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Premium Member The Best Poem Ever
~The best poem ever~

Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....

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Categories: explaining, death, words, heart, heart,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Things I Cherish
The things I value,
The things I cherish,
Are things no one else will
When I perish

Do I write a missive
Explaining the why?
Would this help save things
After I...

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Categories: explaining, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Me
Deeply dipped in red, the Heart of a Rose
explaining the motive behind this act
Purpose being, to open and expose
knowing not how, the Soul will truly...

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Categories: explaining, simple, words,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the...

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Categories: explaining, beauty, fate, hope, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To My Dearest Children - Potd
Dear Children,

I can only give you a deep love that lasts
The span of my lifetime, nothing less.
On a quotidian basis, you will feel 
The warmth...

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Categories: explaining, encouraging, meaningful, wisdom,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: explaining, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts, a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts, 
A Collaboration with Susan Ashley
 
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from...

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Categories: explaining, beautiful, blessing, happiness, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jealousy Rages
She storms into the room
there is fire in her eyes
and thunder in her step
rage rumbling reckless
She's livid
a live wire of fire
charged
She's on the move
To punish
Is...

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Categories: explaining, jealousy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Creeping Naked
Wearing clothes to bed simply makes no sense
I must float freely on my waterbed
But when I wake in the morning, I’m tense
Wrinkles from the sheets...

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Categories: explaining, angst, funny,
Form: Dizain
He Gave Her a Book
"Heaven Open To Souls"  

I walked into the room and found an old tattered book 
sitting on my bed like a still born child...

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Categories: explaining, analogy, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ascending Belonging
Ascending within; to feel my happiness climB
Setting out solo; internal ecstasy can providE
Carving contentment by relearning to crawL
Enjoying this wonderful spiritual crescendO
Noticing on the way;...

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Categories: explaining, deep, inspiration, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Cycle of Past, Present, And Future
I left the past, in all its fullness, thinking, surely life isn’t complete.
     Next came the present, a flower in full...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explaining, change, destiny, future, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Labels
You tell me that my love is not real
You tell me that my love needs to be more concrete
More box that I should fit into
More...

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Categories: explaining, pride, slam,
Form: Free verse
Playing Games With Tennis Balls
>Playing games with tennis balls?

Men, playing games with tennis balls!
Earn far too much dough.
In the game of tennis you know.
Some male players are now acting...

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Categories: explaining, cool, encouraging, games, gender,
Form: I do not know?
A Very Wise Woman
I was one of many that had the priviledge
to live with my Grandparents.  The lessons
I learned from them will remain with me for
the rest...

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Categories: explaining, grandparents,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs