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Premium Member Folly of Autumn's Fog
               A coloratura rises 
      ...

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Categories: elaborate, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form: Free verse



Soulful Eyes
Behind the elaborate mask I wear
Beyond the depths of blue soulful eyes
Beneath the painted lips and coiffured hair
my tears flow into an estuary of sorrowful...

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Categories: elaborate, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
House of the Tragic Poet
Two thousand years, a tragedy is past
Yet it's history still leaves us aghast.

On a night, dreadfully dark
A  volcano erupted, leaving it's historical mark

Mount Vesuvius...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elaborate, city, house,
Form: Couplet
The Last Slice
Who ate the last slice?
I don't hear no confession
Who scarfed the last slice down?
Everyone seems to have a finger pointing obsession
Don't know why we have...

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Categories: elaborate, food, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Happy New World

Happy New World

A new day glows as the year comes to close
Opting for true love that rejects old throes,
Wishing happiness for all ringing heavenly bells,
Offering...

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Categories: elaborate, friendship, humanity, new year,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member She Is Nature
She is Goddess of Day
Her first duty is to Dawn
She paints a pale peach skyway
Spills dew on the waiting lawn

Nature is her - she holds...

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Categories: elaborate, autumn, beauty,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Unmasking the Script
In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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Categories: elaborate, journey, life, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Beauty
Beauty

Beauty is all around me, in a million different things.
The silvery haired, wrinkled face of one that has impenetrable memories
She smiles and longs for someone,...

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© Grace Daub  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elaborate, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Ghost's Testimony Co-Written With Jack Horne
*NOTE:  Jack and I wonder how many of you have heard of the Zona Shue case – 
an American murder victim who had revenge...

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Categories: elaborate, mysterymother, murder,
Form: Rhyme
My Mother Thinks I'M a Doctor
My mother thinks I'm a doctor
I just don't have the guts
To tell her I spent all my college doe
On beer, wine, women and such

So after...

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Categories: elaborate, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Literacy
What is the state of the language?
How should we use the words?
How much can we elaborate
Before we're dismissed as nerds?...

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Categories: elaborate, education,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member To God Be the Glory - Great Things He Has Done
To God be the glory - great things he has done.



‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also...

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Categories: elaborate, god,
Form: Narrative
Doom Bleeds and Fades
freedom lies with a shattered grace
stumbling toward atomic mythology
where answers have their sins washed
brilliantly bright as suns dyeing skin off-
colors of rumors circulating planets
of the...

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© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elaborate, dark, imagination, universe, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Art-Frida Kahlo
On The Suicide Of Dorothy Hale

Known for her self portraits and her politics
Her famous unibrow and her elaborate dress
And for twice marrying Mexico's most renown...

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Categories: elaborate, appreciation, art, suicide, ,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal
a single drop
escapes and shapes
the one reforms into the many
forces merge and maintain the center
as an ocean to a clear running stream
effortless delicate movements
the beautiful...

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Categories: elaborate, appreciation, beauty, creation, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things