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I Am But a Grain of Sand
"Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach, 
and I am but a grain of sand."
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Categories: due east, character, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: due east, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Clovers of Us
Like clover petals

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Categories: due east, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Amelia Earhart--Into the Blue
Swallowed up somewhere in the South Pacific
Amelia and her Lockheed Electra vanish one day
On July 2, 1937 her last radio contact received
In that time, poor...

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Categories: due east, historylost, lost,
Form: Quatrain
James Dean
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James Dean an MGM dream 
Sprawls unseen towards the door
Tipping his hat Hello Mama and that 
He shuffles his shoes to the floor

Shakespeare a play...

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© Ian Foley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: due east, dedicationdream, dream,
Form: I do not know?



The People of the Enchanted Forest
The People of the Enchanted Forest 

In times of folklore where many a tall tale told
The town folk spoke of mystic stories so bold
Of a...

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Categories: due east, adventure, journey,
Form: Ballad
I'M Going To Sea In a Blueberry Boat
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I’m going to sea in a blueberry boat,
macaroon waves I will sail
Far past the girls and the buoys I’ll float,
maybe spout off to a whale

My...

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Categories: due east, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Dad I Use To Know
My Dad, a little honest like a Priest

Taught me how to live and feast

With bangles of gold and diamond to your wrist

After a bloated tummy...

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Categories: due east, father, mentor, me,
Form: Rhyme
A Mother Never Sleeps
Nothin like a road trip
In the middle of the night
Josh was hitch hiking
Him and his dad got into a fight

How did I find out...
He's my...

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Categories: due east, caregiving, confusion, love, mother,
Form: Bio
Fine Town of Rotgut
I've dragged this here bag of gold
it seems a thousand miles,
no rain, no water, no food to eat,
just stagnant pools that look like bile
and a...

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Categories: due east, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Knox'D Out
It was early, 
The solemn, silent sunrise wrought its
Rays across the untamed land like a
Shorn-clad Delilah.
Dew glistened the foliage
Like undefiled razer blades nestled
Within a mortar's...

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Categories: due east, absence, anger, best friend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Quiet Sky
for Tabitha

The sun wanders westward 
towards the old frontier, 
dragging its heft across plateaus 
of New Mexico. Along Route 
66, a quick toe-dip in Tahoe...

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Categories: due east, dedication, depression, for her,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song of The Anemones No 4: AABB
"*Oui, the winner, American Beauty,"
yet hail these 'Windflowers' Anemones,
flourished yon 'Down Under', 'Aussiszlanders,
indeed a showstopper for bystanders
of all but Europe, Turks, then South due East.
Breed...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: due east, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Put a Light Out On Hunching Cliff
Somewhere partially due east 

Of Hunching Cliff 

On the Jurassic coast

Where the Old Lighthouse

Used to stand it's ground 

Battered intermittently minutely 

Against the wave's and...

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Categories: due east, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs