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Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: except, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: except, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Enchanted Forest
The woods were silent except for the shifting 
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon 
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...

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Categories: except, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Daddy
Daddy

Daddy, why did you go away?
Don't you know I wanted you to stay!

Daddy, when you left mom,
Don't you know you left me too?
Now all I...

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Categories: except, blue, dad, depression, father
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feline Alert
*The feline Texan way*

A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...

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Categories: except, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winter
With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...

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Categories: except, winter,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Cookie Jar
Standing on tippy toes
Top shelf 
Reaching
Stretching
Finger tips edging the jar forward
Imagining the taste of chocolate chips on my tongue
Yumm mom's chewy delicious wait till Saturday...

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Categories: except, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry In Poetry a Duet of Lonely Blues
Poetry

Is not the poem
Is not the poet

Is the observations
Is the emotions

Is the diversity. entwined
Opposing views always sought

Is the love
Is the hate

Is the sadness
Of losing to...

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Categories: except, dark, introspection, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: except, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Inside My Head- For Contest
Hello there, do please come inside- no need to wipe your feet
excuse the mess, I fear you'll find it isn't very neat.
This place is always...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: except, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Repent and Believe
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  Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
  I knew what was being taught in church.
 ...

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Categories: except, bible, christian, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bird's Paradise - POTD
Wintry days were turning mild.
After the harsh stormy days.
     Still not a sound could be heard
     Except...

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Categories: except, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: except, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by...

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Categories: except, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
The Voice
The Voice…

On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
     nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself...

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Categories: except, imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Masnavi

Book: Shattered Sighs