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Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusive, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Domino Effect
When emotions are
a circle 
          of carefully 
placed d
       ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusive, analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Predator
Take AI’s verses 
    and make them yours,
fake wisdom through 
   generated synonyms,
stolen from 
   the thesaurus of...

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Categories: illusive, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Art of Forgiveness
To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune 
to your illusive m a n t r a...

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Categories: illusive, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Karma
Yesterday, I followed her true invisible form
Colors turning a kaleidoscopic deep and warm

A state of mind, that makes reality feel alive
Stabbing moments that teach how...

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Categories: illusive, bullying, conflict, life, universe,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Featherless Angels
“People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”
- Rumi


He struggles to forget
that little boy anticipating his hero's return.
Staring out...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusive, absence, child, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through Alleys of My Mind
I chase you through the alleys of my mind
Your quickened steps ensure you're out of reach
My tears collect then run much like my feet
You cannot...

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Categories: illusive, longing, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Graceful
"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before...

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Categories: illusive, death, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Last Dream
To shivering seas 
   mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms 
with blue orchids 
   ...

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Categories: illusive, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scratch the Itch
Illustrious 
Phantom
You chase 
My desire 
For satisfaction
As I chase you
Hither and thither
Like the rainbow's end
Always just out of reach
Escalating intensity or just
A trick of the...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusive, beautiful, deep, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Existentialist Asks---What Is Life
What is life?

Euphonies, cacophonies and chromosomal anomalies
intertangled destinies and illusive methodologies 

Occurring in obscure dimensionless time
Millenniums fertilized to create the sublime

Perceived by ideations so pure...

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Categories: illusive, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cherished Blessings
    "Cherished Blessings"



Life has not ended, only changed
and so our lives are rearranged
for one so special now has gone
their spirit, to the...

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Categories: illusive, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why So Afraid
Oh, why must you of love be so afraid?
To hide behind the wall of broken dream
For once your love was callously betrayed
And now you will...

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Categories: illusive, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Circles
Looked at the outside of steel window
Around in the dark, awesome feelings into the mid-night air
What the news was brought in the feelings!

Eyes of the...

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Categories: illusive, deep, father, feelings, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Seagull's Plight
a resilient soul
hoists his drooping wings
dreary but dreamy
soars far
so high
he keeps on searching for his illusive dreams
regardless of the storm and height of mountains
goes through...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illusive, courage, dream, passion, uplifting,
Form: Suzette Prime

Book: Shattered Sighs