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Premium Member Frosted Panes - Re-Post
...When winter paints those frosty ferns on my windowpane
I find myself a little girl up on your lap again
In that old house, where you wove that coloured tapestry
With all the glorious memories of y......

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Categories: indies, girl, life, me, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beausoleil
...We loved the land
We tilled the earth, under sun we toiled
We pledged our souls, to nature’s whim
The King of France none to pleased

We took the sacraments
We held our faith, mournful to fates......

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Categories: indies, history, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
While We Stay Silent
...While we stay silent
The fight is going on.
In Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
The West Indies
And the Lebanon
All over the world
There is a tale to tell
Of some living in paradise
Whilst othe......

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Categories: indies, allusion, black african american,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Havana Syndrome
...
It's not a secret 
sonic weapon 
deployed 
by a hostile
geopolitical power,
it's not a mass 
psychogenic 
illness. 

Its something much 
more mundane,
says the electrical 
and computer ......

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Categories: indies, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Spring Flowers
...Spring Flowers 


Another day she floated by so silently and poetically so graciously
Brightened each day quite magnificently as she held blossoming Begonia's
Captivated and enthralled by what n......

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Categories: indies, appreciation, beauty, flower, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Sir Henry Morgan
...

Come all, sail along with me!
Welcome aboard to a Pirate's Ship of World History
I’ll be your story teller, to you I will relay
All about the great buccaneer named, Sir Henry

Sir He......

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indies, courage, dedication, hero,
Form: Rubaiyat



Reflections By Commodore John Barry
...“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.”  Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaratio......

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Categories: indies, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic
-caribbean Flavor-
...Caribbean Flavor.

~~***~~

Cool Caribbean breeze
Softly whispering your name
Intoxicating.

West Indies waters
Cooling my heated body
Invigorating.

Tall coconut trees
Towering ......

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Categories: indies, beach, beauty, ocean, paradise,
Form: Choka
Premium Member Henry Morgan Pirate of the Caribbean
...Henry Morgan
 Pirate of the Caribbean  


Henry Morgan is my name
Pirating is my fame
My story has been told
There’s only one I claim

1635 was the year of m......

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indies, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Mariner
...To be a mariner.

We set sail for the Indies, our cargo stowed below,
As we leave the port of Liverpool and the woman folk we know.
Our journey will take sometime, and the weather seldom kind,
A......

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Categories: indies, work
Form:
Hello
...HELLO
Hello.. Adele, It,s me
Could you please stop calling me all the time
I don't know about England
But in USA that is a crime

Hello.. Adele 
You're in California dreaming
About us from lo......

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Categories: indies, celebrity, funny, funny love,
Form: Light Verse
Jamaica: Out of Many One People
...Jamaica, I hear you laughing now like a water sprite's
Amplitude of songs. You splash against the shivering light,
Militant, your bold children like stars of distant nights
Awakening to dance arou......

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Categories: indies, political
Form: Acrostic
Mushin
...Mushin Ajina
   Bojiojimi
   Eruobodo, ogongo baba eiye
   Ofigbogbo ara shogun bi olosha
   Gidigbalo dawa omowipe ebi npa omo enikankan
   Iluola ti ki nsekan labo afi kobuyari
   Iluoola bab......

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Categories: indies, dedicationlanguage, language,
Form: Free verse
Oh What a Day
...My New Poem, Raw and Uncut
Oh What a day
Oh What a day when black people stop pray 
Pause and realize where their horizon lay
Where the pastures are green, yet remains unseen,
What a day when we......

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Categories: indies, adventure, allusion, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Henrey Morgan a Storm On the Spanish Main
...Henry Morgan is my name
Being a pirate is my fame

A landlubber wasn't for me
Fortunes were made at sea

From port and starboard cannons roar
Through Spanish ships cannonballs tore

Strike y......

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indies, history,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things