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Premium Member Unwelcome Guest
Time marched ahead relentlessly,
While I was unaware.
I jogged around the corner and
Old age was waiting there.

I didn't want to meet her,
But had to be polite.
She...

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Categories: guest, age,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Interview with the Wind
“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius

“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr. 
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for...

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Categories: guest, wind,
Form: Personification
Unseen Rainbow
I've never ever seen her face, 
but in my mind, she's the color of love
Black
strong like dark coffee
She wakes you up early in the morning,
gives...

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Categories: guest, allusion, beauty, love, rainbow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One
Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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Categories: guest, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Wondrous Song
 From out my window, I could see the creek
Its ice, a satin ribbon on the snow
Our winter holiday was just one week
Each day with...

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Categories: guest, winter,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Cobwebs - Season of Death
Sometimes life is the tragedy
of a fly, caught in a cobweb -
awaiting its fate.

It's happening again,
a child of summer misplaced
in the dawn of autumn's anguish....

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guest, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tribute To Leonora G
~ Yolanda was--her name ~    Featuring:) Leonora Galinta

From a hell storm,
A mighty she-devil took on its form
Like a woman scorn ascending from...

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Categories: guest, death, deep, evil, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Sonnet For Spring
As days grow longer, melancholy creeps
An uninvited guest, which winter brings
It dims the candle my mind tightly clings
Consuming light, from darkness whence he leaps

In doldrums...

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Categories: guest, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Adrift On An Amber Sea
In quest to find respite and solitude
I drift on the light of an amber sea
It's there I pray in words of gratitude
for a life that's...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guest, peace, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a collaboration with Susan Ashley


Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for...

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Categories: guest, art, creation, destiny, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Bloom
You wonder why, my love
These memories flitter in the hallways of my mind
Knocking on the door
of every room
Where I’ve hung
Do not Disturb Signs
For I don’t...

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Categories: guest, flower, sensual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Sage of Glasgow
 ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~

When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no...

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Categories: guest, friendship, travel, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Unhappy Hostess
Come into my house, 
Sit anywhere you like. 

No, not at my table, 
No, not on my chair. 
Come into my house,
Sit anywhere.

I invited you,...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guest, anti bullying, appreciation, cancer,
Form: Free verse
A Passing Shadow
Behind our house, below the deck
with its pleasing benches and sylvan view,
the back yard we have descends steeply
to a little stream called Chimacum Creek.

It is...

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Categories: guest, pets,
Form: Free verse
Blue Egg Mommy
Blue Egg Mommy

You know it’s spring when she sings.
The first to show as day greets “Hello”

Her morning song so beautiful and strong.
Soon preoccupied all day...

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Categories: guest, bird, earth, friend, love,
Form: Rhyme

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