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Premium Member Where the Sycamore Grew
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Categories: em, autumn, family, house, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...

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Categories: em, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tale of Fire and Ice
Part I: Ice

He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...

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Categories: em, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: em, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric
Premium Member It Matters Not
It hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.

I follow on along a...

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Categories: em, dark, lost love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: em, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wintered Soul Among Wisteria
One need not read her horoscope to know
this woman's fate, and though wisteria
cascades sweet blooms of lavender like snow
outside her door, it's still Siberia
pervading the...

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Categories: em, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Glory of Her Magnificence
Oceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.

Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: em, change, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Love For You
Sun flow progressed from east to west,
   with rays of light, the day is blessed.
        ...

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Categories: em, love, nature, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: em, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Never Shame a Woman
Never ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole

Never ever shame a woman
for...

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Categories: em, passion, women,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Rape - trigger warning
October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

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Categories: em, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: em, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Uncharted Waters
An ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,  
yet I am...

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Categories: em, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs