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Premium Member The Missionary and the Bum
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formally, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose



Premium Member I Am Poetically Bankrupt
© Arthur Vaso 2014
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Notes: This poem was formally called “Winter Blizzard” I just posted it with a new title. If you know of what I...

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Categories: formally, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Home Sweet Home
Home is not merely made of four walls
Home is not merely made of roof and room
Home is where the love and affection calls
And the home...

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Categories: formally, home,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Quest For Tolerance
new nation to craft
founding fathers sought to draft
a declaration of independence
document that made sense

Thomas Jefferson sought to free slaves
but was warned not to make waves
five...

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Categories: formally, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Harmony Through Love
We haven’t been formally acquainted 
Though your words now travel in me
A picture of harmony you’ve painted
Love truest, in the very highest degree

Trouble in the...

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Categories: formally, happiness, love, relationship, tribute,
Form: Sonnet



The Dance
Yesterday lingers in my memory today
Perched on a manicured hill after the last bell
All my friends surrounding me 
She strolls by, I catch blue eyes...

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Categories: formally, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aunt Grace's Peach Cobbler
Around the corner and half a block away, the flavor would grab me, tie me up to some irresistible force, then drag my nose to...

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Categories: formally, family, food, joy, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Angels On Your Shoulders
Stare all over, O World, you scarcely utter.
Bear stalwart angels to arise over the air tugger.
Odoriferous water may abscond the realm of prosily.
Such as the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formally, allusion, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gems of Reality
Gems Of Reality


Gems of reality are thoughtfully

expressed thru imagery of poetry

to shape so earnestly and fervently

poems that formally shine artfully

reflecting history and mystery

of one's tranquility...

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Categories: formally, poetry,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Veterans Day
Veterans Day

We were happy
With the war over.
Our eyes swelled tears
When the guns ceased fire.

Those long years
Of suffering ended;
Lives shattered
Always wondering.

And on that day
Soldiers marching,
Rifles shouldered,...

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Categories: formally, america, holiday, remember, remembrance
Form: Verse
Premium Member One Good Neighbor
He came night after night. I don’t know how long he favored me in such          ...

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Categories: formally, animal, care, cat, dedication,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Translation of Cuppiramania Bharathiyar's Poem: Kannamma, My Love By T Wignesan
Translation of Cuppiramania Bharathiyar’s poem: Kannamma, My Love! (Kannamma En Kaathali) by T. Wignesan

Yet another poem by the most famous modern Tamil poet, written a...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formally, girlfriend, innocence, longing, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three

Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia...

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Categories: formally, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
A Letter From God
Why are we so stupid, Lord? Why do we yell and shout, rant and rave,pillage and kill? Why do we cheat and lie, ignore and...

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Categories: formally, appreciation, god, humorous, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Country Cemetery
It is the way the light
Filters through the gum trees
The way the rows of graves
Reflect a certain reverence
The way the crosses
Cast a shadow
The way the...

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formally, age, analogy, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things