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Premium Member Gods of Winds
Notus comes creeping furtively from the south
hot and bothered from the blazing summer sun.
The wind of change...concealed it launches sudden storms
as clouds pile up across...

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Categories: exerts, wind,
Form: Verse



Angels
Angels come in a variety of sizes,
often unexpected, full of surprises.
Times when we’re in direst need,
without fanfare or showy parade,
they’ll comfort us with timely aid,
being...

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Categories: exerts, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sun
Sun comes stealthily through dawn’s blush -
peeking up over the horizon.

Climbing steadfastly to celestial heights -
he reaches the crown of day
as one who reigns supreme.

Extending...

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Categories: exerts, nature,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Flights of Passion
You give me a lift
to those heights I once dreamt of.
You support me in your warm embrace
and the heat comes through the silk and lace.
I...

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Categories: exerts, passion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member He Walked Midnight Sands, In Deserts of Black Light
He Walked Midnight Sands, In Deserts Of Black Light

He walked midnight sands, in deserts of black light
along old ghostly trails with shadows glowing bright 
Never...

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Categories: exerts, art, dark, death, halloween,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Silent Thunder
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: exerts, poetry, poets,
Form: Ottava rima
Dark Matter Matters
Dark matter seems to be
What isn’t there to be seen
In between
What we see.

They dub it dark since you cannot detect it
Nor can they inspect it
With...

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Categories: exerts, creation, dark, deep, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Twilight Eyes
Eyes the color of twilight hours,
looks down from a canvas throne.
Captured for an eternity,
her languid form, in repose.

Queen of all she surveys,
within these crumbling walls.
Moth...

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Categories: exerts, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Divine Comedy Translation, Hell Canto Xi
On the extremity of  a tall bank 
Of big broken stones in round circle done
We reached up a more cruel clutter flank;

And there, for...

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Categories: exerts, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Flights of Passion
You give me a lift
to those heights I once dreamt of.
You support me in your warm embrace
and the heat comes through the silk and lace.
I...

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Categories: exerts, passion, relationship,
Form: Lyric
A November Day
The morn dawned bright, with autumnal light,
the cool air was crisp and clean:
overnight snows that fell, as all could tell,
had changed the country scene!

Sounds heard...

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Categories: exerts, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blind Rage
My muscles twitch along their length
as words gain volume in my brain.
And my temper exerts its strength
spewing insults fraught with disdain.

When anxiety warps what's real,
the...

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Categories: exerts, abuse, anger, angst, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Vis Gelu - the Power of Ice
Ice is the strangest substance
upon this earth then yet it
is seen as insignificant by
many.
It forms from water-droplets
within clouds, flowing rivers
and even in oceans where energy
is...

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Categories: exerts, nature, science, snow, power,
Form: Free verse
Star of David
he stood 
among the swasticka's 


a star 
in the center of chaos


and still
he couldn't comprehend


with ticket in hand 
for a train 
that was heavily laden...

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Categories: exerts, history, people, sad, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bucky's Wealth of Information
Universal information,
form emerging from multisystemic diastasis,
is composed of fractal syntax,
primally illustrated by looking at RNA,
then DNA,
binomially re-cognizing bilateral temporal memory
as formative id-entity.

Polynomials are to in-form-ionization
as...

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Categories: exerts, culture, math, nature, religion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs