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Premium Member Life, To Me
Colors daubed for seasons' scenes
          I sift through life for what it means
   ...

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Categories: favourite, appreciation, friendship, life, love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Adrift In Fiction
Placid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.

Oblivious to the storm,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: favourite, analogy, appreciation, books,
Form: Prose
Doll
"Hi Doll!"
He's been calling me that for years
I like it

Truth is I have always been a doll

My permanent smile
My open arms

I was a sweet sixteen's...

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Categories: favourite, abuse, appreciation, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse
Winter's Afterglow
stars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.

she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: favourite, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dragonflies Dancing
Sunlight sparkles on the shimmering pond
its mirror like surface smooth as silk
dragonflies dance across the water 
performing aerial acrobatics like a circus in the air

Water...

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Categories: favourite, beauty, dance, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ozzie Our Spaniel
The 28th of April; I'll always remember that day
It was very overcast and the sky was quite grey
That short journey to the vet I will...

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Categories: favourite, best friend, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
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Categories: favourite, introspection,
Form: Free 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: favourite, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Listless As a Lazy River
I’m listless as a lazy river
barely lapping at the shore.
I wanted once to find the ocean,
but I don’t care any more.

Would I even make a...

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Categories: favourite, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member on water and wing -
cob swan and I have met here many times
    as heaven's hem is melting, pink and peach
     ...

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Categories: favourite, analogy, appreciation, bird, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
I Have Chocolate
To say 
I have chocolate 
can say 
so many things 
from you were right
to I was wrong 
to I haven’t seen you in so long
it...

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Categories: favourite, chocolate, relationship, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: favourite, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Q Tipping
I remember when
Q was part of a Tip
now Q is a one way trip
to crazy town
It’s a place where thoughts flip
and up is down
Where every...

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Categories: favourite, abuse, america, angst, discrimination,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Penny For Your Thoughts
So many pennies,
lost in the system,
rejected, neglected,
dejected -
cursed by '99' price tags,
a charity box favourite,
nobody wants nor waits for.

So many forgotten pennies,
lost on the streets...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: favourite, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Sanctuary
This global pandemic causes confusion from social isolation.
In a virtual world without human touch - there will be irritation.

When burdens of life, echo like chunks...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: favourite, peace, senses, silence,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs