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Inanimate Thing
At night, a huge creature floats to the surface of the tart ocean to dream into the moonlight, which barely penetrates the sulfur clouds. She...

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Categories: inanimate, death, dream, environment,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Life In Eternity
LIFE IN ETERNITY*


1.

The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in 
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent...

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Categories: inanimate, birth, life, universe,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: inanimate, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bilocation
Acknowledging 
God’s omnipresence accepting
 that he is with us through out our life, 
there must be no misconception, that he is in
total control of our...

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Categories: inanimate, world,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inanimate, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete



You Are
As i sit in my bedroom,exhaulting your name
I can hear the seas roar at the sound of your name. 
How can one not believe that...

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Categories: inanimate, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Melancholic
A disease intrinsic and quiet
infesting a soul which submissively accepts
presenting self inflicting suffering
to the body which covers it.

The record keeper of happiness
loses his work from...

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Categories: inanimate, depression, emotions, sad,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Squirrelly Squirrel
I reckon you'll find this tale of romance less fact than fiction,
But please bear with me as I try to give it plausible depiction.
I was...

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Categories: inanimate, animals, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Calendar
The Calendar                  

A calendar hangs on the wall.
A...

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© Les Pick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inanimate, loneliness, love, wife,
Form: Rhyme
The Doll
10-21-12

Like Sally I sense tragedy’s at hand
For this heart can only sew so much
Until all string is used to the last strand

Hanging dolls staring at...

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Categories: inanimate, angst, confusion, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abort
30 minutes that’s all you got
Just 30 minute to live and to die
You have no experience with anything
Except breathing and seeing
What would you save?
What could...

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Categories: inanimate, baby, birth, death, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Dancer
Dancer
                       Non-conformist
 ...

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Categories: inanimate, beautiful, butterfly, dance, garden,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member Mocking Dance of the Dead
Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Silent One 
"Do not be...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inanimate, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chicks' Day Out in Spring
"Nature is a joy in spring with fresh life and a wonder at other seasons. The myriad animate and inanimate forms living in nature surprise...

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Categories: inanimate, adventure, appreciation, mother, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member STRADIVARIUS
longingly, eyes
look on with lust;
the luster
lavished on
the polished violin -

the Stradivarius
as if
hourglass-shaped.

the sigh of sex
upon
the inanimate,
animated
by man.

the shudder, the gulp
of two bonded
in sin - its...

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Categories: inanimate, music,
Form: Free verse

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