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Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: fresh, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?



Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: fresh, brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...

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Categories: fresh, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Where the White Rose Blooms
The single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...

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Categories: fresh, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: fresh, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Ice Cream
''Like Ice Cream''

Having ice cream with you, 
Brightens the entire portrait in my youth.
Like catnip for a cat 
-- the     Reese's...

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Categories: fresh, boyfriend, fun, happiness, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
ONE WORD~

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my veins,
               ...

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Categories: fresh, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Of Ink
Partial Paper
 -A poet in heat-

Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...

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Categories: fresh, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: fresh, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waterfall of Shadows
I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending 
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh...

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Categories: fresh, eve,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise

Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.

Haloed in hazy...

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Categories: fresh, memory, morning, summer,
Form: Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: fresh, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In November
In November I write of winter
  for I am weary of the old year and tired bones
I visualize all hardships blanketed with fresh snowfall
geese...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fresh, november, poetry, seasons, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Age of Poet Destroyer
A diamond in the Frost ... I am Emily, gazing through the years, 
Like Poe from rancid taste and dark smoke shadows
Florescent waste escaping a...

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Categories: fresh, community, pride, princess, strength,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Kaleidoscope Eyes
Round and round I go 
Unfolding my spirit of envy and gold
The nascence of a new stone
Hazel room, vibrant lilac sky, 
Deep orange haze in...

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Categories: fresh, beauty, color, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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