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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: fail, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: fail, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pretty Shoes and Cracked Feet
Once I'm gone 
I'll only be remembered a small while
I'm a tiny tick on a large dial
The words I breathe will stretch about a mile
Even...

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Categories: fail, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ungrateful Child
I woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.

I remember...

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



The Wind
I am the wind

You cannot see me but you can feel me

Breezing gently through your hair

Brushing slightly across your cheek

Whispering softly 'neath your ear

I am...

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Categories: fail, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: fail, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Treasure In Adversity
i am no longer
lost in the labyrinth
of your twisted mentality

i kiss the lips of freedom

once you drove
me insane in the brain
now stubborn stains wash away

i...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail, hope, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cobwebs - Season of Death
Sometimes life is the tragedy
of a fly, caught in a cobweb -
awaiting its fate.

It's happening again,
a child of summer misplaced
in the dawn of autumn's anguish....

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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Inspired by life’s goals, winners are...

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Categories: fail, life, loss, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: fail, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beneath the Shattered
Test me
I am willing
To fail

Failure
Is not fatal
At all

All things
Are born to be
Broken

Break free
From the outer
Hard shell

Shells can
Hide the beauty
Within

With love
Flowing freely
We glow

Glowing
For all the world
To...

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Categories: fail, birth, courage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sunday Musings
Judgement
You light the fire, then play the victim.
It's not my fire, yet you let it burn.
Rage and pain drive you insane,
creating a parody of hypocritical...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail, emotions, judgement, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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Categories: fail, art, death, hero, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Lady On the Church Steps
I had seen her before in the spring and summer
The homeless lady sitting on the church steps
She would ask for help from people going into...

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Categories: fail, appreciation, christmas, december, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs