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Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emerson, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member High Bred Reality
Soul progress
     back field in motion
The guff
     Chose, chose, live grow leave!  GO!

Leapt from heaven's gold
Jump...

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Categories: emerson, childhood, faith, family, father,
Form: Verse
Memories of Youth and Nature, Were a True Blast, In Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Memories Of Youth And Nature, Were A True Blast
In collaboration with Robert Lindley

Beautiful dawn a Nature walk would do one good
Across the flower filled pond,...

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Categories: emerson, creation, dedication, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Fading
"Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less"...

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Categories: emerson, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Air
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Cherish the moments, rising on fabric of fuchsia skies,
Painting motifs of amber dawn,...

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Categories: emerson, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hidden Beauty
A garden presents a most beautiful sight
When seen from afar in a much broader light,
For there in a setting with all that surrounds,
Its total of...

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Categories: emerson, beauty, garden, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 0' Soul, Can Poetic Art Heal Such Broken Heart, Renewed Tribute Series, Emily Dickinson
0' Soul, Can Poetic Art Heal Such Broken Heart

Her pen bled deep, and this her fans may yet agree
She felt a torrid hell, darkest of...

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Categories: emerson, appreciation, art, character, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member School
SCHOOL

after all these years
i’m peering through the wrought iron fence
eyes grown big
old emerson school
so small

Dave Austin...

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Categories: emerson, school,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Spinning Top - Winged Vehicle
Hear ye, hear ye: Listen to my timeless presentation
If you'd like to conquer anger, irritation, or vexation.

My name is Emerson, Ralph Waldo if you please,
I...

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Categories: emerson, anger, flying, magic, moving
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Day of the Quote Wars
IN HONOR OF THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALL
My Friend John 

The Day (of the Quote Wars)

The Day was gray with wisps of smoke, like...

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Categories: emerson, allegory, funny, imagery, words,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Grandmasters of Poetica - Revised
The Grandmasters of Poetica
Make the mass of us look small;
While I can’t speak for thee and they
I gladly take the fall.
From goodness grace, 
That unfathomable...

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Categories: emerson, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Girl Immortal
 
"I have immortal longings in me. "

                 ...

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Categories: emerson, imagery, life, time,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Universe of Poetry


Limitless! Is where you can go in the universe of poetry.
Set your goals as high as that glorious moon.

For the steps to what we call,...

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Categories: emerson, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Aged and Allergic
Soup Friends...

I thought I would share what my daughter send me this morning. She has poetry on here but doesn't come on much anymore. 

Sara



Ralph...

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Categories: emerson, age, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Air -
            ~ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ~
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Categories: emerson, change, death, nature, pollution,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things