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Premium Member Moonstruck Maiden
What beauty reflected in love's fair eyes,
a passion treasured beyond all measure.
As ardor stirred flames, I failed to disguise
the need in my loins ere want...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: failed, longing,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: failed, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: failed, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: failed, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Hoping You Can Feel Me
I sit alone and I think of you, hoping you can hear me
If I close my eyes just before I sleep, I can see you...

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Categories: failed, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passionme, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: failed, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Robin and the Sparrow
Oh if I were a true poet
one that could write a good rhyme
I would compose a few ones
and earn myself a dime.
 
Why, I'd write...

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Categories: failed, bird, red,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: failed, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Drunk Drivers Guilt
I drove home from a party one winters night
I'd had quite a few drinks but I felt alright
It was pouring rain as I approached our...

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Categories: failed, car, death, drink, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You Are God and I Have To Believe
YOU ARE GOD and I HAVE TO BELIEVE


My dear Father God above the heavens high
ever loving and ever faithful in loving me
even though, I am...

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Categories: failed, christian, conflict, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Thing Called Love - POTD - With Winged Warrior
POTD 19 September 2017

Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as...

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Categories: failed, love, mystery, romance, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories of Bygone Days
Memories Of Bygone Days


O' yes,  how well I remember her still
giant black oak atop big wooded hill
Those treasured days now long flown by
our free...

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Categories: failed, emotions, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tangled Vines
I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new...

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Categories: failed, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: failed, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Mirror of Life
As I stand mindfully, facing mirror of my life,
Juxtaposition of yesteryears’ reflections revive 
Mountains of grief and valleys of despairs,
Heartwarming wins and heartbreaking losses,
Echoes strumming...

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Categories: failed, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs