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Premium Member Loves Window
Love feels like it has gone far away
She used to exist everywhere it seems
Now she hides in fear of being used up or let down

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Categories: elude, life, love, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Accepting Life V
I turned,
towards my friend, who always was complaining
about the injustices and hardships of life and in 
a calm voice I asked him:
 
" Tell me,...

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Categories: elude, happiness, life, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poems As Butterflies
There
is a 
beauty in 
lucidity
when images are
wondrously concrete. . . a
butterfly’s opalescent
wings unfolded on a shiny 
leaf - not flitting about . . . ...

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Categories: elude, on writing and words
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Paradise Lost
When sultry ripples take a hold
Replacing naive dreams
And fantasy becomes so bold
Seductive in its schemes

It moves into her mundane life
And tempts her with such skill
That...

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Categories: elude, desire, feelings, lust, paradise,
Form: Verse
Gutter Pavement Runway Flight
They elude me now ...words
Drinking befits a drowning man possessed
Swimming off this broken page
Baton winning in a relay race
I breached the ribbon sliced with chest
Joy!...

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Categories: elude, addiction, appreciation, day, drug,
Form: Free verse



Yesterdays and Tomorrows
I ask you now is this my plight
I cry out to you all through the night
My tears run dry, my heart still stings
My soul seeks...

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Categories: elude, introspection
Form: Free verse
A Drop of Relief
Tear 
ooze
in drops
carries scads 
gliding down contours 
at the edge it drips with a plop 
ease the mind of the woes, a sigh elude unawares

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Categories: elude, break up, cry, depression,
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member Nana Africa
Mama held me close to her bosom
wouldn't let me go astray
she shook the cradle of civilization
and to her wayward offspring 
she paid attention.
 
She added...

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Categories: elude, beautiful, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Love Defiled By Hate
She was a Capulet and he a Montague
Yet the moment their eyes locked, such great passion grew
Scaled her balcony, professions of love to croon
Juliet warned,...

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Categories: elude, lost love, sadlove,
Form: Sonnet
Love
Cessation the love
Household has been scattered
When love lost

Humming in the community
Malicious gossip in the society
Disorder in the society
Degrading the society
Society has been scattered
When love lost

Humming...

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Categories: elude, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Epic
Come Out, Come Out- Wherever You Are
With Peace of Mind just in my grasp,
I fall from Cliffs of Catastrophe
Before I wake, subconscious lapse-
Snapping me back to "Reality"
From which I run, I...

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Categories: elude, lost, pain, peace, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Saturday Reflection
I hear the chirruping of birds.
It emerges from vast hidden spaces
from wherever the birds may be.
Their twittering sounds are scattered,
interspersed with cricket sounds
and the intermittent...

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Categories: elude,
Form: Lyric
Please Hold
“Thank you for calling….”
Is what’s trained to be said
But when they get irate and lewd
I feel like hanging up instead.

This person’s always right, that person’s...

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Categories: elude, funny, jobs, work,
Form: Sonnet
No Place Like Home
hindered thoughts of childhood
often elude my mind
memories come in fragments now
escaping through corners of eyes

sometimes i see you in dreams
waiting for you to reach out
emotionless...

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Categories: elude, absence, dad, home, mom,
Form: Acrostic
If I Had the Words
If I had the words to speak of a new beginning,
I would crawl inside that inspiration and cry the tears that elude me,
I sometimes wonder...

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Categories: elude, sadhope, may,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs