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Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: excavate, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: excavate, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
My Looking Glass Self
I fear not the unknown
but what I cannot unleash and interpret
stifled emotions blur my vision
leaving my looking glass self – unclear

my insides are in disarray,...

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Categories: excavate, introspection, self, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Crazy One and the Spelling Bee, Oh I Mean, Queen
In my quest to escape monotony at work I stumbled upon this poetry site
Little did I know I would excavate a gem with a zest...

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Categories: excavate, friendship, crazy, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Turned To Stone
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?"
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.

Who tries to grow out of this...

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Categories: excavate, psychological, simile, time, water,
Form: Free verse



At the Flower Market
At the flower market
I found spice, holy water,
cobblestoned obsidian dreams,
but no flowers.

The blustery Tuscany day
showed me its underlying graffiti,
incantations of poetica esoterica, 
and yet another...

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Categories: excavate, introspection, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Nose How To Pick Em - Warning
Sue found an impossible task,
To ‘excavate’ wearing her mask,
Now Sue cannot linger,
With her little finger,
To abstain has been a big ask

Since childhood Sue’s ‘explored ‘her...

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Categories: excavate, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member In 2118
In the Great War’s aftermath a handful survived,
though seven billion had perished.
Time to excavate a country’s history arrived
and much speculation had been nourished.
Survivors sought signs...

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Categories: excavate, faith, history,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Crazy One and the Spelling Bee, Oh I Mean, Queen
In my quest to escape monotony at work I stumbled upon this poetry site
Little did I know I would excavate a gem with a zest...

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Categories: excavate, friendship, crazy, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Diamonds That Loose Their Lusture
We are all born imperfect
But yet 
pure in heart and mind
Diamonds that shine and sparkle
That lose their lustre with the ravages of time
Life can be...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: excavate, baby, children, conflict, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lust Is As Ill-Considered a Weed
LUST IS AS ILL-CONSIDERED A WEED
  AS EVER STOLE SCENT


Rejected in the main as superstition -
A gadfly, I’m alone upon the weed:
A hot cinquefoil...

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Categories: excavate, abuse, depression, march,
Form: Sonnet
Who Do You Think I Am
Life is much bigger than I imagined it could be,
There is more beyond the horizon of Hope through my Faith.
I am Uniquely made as seen...

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Categories: excavate, blessing, courage, devotion, faith,
Form: Prose
Allamanda, Our Trumpeters
Opening my eyes after a night long rest
I cuddled in my soft cushiony bed
And looked outside my sunny arched windows.
The glorious king was lazily greeting
My...

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Categories: excavate, bird, flower, garden,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member Tanya
She stalks the garden looking for a feast
Once she gets one, she can bite or incite
Gaze into her playful eye for instance
Quickly am caught in...

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Categories: excavate, animal, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Gold Rush
Able bodies come..
dig .. excavate.. find gold..
how I jumped..keep looking..
mercy.. Nothing!.. 
ore... picks..quick rising 
settlements.. tents.. Unbelievable..
Vigilantes.. Worries... xenophobic.. 
yelling zestfully.....

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Categories: excavate, adventure, cowboy-western, devotion, history,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs