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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: farther, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme



If You Weren'T Such a Nut Meg
She had so many chances
     Yet she kept muffin it up
Butter intentions were good
     Just not much...

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Categories: farther, food, fun, humor, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The L In Da Name Linda Stands For Love
"Shhh,  look there they are. 
No one believed me. 
Now you see them too.
 A blessing of Unicorns. 

 If anyone knew where they were
it would be the end of...

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Categories: farther, light,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: farther, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails
Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails

Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today...

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Categories: farther, appreciation, beauty, creation, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member ugly gray rock -
an ugly gray rock, so I kicked it along
amused by my memories, humming a song
it was jagged and rough - I gave it no mind
and...

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Categories: farther, beauty, humanity, metaphor, nature,
Form: Couplet
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: farther, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because I Live
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
  Is our destined end or way;
  But to act, that each to-morrow
  Find us farther than today.”
A...

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Categories: farther, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: farther, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jack
I saw him on the highway
Thought he was insane
Standing with his thumb out 
In the pouring rain
I don't usually stop for hitchhikers
But something said I...

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Categories: farther, faith, life, mystery, life,
Form: Couplet
This Crazy Heart of Mine
My heart        a sky of sunny spells
Of passing clouds and  falling tears

Sometimes it shines   ...

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Categories: farther, heart, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty of Night
Breezing purple vibes of nocturnal delight
Eventide’s afterglow blushes sanguine night
As leaves chromatic swirl, waltzing to alight
Bestowing gilded motifs on dreamy sight
Sprinkling ebullience on meadows aglow
Exuberant...

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Categories: farther, beautiful, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blue Horizons
beyond cobalt horizon’s expanse
fishing ships far offshore call to me
how joyful were those years
casting, catching, communing
lines between God and nature faded

ocean tides rule my life
joy...

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Categories: farther, fishing, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Poets
So you fancy that you know the poet?
I for one, wouldn’t dare make that claim!
Poets have ventured where few men have been,
And the poet is...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farther, how i feel, poets,
Form: Verse
High Tide
High tide
sadness billows
swells over me in waves
massive, silent, overwhelming
melancholy ocean engulfing me
flailing, drowning in emotion
or maybe I'm being
too dramatic
only-

It feels
that dramatic-
my universe slightly
out of orbit...

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Categories: farther, anxiety, bereavement, depression, emotions,
Form: Rictameter

Book: Reflection on the Important Things