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Premium Member Effects of Words
Written: October 05, 2023 
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Words are just darts thrown toward meaning.
In a linguistic dance, they find their gleaming
With every utterance, their aim takes flight.
Seeking understanding, conquering...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: effects, analogy, appreciation, character, community,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Live For the Day - POTW - A Visual Video Poem
POTW 12th May 2019

Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...

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Categories: effects, hope, inspiration, motivation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: effects, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Wellness and Worry
Wellness and worry are by no means friends.
To be well, your mind of worry you must cleanse.
Living with worry, there’s a price to pay
worry will...

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Categories: effects, analogy, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Rhyme
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: effects, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Would You
Scrolling and scrolling 
the scripts slipping in 
seduction of the scene 
seen or unseen 

deflection 
not to mention reflection 
mirrors don't always appear 
to be...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: effects, love, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Love Drug
 "I've tasted love heroin and will never have that high again"..
    (paraphrased quote one from "Notting Hill")

Love heroin is very potent...

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Categories: effects, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Yesterdays
She swept the side effects of yesterday
Into an unknown place where
Longing transcends the ache
Of remembered years that cling
To wounds that never heal.

The haunting specter of...

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Categories: effects, angst,
Form: Free verse
What If
What If

  You live in a Matrix that you don't know, what is really happening around you.
That there are people that wish to control...

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Categories: effects, allusion, america, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ingredients of Life
Sweetness and sourness of life
depends on the seasoning of emotions.
We are blessed with the gift of birth,
but our thoughts are processed
using different ingredients.

We all explore...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: effects, analogy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Lonely World
How populated this lonely world often feels
with so much warm flesh living cold and stony.
Some days, we ache for someone to hold us,
smile into our...

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Categories: effects, friendship, hurt, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Two
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Two)

Song over, Poe told demon band to leave
And then pointed to the now empty stage
Wretched souls, look as...

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Categories: effects, conflict, courage, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tiger In a Cage
Tiger in a Cage (a stab at men)

Like a caged tiger.
You do not know what is in my den?
There is no worse feeling than the...

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Categories: effects, abuse, animal, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Each Precious Moment
Every moment of life has meaning divine
Craft them with love, cherish your time
Remember the past but don't dwell within
for it is here, it is now...

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Categories: effects, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tell Them Now
If you appreciate others, tell them now,
While it still can add to their sense of self-worth.
To wait is a mistake many make because
No one knows...

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Categories: effects, appreciation, death, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

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