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Maggie
She isn't beautiful as Nefertiti was.

And unlike Helen, 

her face will never launch a thousand ships.

My Maggie's beauty is more open, than entrancing

more welcoming, than...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: durable, beauty, love, me, smile,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fairer, Indeed
WOMEN ...

Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of...

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Categories: durable, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burning Daylight Day Lily
Hurry, hurry we are burning daylight,
      The flowers are wilting;
Mother was planting a cottage garden,
And we needed the right perennials;
Flowers...

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Categories: durable, flower, garden,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The In-Between
"The In-Between"

I ripped the pages of 
that tired old story 
from the heart, a body of work

buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back...

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Categories: durable, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Look At Me
~Look At Me~
Look at me,I will wait until you can overcome your shyness,
I will wait until you become positive.
Look at me,I will wait until you...

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Categories: durable, emotions, happy, i love
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Your Special Heart
One ventricle inside your heart have you
while everybody else I know has two!
It causes you to suffer; this I know.
Yet here you are surviving. In...

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Categories: durable, friend, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smarty Pants Poem Number Two
Thought it would be fun to write a cute little Smarty Pants poem.
I was crazy with excitement about it, laughing with happiness gore.
I was so...

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Categories: durable, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Building On Trust
Oh, Trust,

You are the blessed cornerstone of every
Relationship.

You are the durable rock of
Dependence.

You are the unshakable groundwork
Of reliance.

For that reason

Only upon your unyielding foundations we
Should...

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Categories: durable, endurance, relationship, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grass
With the changing seasons,
I’m the deepest green, sometimes dry and brown
I ‘m tall and wave when the wind blows
Or sometimes short when I am freshly...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: durable, green,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Final Arrangements
Fate someday will determine when our days are concluded,
And those who think otherwise are sadly deluded!
Plans were made to ease my crossing with little compunction,
When...

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Categories: durable, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Milton Hankins Esq
Gentleman
               thoughtful honest 
       ...

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Categories: durable, allusion, meaningful, tribute,
Form: Diamante
When We Met
~When We Met.~
Battling everyday is so hard to maintain a healthy 
brain to keep up with our everyday work our 
thoughtful speculations of wanting the...

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Categories: durable, dance, music, passion, sexy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Customs To Getting Old
abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,

Customs To Getting Old  ©


There are very ingrained customs noted when getting old
Getting accustomed to old age is...

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Categories: durable, abuse, age, discrimination, health,
Form: Epic
Today We Are In Love
~Today We Are In Love~


We are in love since 43 years: 
Today we know how to get back to the way we used to be...

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Categories: durable, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 15
We briefly meet the Mandan Chief Big White
in the village center where the animals are sacraficed,
couples wed, and disputes are dealt with,
he is a massive,...

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Categories: durable, adventure,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs