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Premium Member A Poets Abode
A Poet’s Abode

A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...

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Categories: express, art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Words - the Heart of Imagination
This seasoned evening
sported a full faced 
Orange Kool-Aid moon.

Fully aware it was a marvel
it shot me an arrogant wink.

Not once but twice.

I think i heard it laugh.

It...

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Categories: express, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: express, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: express, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shepherd Who Forgot His Flock
It's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see

sometimes they bleed.

Some say words heal,
but I resist to...

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Categories: express, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: express, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Editing of Me
My words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction 

I wanted to resist...

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Categories: express, conflict, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Even In Silence We Have Our Words
sometimes
we are afraid to jump
but we take the leap

sometimes
when we fall deeply
it's not our limbs injured

sometimes
what is meant for us
hurts too much

sometimes
nothing makes sense
confusion reigns...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: express, philosophy, poetry, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute To Poetry Soupers
There's Danny with his love light burning,
Then Victor with his soulful yearning. 
Jan makes us laugh with wit and delight,
Armand serenades us all through the...

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Categories: express, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: express, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Poets Come Together As One
Lets flatten the curve with our words and soften our quill.
We are world siblings, showing solidarity through will.
Words that heal are like a prayer in...

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Categories: express, hope, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?

Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware...

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Categories: express, romantic,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member I Think of You - At the Edge - 3
A reflection of the coloured pencil drawn sky
skates on the glass smooth surface below it.
While a rebellious group of shades take their positions 
on a...

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Categories: express, introspection, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Gift of Poetry
A poet enters a private sanctuary,
A sacred place where the imagination
Dwells with a mélange of emotions
Conceived by aesthetic beauty,
Often divine and esoteric in nature;
That comprehensive...

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Categories: express, art, poetry, uplifting, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Is the Cure
When smoke consumes clear horizons,
manipulating corridors of the mind,
beckoning imminent afflictions

poetry is the remedy.

A poet's first eternal love,
forming an authentic bond.
A tonic of silent expressions
creating...

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Categories: express, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs