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Free Cee This Is Your Last Chance For This Day To Be Edified By Elocution Superb
WHEREVER IS WHENEVER 

Whenever living begins to chase me
or whenever it attempts to erase me
whenever life seems like a tumultuous insurrection
I always run in the...

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Categories: edified, romance, sun,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: edified, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of...

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Categories: edified, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Ringing Sea
 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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Categories: edified, appreciation, beach, blue, character,
Form: Personification
Premium Member For the Love of Lexicon
My Mother taught me
how to see through language, 
paper was rare, iron ink wasn't free
so she sold some jewelry for porcelain lettering, 
and we clapped...

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Categories: edified, dedication, history, passion,
Form: Epic



Cain's Son
A.W. Nutter

Trespassing through my domain
Your excursion has become a habit
Sampling your fruit I must abstain
My lustful cravings I try to inhibit

Gliding across the forest floor
Your...

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Categories: edified, religion
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Delphic
Quote: The forest is my loyal friend. A Delphic shrine to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The forest is my sanctuary, a sphere of peace, a realm of...

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Categories: edified, deep, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Silent One
So
Idyl  
Luminous
Eager nice soul
Neat nice smooth poet
Tactful friendly person
One so beautiful poet
Navigator master in seas
Edified reader so grand writer 

Please note: big waterfall shape...

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Categories: edified, poets, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Woman of God
braising thoughts arose as my lifeless 
body huddled in a fetal position i' d completed 
thirty hail mary's an yet my macerated flesh 
lay still...

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Categories: edified, angel, beach,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Derbyshire Flag- For Contest
The Derbyshire flag has a cross of green
with a background of pale blue
green for the verdant leas and peaks
blue Derwent running through.
At the crux of...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edified, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl With Me Under the Umbrella
It was the month of June, 
When the whether had changed its tune,
The rain was lashing down,
It's wrath had drenched the town.

All the human beings...

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Categories: edified, adventure, angel, beautiful, love,
Form: Rhyme
May Nine Nineteen Eighty
May nine nineteen eighty was great, 
Being the day of his calling; 
Brother Eduardo Manalo
Had received the noblest blessing.

The day of his ordination
Signaled his rise...

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Categories: edified, anniversary,
Form: Quatrain
Mild Hysteria From Dystopia
Without further ado
i offer my literary missives anew
fur ye to ponder and brew
from meister mwm of his motley crue,
whom dwells in a nada very complex...

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Categories: edified, analogy, creation, deep, farewell,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Free Cee Is That a Trivial Trifle Or a Rifle
IS THAT A TRIVIAL TRIFLE OR A RIFLE?

Weightless
Weightless while watching ripples row their way across a wading pool 
A pool that portended peace
A peaceful pool...

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Categories: edified, angst,
Form: Quatrain
A Friendly Exoneration
Twinkly bunch with loaded school bags
Ambition injustice and itching their backs,
Cunning those faces in front of the gate
Heedful pupils well-chosen apparently late.  
A fistful...

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Categories: edified, friendshiptime, together,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs