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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: failings, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pride and Joy of His Family
Having lived on earth for some time now
Impatiently he dwells, harboring self doubt.
In face of impediments he loses his mind
Acquiring dispositions like hate and lies,
Hosting...

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Categories: failings, integrity, life, men, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In Shame
IN SHAME

When I was a little girl father brutally beat me down with such severity, and humiliation, causing me to hang my head down low...

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Categories: failings, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Oldest Daughter On Her Birthday
To My Dearest Daughter, Sommer ...

When I was growing up love seemed a very elusive and capricious thing, and I spent more time just trying...

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Categories: failings, child, father daughter, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Forever Faithful
Merciful and loving Father, 
Thank You for forgiving my faults and flaws
and fortifying me with the favor of Your friendship.
I fervently vow to You, my...

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Categories: failings, god, relationship,
Form: Alliteration



The Scar - Written In Collaboration By Lynn Marie and Victor Buhagiar
Are you happy with your work doctor?

Look at me when I talk to you.

I looked in the mirror you know.

Mirrors don't lie.

What you see is...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: failings, angel, anger, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Sought To Touch All the Burning Fires
I Sought To Touch All The Burning Fires

 This moment is not for being lazily idle
 in the distance starting gunshot sounds
 This racehorse needs...

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Categories: failings, conflict, creation, deep, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
My Angel Renee
Each night when I go to bed
I think of all the words I've said
And ponder on the things I've  done
How your love I had...

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© Richard H  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: failings, love, love, i love
Form: Quatrain
Millennial Wisdom
I remember a lot of chemistries.
My memories, limbs and bones,
I value these the most.
I know the remedies.

I remember a lot of literacies.
My letters, numbers, and...

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Categories: failings, devotion, first love, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of the Greeks, Olympus, Blindness of Modern Man
Of The Greeks, Olympus, Blindness Of Modern Man

And the modern Gods laugh poisoning wells 
While their blinded throngs hide under sad stones
From the deepest pits...

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Categories: failings, art, creation, deep, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Inconstant Beloved
At eventide,
Under the roseate glow
Of the receding evening sun
I sauntered down the road
To where my beloved dwell
Not far-off from my own abode

Fast by his threshold...

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Categories: failings, betrayal, break up, feelings,
Form: Ballad
The Vampire Monk, Part I
I.
In the year sixteen hundred and thirty-five
I was a fool young man known as Ludwig,
back from the wars and flush with new money,
spent it on...

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Categories: failings, change, dark, evil, faith,
Form: Epic
I Never Danced the Tango
“I Never Danced The Tango”


I have more than a few
Regrets in life…

I wish I’d loved my children…
Much more,
Much longer,
Much stronger.

I would wish to be
Much wiser,
Much...

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© Jan Pearce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: failings, dance, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
You and I
You and I
I concede 
You are virtuous 
I am delinquent 
You refrain from forbidden
I oftentimes give in
You pride on your piety 
I accept my fallibility...

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Categories: failings, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Quest
"The true beauty of love is clear
            a bond to be until we disappear"...Poet


I...

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Categories: failings, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things