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Makita Xiii: Square Epigraph
In a yonder canyon
Upon earth’s finest grass I sit
Scathing mature flower petals
As if to sojourn the years
When youth nestled us
Grazing our faces with happiness...

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Categories: epigraph, life,
Form: Verse



Haight Ashbury
The love of Ganesha....

Born upon the branches of the Monterey cypress', ucalyptusly turning leaves

Joyfully displayed reflections this retros, predominant vanguards of the times

Preceptencies vibrantly rainbowic...

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Categories: epigraph, hope, life, love, social,
Form: I do not know?
A Publishing Date
Let me drape upon you a written robe, 
beautifully indexed on your tablet. 
My! you look divine, 
off we go to dine on literary flavours...

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Categories: epigraph, desire, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haikus With Commentaries By Etiemble Translated By T Wignesan
Haikus by René Etiemble, with commentaries,  Translated by T. Wignesan 

(Taken from Etiemble’s only collection of poems (out of thousands which he burned in...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epigraph, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Exploitations Crystal Glass
Darkness' epigraph amid this insatiable desire to penetrate and thus 

Manipulate, mannas created flesh....

Entities of which it has claimed as its own across these regions...

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Categories: epigraph, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?



Not Enough Gags
(On the morning of February 25, 1983, the great dramatist 
Tennessee Williams was found dead in a New York hotel suite. 
He had choked on...

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Categories: epigraph,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Art Ekphrasis-Action Painting-Recited
ACTION PAINTED EKPHRASIS
Spontaneity drips involuntary &
yet deliberate from above.Joyous 
expression of inhibitions,inner 
experience made free to be.
Painter and creative force united
 as one living moment.It...

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Categories: epigraph, art,
Form: Verse
Beauteous Strength
Majestic rugged, crude beauty without any questions, 
Angling at the inside, asking for my equations, 
Jesting with me almost, whispering that I emerge, 
Endeared to...

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Categories: epigraph, beautiful, conflict, identity, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Tempest's Flail
Epigraph:

When Sailors go to Sea,
and seek distant lands.
As every man Knows,
The Reaper's at Hand.
So, that's how it Goes
and that's how it stands.
When Sailors go to...

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Categories: epigraph, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Steffi Graf's Autograph
I went to the zoo to feed a giraffe 
Brought some chocolates to the staff
Chatted and had a good laugh
Told them my dream was to...

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Categories: epigraph, celebrity, fun, tribute, word
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Cheesy Beaky and Squeak
Three tombs stand by the beaten path
among the dry and trodden grass,
not hewn in stone that they would last
but corrugated cardboard 
each bearing felt-tipped epigraph.

The...

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Categories: epigraph, children, death, grief, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fading Tone
Scenes from the casual flow of life
Full risen when the mental void prints.
"Notice their vibration as minor strife."
It may also include some rich hints.

I share...

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Categories: epigraph, analogy, fate, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Us Verse, After Auden
US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch

"Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful." - W. H. Auden

Verse has small value in...

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Categories: epigraph, beautiful, Lullaby, song, together,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Carp
Carp


A Carp in the fryer,
is worth far more than,
all the trout in a lake.


By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison...

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Categories: epigraph, fish, simple,
Form: Other
Kharkiv Welcome
Russian soldier, welcome.
You now stand to discard the rule of logic,
welcome to our home, our oblast.
You are welcome to register at the city hall;
fellow tourists...

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Categories: epigraph, war,
Form: Free verse

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