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Premium Member A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...

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Categories: initial, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member You Were Just a Photo
Five years ago, to me, you were just a photo 
I had no idea who you were
Through your words and kindness 
We've become wonderful distant...

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Categories: initial, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: initial, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Small Stain of Blood
an early morning rise,
up the stairs
walk into the bathroom 
in the sink
a small stain of blood.

less than a measure of yesterday 
pulling a baby out...

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Categories: initial, child, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Police # 2
Many (con)-ARTIST are drinking more than the soup
A kidnapping of the mind
Confessions/conspiracy/rounded up in groups
Interrogation on a  prowler /who's words robbed us blind
Corrupting our...

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Categories: initial, dedicationwords, me, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Freedom of Poetry
An appeal of poetry
is its lack of rules...

though not to be loose
as a plucked goose – 

without bare essentials
for flight

struts of logic,
living words
that excite with...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: initial, addiction, blessing, freedom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Love's Bloom
I'd never drawn a breath until we met
          And that one taken at the sight of...

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Categories: initial, dream, passion, soulmate, true
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Senility's Tightrope Collab With Cd
She sits in silence at the end of day
Beside the fire that barely warms the air
Her mind in anguish, threads that tend to fray
Companionless, within...

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Categories: initial, age, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wedding
Wedding Night in Raqqa

Cyclonic violet vision

Etheral and immortal

She swirls her sand baked torso.

Evoking the initial collision of primordial seed,

Swathed in gossamer purple veils,

Writhing to the...

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Categories: initial, adventure, husband, life, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Diary of a Tobacco Chewer-W
“I never travel without my diary,
One should have something sensational to read”

5-4-11: I never knew about the above quote of Wilde
But an event in life...

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Categories: initial, cancer, me,
Form: Free verse
A Murder
Poetry,they will dissect you
ignoring poet's bleeding heart,
a judgement today for you too,
poetry, they will dissect you!
So many knives  to cut you through
a bleeding heart...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: initial, poetry
Form: Triolet
Premium Member You Know You'Re In the Zone When:
When the poem jumps on you, wholly formed,
Needing only you to let it out.
When you lose track of what the other person's saying,
Because your inner...

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Categories: initial, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Princess Love
The girls, 
are growing up,
We forgot about that princess love, 
The waiting for men to cover our broken bodies in their poetry love,
We let go...

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© Merel Vdb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: initial, 11th grade, desire, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Yes.
I have a new lover, the best that I have had in a while; he satisfies my insatiable 
appetite...

anytime ~

day
or 
night;

He is Italian, and he...

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Categories: initial, funny, happiness, imagination, passion,
Form: Light Verse
Unrequited Affection
When often thinking of times past
In accordance to her own place
She recalled a heart broken young woman
With longing her pain to erase

Guys grow fond of...

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Categories: initial, lost love, lovelonging,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs