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Premium Member Floodgates-------A Title Contest
She remembers the shimmer
of one Sunday morning
The sun had grown dimmer
on the overcast seas
The color of yellow,
spread long amber fingers
And the sycamore trees 
cast strange...

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Categories: floodgates, nature, rain, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member You Let the Moment Pass
Eternity within your grasp
My plea? To undo the clasp
Let Desire wash away
Tomorrow and yesterday
Every other thought and dream
Meaningless I make them seem
Had you let the...

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Categories: floodgates, leaving, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member River's Arisin'
River’s Arising
By Michelle Waters

River’s arising. Danger’s on hand.
Gather up your kinfolk and get to high land.

The campgrounds are empty, RVs are all gone
Tourists packed up...

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Categories: floodgates, environment, heartbreak, home, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the...

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Categories: floodgates, bible, death, earth, god,
Form: Didactic
Turn Your Umbrella Upside Down
In a rain 
downpour
to keep from 
getting wet,
we open 
an umbrella
put it 
overhead,
but yet........
I wish 
to make
a suggestion,
that may 
take 
a moment
to catch on,
for after...

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Categories: floodgates, blessing, humor, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Naked Smile
I look upon her pretty mask
The expression so serene
What lies beneath that naked smile?
Where has this woman been?

I look through the portals to her soul
Those...

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Categories: floodgates, faith, forgiveness, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A First Stolen Date-W
It was a stolen date on a late winter evening
Placing rosy dots on her cheek with a hug
A secret told to the senses instead to...

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Categories: floodgates, romance,
Form: Free verse
A Single Tear
I
                        ...

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Categories: floodgates, sad,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Lulling Symphonies of My Land
Guarded by towering hills on the East 
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell 
That lulls...

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Categories: floodgates, appreciation, home, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Thunder
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: floodgates, poetry, poets,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member The Hopelessness of the Homeless
He is so angry; school is the least of his worries.
Sad are his days; he is nine.
Grandma wants to kick them out; step grandpa hates...

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Categories: floodgates, anger, depression, heartbroken, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wonder Why
Wonder why there's so much hate
   Why the spike in hate of late  
Wonder why some still race bait
   In...

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Categories: floodgates, fate, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hold Back
Hold back, Little Heart,                     ...

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Categories: floodgates, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweetest Release
child gets a puppy
the floodgates of happy tears
trickling down her cheeks


Date written: 05/08/2019...

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Categories: floodgates, child, emotions, happiness, imagery,
Form: Senryu
Inferno Yawn
rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floodgates, beauty, desire, dream, hope,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things