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Premium Member Kindness - POTD
POTD 2 July 2018

Humans are capable of ‘Changing their State’. At times, a stressful, negative fusillade can be encountered from an individual wishing to subvert...

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Categories: individual, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Strange Galaxy
When I gaze into this realm, I see more than the dazzling array
     of golden starbursts floating in a cosmic sea...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: individual, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Days That Brought Me Here
I thought I would go backwards
Into my uncertain
My awkward
The days of my wondering
What will I be when I grow up?
Will I ever grow up?
Is everyone...

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Categories: individual, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Cascading Love

By the breath of God frost is given ...
Hast thou entered into 
the treasures of the snow? ...
Out of whose womb came the ice?
and the...

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Categories: individual, love, snow, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dream
Let there be no hidden or disguised facades
Let there be achievable dreams; not hopeless mirages
Let there be no sorry but sunny days of happy faces
Let...

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Categories: individual, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Climate Change Is No Joke
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.

Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And...

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Categories: individual, earth, environment, fire, pollution,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Don'T Try To Change Me
I don't mind being your friend
Or even possibly loving you
But don't try to change me
I love being me
I have my own voice
We see things differently...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: individual, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Behind the Yellow Door
Looking out at the old oak  tree in my front yard today, I see myself as she is, stripped of all my former beauty...

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Categories: individual, family, house, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: individual, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
Symphony of Worship
Should we desire to imitate our Master, we must diligently study to know His heart.

As an orchestra should desire to play Beethoven with perfection, they...

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Categories: individual, religious,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member - Peace of Mind -
Let the waves carry me to a new destination
  My mind needs peace - this is not an individual epidemic
  The feeling of...

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Categories: individual, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...

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Categories: individual, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh

Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...

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Categories: individual, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh -
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to...

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Categories: individual, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member L. I. F. E. (Living In Fear Everywhere)
L iving 
I n
F ear
E verywhere

Just as we live and just as we die 
We laugh, kill and crucify
We are no more our brothers than...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: individual, death, depression, education, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things