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Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: explain, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: explain, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: explain, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: explain, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Sometimes We Don'T Get a Chance To Say Goodbye
sometimes
we don't get a chance
to say goodbye

you sit there
tears in your eyes
wondering why

and

it don't make sense
to be strong
because it stings

you can't explain
the pain each
memory brings

and

the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explain, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love's Chemical Derivatives
Can  love then,  be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...

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Categories: explain, love, science,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.

In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explain, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explain, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Stars and Those With Stripes
"America First",
is the worst.
Should not thinking of others,
be your thirst?
Those who are selfish,
end up being cursed!
Soon they'll be last,
instead of first.

Who among you,
prefers guns and...

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Categories: explain, black african american, class,
Form: Political Verse
Silence
When the words were intense
and the soul no longer 
conceded to comfort 
Thoughts got blind 
and the heart beats in tension 
Silence
*****
Absent are ardent 
words
an...

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Categories: explain, beauty, emotions, heart, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moon and Sea
~Moon & Sea~

Hey, boy won't you open that door?
Let's sing and walk by the shore

Come and spread out your eyes
Block looking for reasons, and ways?

The...

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Categories: explain, adventure, art, beauty, journey,
Form: Couplet
Tell Me a Tale
Tell me a tale of humanity
Paint me the love of your life
Show me a path to humility
How a man should honour his wife.

Help children believe...

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Categories: explain, imagination, poems, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme
To Breathe "you" In....
Your beautiful name, echoing throughout my thoughts

"Everyday!"....But I never tell you this?

Sometimes when I breathe, I close my eyes to imagine

Breathing, everything that you are,...

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Categories: explain, love, passionme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Pointing To the Problems
POINTING TO THE PROBLEMS 
  {Bivouacs}

Beat down with legal fees
Tied up with taxes;
Tripped up with mortgages;
Ripped off with student loans
Insulted with insurance
Telephone updates.

Out of...

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Categories: explain, earth day, emotions, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: explain, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things