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Feel the Sway - Interpretive
Trifle the thoughts living on a breeze
hearts darken twist a loving soul
eased down an anchored way
can't you feel the sway

Oh mother, hear my calls
muttered in...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: interpretive, absence, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Interpretive New Year
On this night 
We have in sight 
A new year filled with intellectual challenging delight 
Just open a book 
And take a look 
There may...

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Categories: interpretive, america, books, image, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Passion
Melodic passion, lilting harmonies lull my slender fingers, 
when I play with the stringed keyboard, I sink into the  mellifluous music, can feel the...

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Categories: interpretive, appreciation, art, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Lyric
My Mistress
What is death if not supreme silence,
Have you ever craved the silk of a quiescent moment?
When the constant barrage of noise around you becomes abhorrent,
And...

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Categories: interpretive, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
I'M Waking
Waves from the past at last hit me,
the people envisioned seem suddenly with me. 
As where they'll be when im gone from this world, 
til...

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Categories: interpretive, art, growing up, happiness,
Form: Light Verse



Inferno Yawn
rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: interpretive, beauty, desire, dream, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Yes,I Have a Passion For Dance
The music,
The touching,
The after.

All the types
    from Folk to Polka,
            Tango,...

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© Wm Paul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: interpretive, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
Splendour Comparative
Twins, entrapped in purity of essence,
The woman and the vista;
She, for all the world, is real,
The other cast interpretive.
Models of implicit quintessence,
The painting and the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: interpretive, allegory, art, love, passion,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Inkwell of Traipsing Thoughts
Lithesome lines of rapturous rhymes and torrid truths,
Written with piteous pleas and tantalized tease;
Left to others' wits to be interpretive sleuths
Of our loves, lusts, confessional...

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Categories: interpretive, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Edgar's Final Poetic Stanza
Once there was an average Joe  

You may know  

Named Poe  

Having a soul stirring heart  

To start  

He did...

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Categories: interpretive, addiction, america, fear, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections From a Eudaimonic
A human race of relay and replay,
Their soles push off unforgiving exteriors
And are kept on track by applauded obedience.
Their recurrently blistered hearts
Become calloused by an...

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Categories: interpretive, addiction, change, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Dream
BROKEN DREAM

At any time in your life, did your dream of whom
you wanted to be when you grow up came true?
Or it did not and...

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Categories: interpretive, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fictional Poetic Thoughts
Writing fiction 
Has no restriction
Unlike the journal writer on the list 
Asking ‘what is this’ 
Raising their fist 
Not allowing anything to be missed 
Dependent...

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Categories: interpretive, adventure, america, feelings, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Wheel On a Stick Part 7
The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element 
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing

Unforgotten Lacerations 

A pataphysical circus of visual elements,...

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Categories: interpretive, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Stranded Courtesy Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
Stranded courtesy bittercold without food or drink

Dire straits necessitated
yours truly to bethink
outside the box (literally outdoors
of squarish structured nested dwelling),
where blinding albedo effect
forced me to...

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Categories: interpretive, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs