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Premium Member Fairy Princess
eyes of beauty
shines dark sapphire
sparkling diamonds
dazzling jewels
opens the heart
piercing feelings
in emotions charm
enchants a soul


cherry cheeks blushing
in sweet desire
hair the color 
of a raven
falling feelings
as lips...

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Categories: fleshless, romance,
Form: Free verse



When Birds Sing Sweetly,
When birds sing sweetly , 


bright notes fall on deaf ears.

My sightless sockets
no longer watch the setting sun descend 
in orange splendour
behind purple hills.
My fleshless...

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Categories: fleshless, death, gothic, grave, life,
Form: Free verse
The West Is Burning
Glory goes to they who blaze
Their own trail upon the west.
They will be, if nothing else, remembered.
Their morality ambiguous
Scruples questionable.
At best, an antihero to be...

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleshless, america, corruption, culture, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Insignificance of Man
Blunt deadly weapons of mass destruction
electrify, fracture, and
jeopardize *****Sapiens
species (and entire biosphere)
continuity rent asunder

doomsday declared (nuclear winter
gallows humor spelt
with eternal snow day)
dystopian authors outflanked
nuclear...

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Categories: fleshless, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Earth At Night
A suave gaze, woolly texture, embellished its gaiety gesture
The charmeuse moon, perched like a napping heavenly dove,
Clothed by swarms of floating stars, glazing its snowy...

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Categories: fleshless, earth, nature, night, summer,
Form: Rhyme



White Pumpkin, You Say?
A white pumpkin? My first thought:

A large white fleshless bony hand
or two, joined at the wrists to creepily band
together to form a gourd;
reaching out of...

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Categories: fleshless, holiday
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flying Without Wings
one heart travels
through time and space
charmed in words
lands a warm breath 
of fresh air
enrapturing feeling
floating upon cloud nine
emotions euphoria
singing blissfully
into the soul's eye

in mirrored reflections
the...

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Categories: fleshless, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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Categories: fleshless, animal, best friend, death
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member My Idea of Hell
My idea of Hell 
is not that of demons with red-pokers, 
emerging from hot flames... 
as Dante's Inferno; this is the harshest punishment!


Shouldn't all persecuted...

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Categories: fleshless, faithme, people, me, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Shining Soul
sipping early morning dew
tasting emotions
as feelings brew
drawing behind 
the eyes
a star gleaming
magically shooting arrows
Cupid's every wish

inside enchanting beautiful 
sparkling  a soul
golden delicious
dancing fleshless
magic floating...

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Categories: fleshless, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Orphan and the Whale
Of the rescued orphan was the last he wrote;
twas a very fine end, till he boarded his boat.
Relishing in triumph of a tale well told,
he...

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Categories: fleshless, adventure, sea,
Form: Rhyme
The African Child
I see hunger written in mixed 
colors in their
eyes.
sickness eating their eye 
lashes with fun.
i see sorrow racing in their 
eye ball,
and its depth in...

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Categories: fleshless, loss, passion, peace, war,
Form: Blank verse
The Day Dad Went To Belsen
The tank stopped abruptly
And we sat open mouthed
At what we beheld
Our brains could not assimilate
What our eyes were seeing
Great mounds of …. What?
It can’t be...

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Categories: fleshless, war
Form: Free verse
Came the Knock Upon My Door
'Twas the night of hallows eve
Outside I heard screaming,
Children were trick or treating,
They were happy halloweening.

Came the knock upon my door
Loudly, it rapped twice.
Sweets in...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleshless, halloween, horror, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Subjects
From my bathroom throne
		I overlook heads of trees
		men for all seasons
		who sway and still
		like felt and feathered burghers
		dependent on his lordship’s
		words.

		In glowering times
		they cloak themselves...

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© Bill Keen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleshless, assonance, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs