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Premium Member My Winter
You entered my room
a long time ago
across many summers,
now when this winter looks
at the trees shedding the leaves
you are by the closed window
leaning on the...

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Categories: inert, inspirational, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Listless As a Lazy River
I’m listless as a lazy river
barely lapping at the shore.
I wanted once to find the ocean,
but I don’t care any more.

Would I even make a...

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Categories: inert, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Winter
You entered my room a long time ago
across the dry landscape of many summers 
now when this winter looms over the trees 
shedding the wilted...

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Categories: inert, love, passion, winter,
Form: Free verse
No Not Me - Penned By Maurice Yvonne and Seren
No Not Me 


Did you think when I left 
I'd never answer my phone, 
ignore your messages, 
never speak to you again? 

Did you think...

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Categories: inert, friendship,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Am
Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I...

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Categories: inert, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse



Mountains of My Country
Just drop once, when you happen to go by.

A tale they may count, mountains of my country;
Of paradise invaded and forests destroyed,
Of vessels adrift and...

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Categories: inert, appreciation, best friend, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Purveyor of Ecstasy
Miles in a coaster, a day and hours elapsed, 
Felt the utmost relief when the whirling wheels halted; 
So weary and dizzy, even a smile...

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Categories: inert, appreciation, beauty, education, environment,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Swamp Life: Human Nature Contest
Swamps are like places where dinosaurs roam  
shadowed by ancient moss-draped trees.        
A prehistoric world in shades...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inert, life, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member An Existential Curiosity
Human ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer the arduous, unknown~ 
Resistant to understanding,...

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Categories: inert, endurance, inspiration, science, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Oldest Crime
Daggled and bloodied, the young man lay upon the ground where he’d been 
left.. .left by vile men who, spurred by senseless hate and ravenous...

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Categories: inert, death
Form: Prose Poetry
A Childs Letters
when all is a tangle of alphabet
voiceless, unwound and looming
what bits of sky shall we replace
falling into place like forgotten speech
puzzles of the mind

the deepest...

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Categories: inert, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Panta Rei,Ouden Menei
We are but fleeting shadows
Upon the face of this earth
So solid,so tangible ,yet so ready
To slip through the hands of life
When we doff our mortal...

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Categories: inert, meaningful, nonsense, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deliverance ---
over there..>
lost time leaking away

collapse not into temptation
grant me/us peaceful solitude 
deliver us/me from erratum
inert/confined/lost
entangled in a weary knot
buried in dusty debris
suffocated by icy cobwebs
burned...

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Categories: inert, dark, deep, depression, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Toyland Battles
The child, now sleeping, loudly snores.
The nightlight shines there on the wall.
If you could peer under the door,
The sight awaiting would enthrall:
It seems the toys...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inert, dream, war,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Braving the Stillness


Radiating waves of thoughts unseen,
the battle gallant rages 
in sub-hematoma nether places
An invisible clash against dark principalities
from the shadow realm,
the stricken valiant breathe
with unconscious, godly...

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Categories: inert, bereavement, dedication, love, spiritual,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs