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Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: harder, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thirsty Love
As a young boy
    I watch with interest the small man
   Wolf Hunter - a wise father of the hunt


He...

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Categories: harder, love, lust,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harder, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holding Back the Time
In visions of yesteryear where there was love
Nothing but despair on the faces of hope
And shattered remains of a romantic fairytale
Whose happy ending has been...

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Categories: harder, lost love, sensual,
Form: Verse
Hoping That It Might Be You
Hoping that it might be you

Verse 1

I've got some troubles in my life...
I'll help with yours, will you, help with mine?
"Cause I need love like...

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Categories: harder, friendship love, hope, longing,
Form: Lyric



Tears of a Hero
Tears of a hero

Tears of a hero, they say I supposed to be a tough guy..So I can’t let the tears show.

But with these feelings...

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Categories: harder, emotions, inspirational, sad,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Unattended Field
“Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harder, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Other
Premium Member Blind Man Turns
"Blind Man Turns"



Rest easy in my lull, Love

Love 
is not the gentle goodnight, Love

in the beguiling
silence of Lost Lovers' Woods

It is the war we 
all...

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Categories: harder, love,
Form: Free verse
Dreaming With Butterflies
FLUTTER BY                       ...

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Categories: harder, butterfly, nature, nostalgia, seasons,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Finally
Finally 

Doctor, it's been 7 months 
The MEDs aren't kicking in

My dreams are getting stronger, 
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and...

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Categories: harder, dark, deep, evil, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Whisper On the Wind
I was a gentle whisper upon the wind

That swept over the green valleys

I climbed the height of the highest mountain

And murmured softly as I descended...

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Categories: harder, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Small Stain of Blood
an early morning rise,
up the stairs
walk into the bathroom 
in the sink
a small stain of blood.

less than a measure of yesterday 
pulling a baby out...

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Categories: harder, child, drug,
Form: Free verse
We Worked Long Enough
I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them...

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Categories: harder, slavery, society, truth, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...

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Categories: harder, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Wondered
Last night I lay in the darkness of my room 
like i always do 
Me, a dim lamplight and thoughts of you 
my only companions...

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Categories: harder, dream, love,
Form: Free verse

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