with a searing kiss,
Sol bids the sea adieu.

Slipping between ripples,
slippery shadows slide.
And Luna starts tugging
upon the...

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Categories: douses, beautiful, color, day, imagery,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Barcelona Flamenco
BARCELONA FLAMENCO

clicking of heels, like torrential downpour. guitar
plucking at the eardrums, chest wall erupting.

like a hurricane of crisp crimson leaves of Autumn ~
a raked pile,...

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Categories: douses, art, dance, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grief Out In the Open
The owls, hoo knows why, they do give a hoot.
Do humans give a hoot, or holler more?
The moons of hollowness...the wait for loot.
The holy prayer-knees...the...

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Categories: douses, bird, god, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mermaid
Silver flashes through ocean swells
sound ripples across the water
strolling the moonlight kissed water
surrender to nights sensual promise
foam breaks, mermaid soars resplendent
cobalt teal diamond skin shimmers
powerful...

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Categories: douses, ocean,
Form: Free verse
The Dancer and the Poet
THE DANCER AND THE POET (Satis Shroff)

There she is a blonde Flamenco dancer,
From a family that was long dysfunctional.	
The poet said: ‘Dance, my dear to...

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Categories: douses, heartbroken, relationship,
Form: Blank verse
Dr Jekyll Ms Hyde
pile on the make up, no let's tone it down 
let's stay here at home, come on paint the town 

let's try to be good,...

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Categories: douses, visionary, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
A Reverie Forged By Avina Netu
My fantasy was spawned from her
Her eyes have drawn me to the Vermillion light
Witnessing the gaze of a glistened perfection
Midst the whirl of Gemini
Bedazzled whirl...

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Categories: douses, desire, lust, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coup De Grace
A white-hot fire
      That once raged furiously
    Becomes a moribund flame
      ...

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Categories: douses, allegory, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Infernal Heat
Infernal heat

To suffer yes infernal heat,
To burn the fork out of your trouser seat,
submerged in loves tales of deceit,
when tender-loin arouses,
to burn with fires taste...

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Categories: douses, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dystrophy of Madness
Spring trips will be all lively in untamed life. 
Times whims will erode a flourishing nightlife. 
Fallen leaves capitulate to the assaults of time. 
Superb...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: douses, analogy, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Lady Liberty Sheds a Tear
The Lady has a tear in her eye
   It douses the flame of her torch
Whose sparks perish on her lifeless gown
  ...

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Categories: douses, america, cry, freedom, immigration,
Form: Rhyme

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