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A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night

A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of...

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Categories: illumines, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



I Didn'T Answer, I Didn'T Need To
I didn’t answer, I didn’t need to

How did this happen,
amidst words, phrases,
stones skipped on poetic ponds
Not looking for or expecting
a touch to the heart, a...

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Categories: illumines, love,
Form: Free verse
A Fairy Named Twinkle
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Find here a poem read throughout the ages,
passed down from elders to youngsters below
A mystical rhyme with a fairy tale ending
that maybe is true but...

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Categories: illumines, fairy, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Dawning Desires - Repost
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Whispering apricot beams shine upon frilly sheers,
lazy shadows dance in daffodil dawn colors,
pirouettes of pleasured moments,
silently flowing on smooth brush stroke walls

You breathe, softly, the...

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Categories: illumines, morning, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memorial Day
A street lamp illumines our rain soaked flag
as soft filtered shades of red white and blue
try to let sparkles of light glisten through.
Peace fills the...

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Categories: illumines, holiday, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Journey To the Unseen
Journey To The Unseen 

 
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Categories: illumines, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Fatal Attraction
FATAL ATTRACTION
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His lucent light illumines her eyes
His face outshines the sun
His ethereal beauty unveils the skies
Her vibrant vision swiftly succumbs

Her silenced tongue, his intimate touch
His...

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Categories: illumines, allegory, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Moon Glow
Moon glow illumines 
      opaque clouds tonight.
I see a specter there 
     with long white hair
She...

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Categories: illumines, moon,
Form: Free verse
Bound By the Melody of the Sea
Melodious tides serenade along a foam dipped coast line,
we drift as a single composed symphony,
seduced by a pounding surf, its sensuous rhythm pulsates
flooding our hearts,...

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Categories: illumines, love, ocean, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Dawning Desires
Dawning Desires


Whispering apricot beams shine upon frilly sheers,
lazy shadows dance in daffodil dawn colors,
pirouettes of pleasured moments,
silently flowing on smooth brush stroke walls 

You breathe,...

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Categories: illumines, good morning, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Hands
A man’s chilled hands
In the depths of darkness...
Candle is shining
She approaches him, warming him up inside by holding him close to her. She tells him,...

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Categories: illumines, life, love, relationship, winter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Daily Victory In the Lord
Midst Monday bouts in work arena
knocking body with fatigue angst…
God’s victory* strengthens my faith to keep pressing on.

Though Tuesday schedule seems to fail
frustrating mind against...

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Categories: illumines, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Tristich
September's Winding Road
There is on a green hill, a winding road, 
Where September golden rods are blooming, 
Even the sandy path bears reflections 
A line of fence...

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Categories: illumines, nostalgia, school,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Life
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" -- William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a life
bereft of joy by reason’s cloud
to sling invective like a scythe
from perched...

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Categories: illumines, crush, forgiveness, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadow
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                   /  | ...

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Categories: illumines, life, light,
Form: Shape

Book: Shattered Sighs