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Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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Categories: fighting, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry



Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: fighting, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: fighting, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Sun's Last Glow
On her terrace where she once had viewed a crimson field,
she stands recalling heroes who were battling their foe.
She still can feel the terror! How...

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Categories: fighting, heart, lost love, may,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member You'Re the Poem
If only this poetry could define,
how your presence takes me towards cloud nine.
Your touch brings sensations that feel divine,
yet, my tongue is quiet, fighting this...

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Categories: fighting, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Humanity Keeps Bleeding
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice...

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Categories: fighting, humanity, introspection, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Road Crash of Words
Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

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Categories: fighting, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: fighting, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
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: fighting, light,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member On the Wings of a Butterfly- POTD - Collab With My Sister Cecilia Crasto
POTD 10th May 2018

A dedication to our departed Mum, Anne Forbes.
 And to all the dearly departed Mums who celebrate Mother’s day on the second...

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Categories: fighting, dedication, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Streets of Blood
Streets of blood

She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow

With swine and pearls running...

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Categories: fighting, hate, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: fighting, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gemini Heart
Meet me in forever,
where the moon enclasps
the enchanting 
   heaven above us,
for you, are the music 
     playing on...

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Categories: fighting, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Triolet For Linda
To those you care for, always you impart
deep love; how beautiful and sweet you are!
I pray you find a way to mend your heart.
To those...

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Categories: fighting, encouraging,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Do Not Cry
Come, my friend, 
Do not cry
For
Tears blur your vision of life,
Distorting thus reality    
 
Come, my friend,
Wipe your tears and see how...

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Categories: fighting, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs