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Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: instances, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...

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Categories: instances, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids, ...

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Categories: instances, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When I Love Thee
 I LOVE THEE
I am no voluptuous beauty nor do I live a life of purity
I can only say: I love wholeheartedly with all I...

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Categories: instances, absence, analogy, care, character,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Hymn To Unhappiness
Oh, unhappiness,

you relentless tormentor of my heart and mind,

forgive me for I have never thought to thank you for

your presence in my life

but

I have just...

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Categories: instances, happiness, pain, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cost of the Creative
oh, yes ...

yes, I have ...
I've had them ... those moments
the deep, desperate, rare moments ...
"straight-from-a-movie" moments
of romance and melancholy

where the violins and violas and
cellos...

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Categories: instances, appreciation, art, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty and Hope
When the news is hard to handle and it’s difficult to cope
We like to take a long walk…and rediscover hope.

Today’s walk was along the shoreline...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instances, hope,
Form: Rhyme
No Free Lunch
A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instances, irony, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kinetic Visuals

Aiming for a perfect range, I click 
in strobe-like effect, feeling the pumping
sensation in the blood: the twitch on my
hands peaks until the frames connect...

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Categories: instances, adventure, art,
Form: Free verse
I Am Able
I am able never accepted the word disabled
Out casted and trampled on by the one who gave me shelter for nine months
A victim of circumstances...

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Categories: instances, faith, brother, brother, me,
Form: I do not know?
Transition To Death - Part I
Visions of a life unseen,
Moments that vanish before thee,
Life progresses and I'm left behind,
Death a transition of life foreseen.

Today you're here,
Tomorrow never seems to be,
Instances...

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Categories: instances, absence, anger, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'white Privilege' Does Exist
Abandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to...

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Categories: instances, discrimination, racism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Moment
I find myself in this moment, reflecting on many instances -
          ones that brought great joy...

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Categories: instances, appreciation, life, time, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Welkin - and - the Influences
1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small...

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Categories: instances, analogy, nature,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Dissecting the Declaration 2
Herein lies the identity of their enemy
Herein lies the description of the abuses
Herein lies the claims against their tyrant
Herein lies the picture of their fixed...

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Categories: instances, america, celebration, july,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs