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Premium Member The Breadth of My Love
if my love for you was any greater
the trees would  line up in poetic forms
...awe you in sonnets written...
...part...to allow winds to cool your...

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Categories: expand, love, planet, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: expand, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly Kiss
*BUTTERFLY KISS*

I'm still alive and I don't know why?
My heart survived falling from the butterfly sky

Caught by the hands of destiny
With visions only I can...

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Categories: expand, butterfly, fantasy, heart, hope,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member O April
O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost -...

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Categories: expand, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Same Moon -3-Way-Collaboration-
~Under the Same Moon~

P.D.
Our days are different, living under the same moon
Down here in TEXAS, life carries a different tune
This world spins on its lovely...

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Categories: expand, friendship, lifeworld, life, love,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member As Time Slips By
                 
 Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as...

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Categories: expand, faith, love, time,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member At the Golden Dawn of Understanding Potd
It was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.

My fourth graders were...

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Categories: expand, africa, christian, education, history,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Please, May I Walk Into Your Paradise With You - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
Please, May I Walk Into Your Paradise With You - A collaboration with  Susan Ashley
 
Please, may I walk into your paradise with you
with...

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Categories: expand, art, beautiful, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Tale of Billy the Kid
William Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick

“Quien esta?”

Bang!  It’s over, 
you’re a legend now, 
Billy.

Born in Hell’s Kitchen...

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Categories: expand, character, death,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Etheree of Seasons
Spring
summons
season of
rebirth, where birds
build nests for new-borns.
Nature's palette spreads joy
as bright colours flourish with
buttercups, daffodils, bluebells,
blooming with rows of vibrant tulips.
Golden orb begins to spread...

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Categories: expand, appreciation, nature, seasons,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Gentle Summer Rain
She writes about Fall's beauty in the rain 
The falling raindrops' dance ascribing thence 
Bespoken verse that lightens her refrain 
before the time they met...

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Categories: expand, beauty, care, creation, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I, the Clone
I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a...

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Categories: expand, humorous, me, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Other Self
( Repost )

Somehow, her eyes expand with the disobedient sky
and there, she senses urchins filling water on the lake
her feet and thighs slide up changing...

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Categories: expand, fantasy, identity,
Form: Free verse
Lucifer
"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in heaven."

A thousand, million years had fled
then thousand million more,
yet it was still the...

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Categories: expand, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legion of Doom
howling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!

in packs behind...

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Categories: expand, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs