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Premium Member Expired Embers
Written: September 12, 2023
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Sunsets Paint the Sky
Embracing flames of loved ones~
Memories aglow.

Shared dawning vibrant
Now distant, yet remembered~
Love never fades out

Sultry afternoons,
zest height turns to modest...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expired, age, analogy, appreciation, change,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Diamond Cut
"A Broken Demo"

In a desperate cry for help
She hires every jeweler
A cheap sheep crying, Wolf!
Using old repeating politic
utilizing lies * manipulation 
To cover the Glass...

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Categories: expired, abuse, evil, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Mood
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: expired, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Freudian Slip
A poet's soul lay in slumber,
his pen a distasteful adversary. 

A suffering soul lost in yesterday,
stumbled upon his somnolent path.
Enchanted eyes felt her nakedness 
through...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expired, angst, deep, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse
How About This For Veterans Day
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expired, patriotic,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...

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Categories: expired, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Devil Is In This Tale
Her insecurity would not let her see,
I wanted her!
I thought she knew, my heart was opened.
I should've asked.

She walked on a thread, fourteen stories high
to...

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Categories: expired, heart, heaven, i love
Form: Free verse
What's In the Urn
What’s In The Urn

Strangers offered me to join them in a drink
I met them on a mountain edge while skiing
They seemed like friendly normal people...

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Categories: expired, adventure, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Our Time
our
time
cashed out
way before
the meter expired
sending our dreams somersaulting
helter skelter to the whims of what never was planned
leaving fairy tales breathless, our favorite song, weeping still,...

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Categories: expired, lost love, love,
Form: Fibonacci
The Fortune
Britches and snitches
Were out digging ditches
When out from the ground did appear
 
Gold that looked old
if the truth now be told
It was something someone would...

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Categories: expired, friendship, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Babies Unborn
I raise my voice and rage a fight
for little children trashed and thrown.
Sweet little coos and burps never heard,
the printed mittens never sewn.  

These...

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Categories: expired, childhood, children, children,
Form: Rhyme
The Life of Death
What is it about taking your final breath?
What does it mean; the life of death…

The energy in the end of one’s existence, 
has been a...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expired, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reality
My mind is like a dangerous neighborhood
I try to never go there alone.
I thought that after all this time Id finally grown.
I met a spark...

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Categories: expired, how i feel, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Illusive Dream
I fell~ asleep
It was easy to fall*
I slipped~ into a dream
When I couldn't get a grip*
.         ...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expired, confusion, slam, me, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Palindrome Tale
A Palindrome Tale

I’ve got a tale to tell you of travel, love and lust
The travel, it was joyful, my love life was a bust
I met...

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Categories: expired, life, love, on writing
Form: Rhyme

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