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Premium Member In November
In November I write of winter
  for I am weary of the old year and tired bones
I visualize all hardships blanketed with fresh snowfall
geese...

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Categories: families, november, poetry, seasons, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: families, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Celebration of Mothers
I celebrate wonderful mothers 
who always put the needs 
of their children first,
the single mothers who 
especially must sacrifice 
to help their children survive 
and...

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Categories: families, celebration, dedication, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - Where You Bloom - 4
A transparent melody paints the walls
in the coloured scent of fresh linen.

The changing of sheets in the morning air
can not erase our dance from evening...

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Categories: families, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member India
I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the language
Swelling in...

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Categories: families, appreciation, art, dance, music,
Form: Rhyme



The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: families, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Blessings In the Loving Arms of Jesus
Blessings are real
Blessings are true
Blessings are sent from God to you

Early in the mornings 
In late afternoons
Blessings despite the gloom and doom

Blessings are free
Blessings will...

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Categories: families, blessing, jesus, motivation,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: families, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member shadows of sacrifice -
~ for the scores of casualties who fight the war at home … the silent war of broken hearts and families ~

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Categories: families, absence, death, lonely, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alone At the Holocaust Museum
ALONE AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

rose early in the morning,
indulged in a lovely quiche lorraine,
ventured out

          ...

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Categories: families, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: families, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lions Led By a Donkey
I could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their...

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Categories: families, death, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Blessed Christmas For All With Poetry Soup
A BLESSED CHRISTMAS FOR ALL WITH POETRY SOUP

Dear Caren, Andrea, Cay Cay, Carolyn and Jan
Rico, Arturo, Paul and Chris, all of you are the same...

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Categories: families, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...

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Categories: families, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: families, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things