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Premium Member Love's Chemical Derivatives
Can  love then,  be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...

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Categories: index, love, science,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Elegant Dance
Rhythmic pose arcs lifting elegant ambience
Graceful dance enshrines artful renascence
Visceral posture invites emotional response
Festive celebration of aesthetic renaissance.

Attired in red and blue of simple elegance...

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Categories: index, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Voice In the Wilderness
Suitcase in hand, a face polarized against
the frosted window pane, searching verily
for continuity of a life that knew no restraint.
Someone’s Grandfather a considerate Uncle,
life’s situation...

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Categories: index, age, old,
Form: Free verse
French Bread
French Bread
	
	
	Your index finger 
	draws figure-eights 
	in the dusting of flour 
	on the counter top 
	where you lean
	quite casually, 
	watching as I make 
	a loaf...

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Categories: index, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Rodin - New Icon
RODIN’S NEW ICON

Should Rodin live today would he be inspired
To sculpt a marble sequel to THE THINKER
Modern ethos means fresh image is required
To become an...

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Categories: index, allusion, creation, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Picasso Blues
"Picasso Blues"



Blue Sky
met
Blue Feather 
on a 
Blue Day
Collaborating
a slow dance
across the 
lost dance floor 
crowded
with more 
than a thousand 
hidden
keys to truth
ignoring  
a thousand
poker...

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Categories: index, blue, poets, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Daily Dewdrops
Quote:  Every day is a page to write a new story.


DAILY DEWDROPS 

Freshly fallen snow,
no print left yet.
An empty box,
with no pretty bow.

I get...

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Categories: index, emotions, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh, But Your Hand
There

Your hand
That exquisite, sexy little hand
I reach, oh so slowly
My index finger extended lazily

But with enigmatic intent and subtle grace
(Like Michelangelo's Adam on the Sistine...

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Categories: index, appreciation, body, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
A Goodbye Lie
Dark chocolate eyes bore into me,
Beseeching, brimming, tunneling for truth.
A single tear trails silently
Cascading o’er lifted cheekbones so
Perfectly angled they’re matchless
Throughout nature’s beauty scheme.
Exquisite, ethereal...

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Categories: index, abuse, betrayal, character, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashes Fall From the Joss Stick: Finger Bone
My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our...

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Categories: index, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Rapture You Roughly -
She pleaded to me with a blushed body,
ready readily for the holiday my maintinance could muster for her pink engine,
the electricity my overtime bedtime love...

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Categories: index, dream,
Form: Romanticism
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 7
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 7

Janushirasana – Knee- Head Pose  

In praise of Janushirasana


There are many Asanas 
And postures in Yoga
Full of...

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Categories: index, art, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and...

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Categories: index, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Daft From Bath
You look stupid in videos on phones at the start,
you don't look like "Badmans" calling women a tart,
when I see those skits I think what...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: index, england, funny, giggle, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Idyll
(Base USO club, Zweibrucken, Germany, 1963)

Of a lazy afternoon, I sit
     propped up,
Bones aching, sorely tired from
    ...

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Categories: index, absence, angst, anxiety, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs