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Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: gay, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Prejudice
I hate 
your brownness 
your whiteness, 
your blackness
your freeness
I don’t care about niceness
I’m more partial to meanness 
 
I’m all the things bad
ugly and cruel
my...

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Categories: gay, character, prejudice,
Form: Personification
Premium Member We the People
We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty

We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists...

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Categories: gay, discrimination, freedom, history, society,
Form: Political Verse
Don'T Skip a Beat
Love
knows
no age 
or beauty
Love
knows
no  rich 
or  poor
Love
knows
no religion
or race
Love
knows
no straight
or gay
Love 
knows
no boundary
or reason
Love
knows
no distance
or time
Love
knows only
the rapid beating
of a giving heart sublime...

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Categories: gay, beauty,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Whilst Walking Through the Woods
Whilst walking through the woods one day
A crystal brook there, shone so gay
The sun was shining oh' so bright
As brook reflected all it's light

Buzzing insects...

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Categories: gay, animal, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Amid the Jagged Shadows
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

                                Samuel Taylor...

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Categories: gay, blue, granddaughter, loneliness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Anxieties of a Widow
May stretched its legs into grave.
The thunder heralds the rains.
A hut on the bank of Kanoli canal
Is not re-thatched this year.
Her infant’s illness made the...

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Categories: gay, inspirationalrain, rain,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Poetry Cake
()        ()
A         L
N       ...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gay, celebrity, happy birthday,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Letters From Paris
I wrote a letter
With teardrops from my heart
I walk the streets of Antoinette
My mind dances with Baudelaire
Love flutters as the pigeon’s wings on statues
I see...

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Categories: gay, absence, angst, introspection, paris,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ode To the Hummingbird
I

An ode to the courageous hummingbird
The tiniest bird, but bravest of all
He flits about without saying a word,
When most unexpected he comes to call
Fluttering gossamer...

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Categories: gay, bird, nature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Oops - Please Join In the Collaboration
Sue dated an old bloke called Darren
He said surgery'd made him barren
But one errant sperm
Escaped from his ‘worm’
Now Sue’s had a baby named Sharon!

05~24~17

WRITTEN BY...

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Categories: gay, baby, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Love Game
I'm the bloke she never had,
she's the girl I never knew,
when I met her she was sad,
broken up without a clue.

We've talked of her past...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gay, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onslaught
#One should be cautious in starting a war, but 
once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly#

     #Quote by Hirohito circa...

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Categories: gay, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Star Witness Potd
While we walked home from the movies, one moonlit starry night,
My friends and I talked and laughed, enjoying summer's delights.

The streets were quite silent, as...

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Categories: gay, creation, fantasy, friendship, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Tolerance
The word
The idea
The wall that separates
Disguised in honorable robes
Preached to children
"Tolerance" 

Am I to be tolerated?
Just because I am different
Black, white, brown or yellow
Straight or...

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Categories: gay, discrimination, future,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs