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Premium Member If God Gives Me Tomorrow
If God gives me tomorrow
I'll try to stop crying
unlike this dark night
where I fear that I'm dying

If He gives me tomorrow
I'll let go of today
I'll...

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Categories: gives, faith, inspirational, prayer,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: gives, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: gives, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: gives, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love One Another
“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
     ...

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Categories: gives, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Swan Ballerina Pages
Like delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.

But what are ballerinas with...

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Categories: gives, poetess, poetry,
Form: Personification
Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: gives, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: gives, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: gives, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
One Silent Word
He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us: 
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound...

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Categories: gives, how i feel, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revelation In the Rain
She briskly walks in January’s rain,
which drums the endless rhythm of her pain,
pulling closer round her shoulder in the downpour
the leather jacket he so often...

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Categories: gives, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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Categories: gives, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member African Anthology
walking gracefully  
with a pendulum movement ~
a herd of giraffes   

the mass migration
crocodiles at the river~
food for the taking

gazelles are running ...

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Categories: gives, africa, animal, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The World As Seen Through a Poet's Pen
A bright array of rainbow hues
      adorns the parchment now and then,
   and gives a glimpse of writer’s...

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Categories: gives, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As Time Slips By
                 
 Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as...

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Categories: gives, faith, love, time,
Form: Dizain

Book: Shattered Sighs