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Premium Member A Strange Galaxy
When I gaze into this realm, I see more than the dazzling array
     of golden starbursts floating in a cosmic sea...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exceptional(a), stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Another Man's Clothes
I wonder
Who I might become
If I wore another man's clothes
If I thought his thoughts
Dreamed his dreams
Lived his heartache
Felt his insanity
Walked along his razor's edge

Would I
Understand
Empathize
Digest...

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Categories: exceptional(a), introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys
Ageless Seeds Of Simple Joys

When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can...

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Categories: exceptional(a), appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tom Cunningham Tribute
T_tendernesss and tolerance are his territory.
O_openness to all poets, too!
M_magnanimity and modesty, shine in this friend of mine!

C_compasstion and consideration, so outstanding.
U_understanding of the human...

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Categories: exceptional(a), appreciation, thank you, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: exceptional(a), art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Ancient Hero, Firm and Honorable Til Death
I am very pleased to present a fourth collaboration, this time in rhyme
with my dear friend Lawrence Sharp, a truly exceptional poet. 
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Thank you, Lawrence,...

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Categories: exceptional(a), art, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Just Your Face
Futile is the sun to a heart in awe
And trivial is the moon's cosmic fame

All these voices are nothing but noises 
These Flowers are like...

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Categories: exceptional(a), joy, love, smile,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ice Cube Pie
I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a...

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Categories: exceptional(a), business, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sammy Davis Jr, Pure Talent
Sang like a whippoorwill, up high on a hill
   Played trumpet like Satchmo, with panache and skill
To watch that man tap-dance, gave even...

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Categories: exceptional(a), dance, music, song, tribute,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Poetry: Shadows Coming to Light
Garnering complete elucidation
  within the untrammeled confines
      of several exceptional poetic lines
       ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exceptional(a), poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tom Cunningham Tribute, Repost
                   
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Categories: exceptional(a), appreciation, inspiration, star, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Felony Money
True definition of a hood love story,
They called him Felony.
Skin was as smooth as a shot of Hennessey.
He made a lot of other men envy.
His...

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Categories: exceptional(a), imagination, love, poetry, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Professional Farter - Le Petomane
Ted was a professional farter
and at his windy recitals he’d boast
that could even toot Moonlight Sonata
If his wife fed him baked beans on toast!

There was...

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Categories: exceptional(a), body, humorous, jobs, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life's Undiscovered Passion
LIFE'S UNDISCOVERED PASSION 

I reached up far to touch a star.
It only took a second.
I thought I heard a salient call 
alas it did not...

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Categories: exceptional(a), art, creation, growth, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Adventures of Lbs
The story of "Little Black Sambo", 
with foreign lands all exotic,
was written over a century ago,
when imaginations were chaotic.

The young boy is clearly a hero,
for...

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Categories: exceptional(a), books, childhood, racism,
Form: Rhyme

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