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Premium Member Fairytale In My Heart
Into the deep woods cheerfully I walked
Following the path of a lone shining star
Hosting a magical fairytale in my heart
Beholding sweet visions of who you...

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Categories: formative, allegory, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fragments of Fractals
Fractals.

Spawn of iterating quadratic functions.  
Choreographers of cosmic conjunctions.
Impervious to human dysfunctions.

Makers of multiverses.  Encoders of creations.   
Limited only by imaginations.

Recursive....

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formative, nature, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
Flowers Emerge
Flowers Emerge

Impose your will on the pretty flowers as you may
Trans-formative wonderment of nature 
Entrenched, defiled, they pop up any way in clusters
Vivacious are the...

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Categories: formative, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earth Angel
"Oh my God how beautiful!"
   exclaimed my four year old
Granddaughter as we drove over
     a small bridge and she...

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Categories: formative, angel, joy, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Children of the Moon
Mother Moon, queen of the night;
guardian of her children;
you light the way so that they might envision
with clarity, not provided by daylight.

The formative years are...

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Categories: formative, metaphor, moon, space, star,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To the One I Lost Poetry Contest
We became us, me and Pascal
Perhaps slightly out with my rationale
But I was 18, prone to cause a fuss
Me and Pascal, we became us

Difficult goth...

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Categories: formative, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: formative, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member If Only We Had More Time
I'd have whispered, "you're daddy's little boy,"
my everything, my bundle of joy.
We would have explored the cafes, parks, and glades,
snapping photos and improving your grades.
We...

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Categories: formative, angst, baby, death, father
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Caregiver
The Caregiver

“Stop baby girl”, cried my daddy
be careful lest you get yourself hurt
and more often than not foolish words I would utter
and spew forth out...

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Categories: formative, caregiving, devotion, relationship,
Form: Ode
The Eraser Came With Sage Advice
The eraser belonged to me; it was saved by my mother and returned along with many other 
childhood items when I became middle aged. I...

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Categories: formative, introspection, on writing and
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - Natural and Real -
Breathe it in ~ fill up your lungs

Their tones muted as the moving crystals

Hummingbird singing a melodious song

Provides you with an opportunity to understand

Nature's powerful...

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Categories: formative, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Continuous Quality Improvement
"It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual...

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Categories: formative, analogy, beauty, destiny, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Behind the Sins
no one has the saddle over the wild horse by the name fate
Jose as I had known him, had a life twisted by untamed forces
gifted...

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Categories: formative, best friend, friendship, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contenting Tree of Life
Futility of Contention
absorbs into Utility of Contentment.

To preserve wholeness, mutually accommodate;
    yielding preserves whole.
To become straight, you must begin bent;
  ...

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Categories: formative, beauty, creation, culture, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Quiet Heroes
Quiet Heroes

Illustrious, noble, dedicated, proud
with these traits are great heroes endowed
but so many go unsung
fighting the odds as only one.

A single parent kneels down to...

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Categories: formative, addiction, hero, parents, teacher,
Form: Quatrain

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