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Don'T Bother Me
Don't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!

Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...

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Categories: dull, community, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: dull, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colours of Poetry
Art is abstract
Art thrives with colours
Colours brighten faded coral
Colours highlight black
Black skies with silver stars
Black opal gemstones
Gemstones like amethyst
Gemstones of vivid ruby
Ruby roses and crimson...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dull, poetry,
Form: Blitz
Life Is a Dance
Sometimes life is such a bore we run on automatic;
Then it’s time to tango for a dash of the dramatic.
Or when things are dull and...

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Categories: dull, life, life, life, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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Categories: dull, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Wordless Sky
If I don't write, I'm doomed to die
and lie beneath a wordless sky
A silent corpse, unseen, unheard
alive yet dead-  is that absurd?

If rhymes don't...

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Categories: dull, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Love
The blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.

" A love so true as...

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Categories: dull, garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Silver Haze
*                     ~Dark Silver Haze~ ...

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Categories: dull, beauty, dark, depression, hope,
Form: Free verse
What More Can We Do
Haunted by the death of dreams 
and slaughtering of innocence 
but too afraid to dig up the bones 
and examine our own mistakes, 
we bury...

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Categories: dull, anger, children, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Listless As a Lazy River
I’m listless as a lazy river
barely lapping at the shore.
I wanted once to find the ocean,
but I don’t care any more.

Would I even make a...

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Categories: dull, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Other Side of Winter
(A Villanelle)

The winter’s dismal path is long and gray,
a never-ending march of cheerless dark
with skies whose colors bleach in dull array

where forest scene gives one...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dull, beauty, snow, winter,
Form: Villanelle
The Ghost of My Lonely
Abandoned in the fifties after the war
A freight elevator stuck between floors
Obsolete machinery, splintered old chairs
In a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey somewhere

Dead air presses...

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Categories: dull, dream, me, mystery,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Two Pairs of Shoes
Two pairs of shoes beside the bed.
Mine are tiny, his large instead.

His are steel toed, sandals are mine.
His dull and dark, but mine have shine.

Opposites...

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Categories: dull, love, sleep,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member October Rain
Is it
simply a case of precipitation,
moist warm air condensation
or are they God’s tears showering us with love,
as rain washes away our sorrows,
in the hope of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dull, autumn, october, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: dull, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs