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Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: get a handle on this, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stardust Road
“Stardust Road.”

"Soft defense is driven by my thoughts,
I vanish away into yesterday’s scenic road,
Set the mood among the dark clouds,
Wish I could go back to...

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Categories: get a handle on this, adventure, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: get a handle on this, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: get a handle on this, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the...

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Categories: get a handle on this, passion, universe,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Clerihew Soup
I tell you I like, that Wayland a bunch
He'd be the guy, to be there in a crunch
Not afraid of humor, he paves the way
With...

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Categories: get a handle on this, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 3
"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for a cookie expecting to be told it would spoil her dinner
I...

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Categories: get a handle on this, beauty, poetry,
Form: Epic
Would You Still Love Me If I Wasn'T a Poet?
Would you still love me
If I wasn't a poet?
If  I was not
a climbing jasmine
 on your window-sill,
a rose-bud in bloom,
the soft zephyr breeze
on an...

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Categories: get a handle on this, fantasy, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member End Times
As the gold leaves on the ginkgo fall,
Upon the cold autumn earth.
I think how the winter winds
Sound, as they whip as if in mirth.

Winter is...

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Categories: get a handle on this, death, life,
Form: Other
Premium Member Everyday Is Beautiful
Everyday is beautiful, son,
and no that's not being optimistic.
You're here - you're alive - with one more day on your plate.
That's just being realistic.

Tuesdays are...

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Categories: get a handle on this, appreciation, cheer up, children,
Form: Carpe Diem
No Greater Love
For God so loved this sinful world, He gave us all His son;
That we might live with Him one day, when life on Earth is...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: get a handle on this, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Untying of a Love Knot
When I used to dream
I used to dream about him
Fantasizing about how it happened and how it could have been
Demons, chasing Nightmares, Happiness on Poles
Tied...

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Categories: get a handle on this, lost love, me,
Form: Bio
Premium Member My Long Walk Home
T'was freezing cold and I struggled in the heat
I was pleased I'd put warm gloves on my feet
I shouldn't have been out on such a...

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Categories: get a handle on this, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imbedded In Pages
I picked up my tube of super glue
In hopes of piecing together
Sad lonely broken you
As I sifted through the bits
I wasn't sure what to do
Although...

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Categories: get a handle on this, character, heartbroken, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Me Like You Mean It
See me; don’t just look at me.
Gaze into my warmth. . .adoringly.
Don’t utter words when the eyes can say so much.
Trace my face with your...

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Categories: get a handle on this, romance,
Form: Rhyme

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