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Premium Member The Ringing Sea
 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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Categories: impactful, appreciation, beach, blue, character,
Form: Personification



Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a...

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Categories: impactful, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
A Lonely Voyage
Five years was their prediction of my lifespan.
Approaching forty-five,
I have a lot to show and less to say.

Photography was never my thing
But I have the...

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© Nakul Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impactful, encouraging, farewell, flying, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intricacy of Light
My inner voice calm, looks for compassion.
   To give encouragement, it comes from within.
I look for honesty as my eyes turn inside-out.
 ...

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Categories: impactful, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trophy of Words
Momentous meteor shower of words
Plethora of metered color absurd
Rainbows falling to the ground
With syllable shakes and bobo refrains
Lamentable lemon sunsets of pain

Our God stuns with...

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Categories: impactful, god, words, writing,
Form: Verse



The Whisper of Love
The whisper of the waves
speaks to me
its gentle voice is subtle
yet strong
impactful

It reminds me of the night we met
      ...

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Categories: impactful, love, memory, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Door Unlocked, Please Close Behind You
The church door was unlocked
So I went inside
Many pews had spider web barriers in place
Yet the linen was clean and ironed
Dates of mass clearly on...

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Categories: impactful, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Sidewalk
The pavement
A wonderment comes to mind of this naming of this stand on concrete;
slow paced concrete, hurry start, give me a chance for a chase...

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Categories: impactful, introspection, life, words, heart,
Form: Blank verse
Weightlifting
My journey beginning weightlifting commenced on a warm spring day, when I was of the ripe age of 14. I had no idea the extreme...

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Categories: impactful, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mastering the Language That Only the Poet Understands
Music makes one dance,
and the dancer expresses
the mood of its sound;
poetry makes one recite
verses that are lively or dark...
it's the state of the moment,
that voice...

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Categories: impactful, art, growth, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics
and spoils of Western Civilization.

Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and muscles
appreciate...

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Categories: impactful, adventure, earth, green, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Friendship: Just Like a Palm Tree
Friendship: Just Like a Palm Tree 


By Izunna Okafor


From the crusts of lonely loams
It gently roots inner and outer
And softly pullulates harder and taller
To register...

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Categories: impactful, 8th grade, best friend,
Form: Epic
Cup of Tea
Childhood memories
Brief - impactful moments in our lives
Profound neurological occurrences
Strongly anchored in our subconscious mind

Like an iceberg in the deep blue ocean
Immersed are the feelings...

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Categories: impactful, allegory, analogy, motivation, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ecogovernance Notes
Give as you can co-invest green,
Receive as you need,
Be all we are cooperatively becoming.

A deep root chakra foundation
of healthy polycultural life,
positive/negative mind-embodied
consilient unstrifed life
is far...

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Categories: impactful, culture, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Facades Fading In the Mirror
Artifice-cultivation 
Cracking pitches, up at bat
Impactful, this journey to fame
Reacting, claims to my own name
Control, my poison cup

So let go as follows
untying the knot
Wading through...

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Categories: impactful, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

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