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Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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Categories: flourishing, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic



Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
   ...

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Categories: flourishing, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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Categories: flourishing, analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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Categories: flourishing, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Dormant Decession

I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout...

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Categories: flourishing, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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Categories: flourishing, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: flourishing, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden of a Wounded Soul
Like an ebony rose in a province 
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.

You were never just another...

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Categories: flourishing, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Moon Child
I’m lost within words 
   unwritten between 
     pastel pages of the past, 
Yet I weave lyrical love 
...

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Categories: flourishing, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Corruption of My Lust For Life
Hibiscus rays of light
herald the sun's stretch from slumber
in a bloom of ravishing red passion- 
Oh! how I despise dawn's blushing optimism
and lust for life!
for...

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Categories: flourishing, bereavement, death, innocence, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If only you knew
Is there enough adjectives I can use,
  to sew these sensitive sensations to you,
when my dandelion heart is 
  dense with combustible phrases,
and...

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Categories: flourishing, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Rain
 I am a metaphor for tears,
born from murky clouds,
pouring gracefully or rampantly,
in a choreography of liquid grace,
dancing to the sound of pitter patter,
upon rooftops...

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Categories: flourishing, earth,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Damsel Enchants Felicity
A  DAMSEL  ENCHANTS  FELICITY



Aurora breaks,

Cinderella  damsel  enchants  felicity,

gliding   halcyon--

implanting   jazzy  kisses,

languorous murmurs. . ....

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Categories: flourishing, feelings, love, relationship, romance,
Form: ABC
The Land Where the Lemon-Trees Flower
The Land Where the Lemon-Trees Flower

I know the land where the lemon-trees flower,
where citrus fragrance lingers after a summer shower.
In sun-sweetened India, lemon-trees radiantly bloom,
flourishing...

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Categories: flourishing, beautiful, flower, tree,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Petals - Silence of Heartbeats
Devotion floats in the
silence of heartbeats -
only lovers savor and devour.

I crawled to her
like a caterpillar.
Cradling in her cocoon -
her vision transformed
me into a butterfly.

She...

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Categories: flourishing, assonance, love, sensual,
Form: Free verse

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