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Premium Member Contemplating Calculations
You could say:  
       Variety attracts a free spirit, a soul with curiosity - 
   ...

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Categories: figures, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dyslexic Composition
When stars ascend and illuminate moonlight,
he sits in the midst of childhood confusion,
bricks in ruby quartz, shape pearl-face of twilight,
crafting a castle from artistic vision
where...

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Categories: figures, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Rispetto
....The Title ^fight....
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Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed

Its been a long fight....

Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw

Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows

Crowd...

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Categories: figures, faith, love, passion, time
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: figures, political
Form: Couplet
The Gift of Words
It’s said that God bestows on us, each and every soul,
A special gift just meant for us, to make our lifetime whole.
How often I have...

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Categories: figures, god, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Paint a Picture Black and Gray
Pull out the easel
   set the canvas 
    positioned long and slender clean slate.
Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage
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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: figures, africa, art, dark, grief,
Form: Imagism
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: figures, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Marionette Master
~Marionette Master~    

All my dreams evolve around my wooden floor
Candles and clowns the show must go on

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The Moon slowly moves its way...

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Categories: figures, abuse, fear, me, moon,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Beacons of Light
As long as man has lived upon this Earth
     The quest for beacons of light has endured
Primitive cultures, man’s earliest ancestors
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Categories: figures, faith, hope, inspirationallight, light,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Thoughts of a Very Old Apartment
Winter is approaching.
 I feel it in my floorboards; in my baseboards;
in every nook and cranny.
I wait to be filled again at this time of...

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Categories: figures, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Machinating the Manger Scene
Machinating the manger scene

The little shepherd sat at night
and kept his sheep within his sight
he gazed up at the starry night
and saw one star was...

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Categories: figures, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Me, Myself and Ice
Only the cold crunching
of the fresh snow bunching,
and the tired leather boots
as I take that first step

Can be heard right here
by no other frozen ear,
for...

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Categories: figures, nature, silence, snow, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
The Day That Died Forever
When I am Colder,Older and then alone...
I will collect the sky on my own...
When the art has faded and the days then fade-
when everyone has...

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Categories: figures, adventure, angst, art, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member mon cygne noire -
now ...

dance for me …
eyes of polished onyx pierce
me like the keen edge of a scalpel,
deftly wielded ...
the blood of my black
heart flowing in and...

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Categories: figures, dance, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pearl of Merry
Between the trees tall figures

Sisters hidden by perfect mirrors

Behind shivering trees pale and drawn

Shadows snicker at glories dawn



Fairies draw near flickering sheer petal wings

By quivering...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: figures, fairy, magic, muse, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs