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Premium Member Birth
BIRTH

Once upon a moonlit night
There came a ray of magic light

That shone upon an orphan home
Where two small pumpkins left alone

To thirst and starve to...

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Categories: invented, halloween,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member First Rose of May
How beautiful is what I see today
          peeking from the green
     ...

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Categories: invented, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: invented, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moon, You
you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant,...

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Categories: invented, analogy, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Write Upon My Fancy
“If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”...

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Categories: invented, writing,
Form: Rhyme



A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: invented, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Light Up My Life
You are the light of my world my precious son 
filled my days with happiness and fun. 
Always smiling, never blue 
how quickly you grew....

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Categories: invented, dedication, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Change
A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...

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Categories: invented, age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member "life's Absolute Epigrams" (For 2010)
Christian Love frame

The only need for death to every exist
Was to slay the fictional self
And all the embellishments used to support it

Fear not, Love’s little...

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Categories: invented, inspirational, introspection, loveprayer, love,
Form: Didactic
Written On Hands of Time
I write upon the nimble hands of fleeting time
careful not to leave my musings behind
Sometimes penning with haste and speed
trying not to forget
a relevant word...

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Categories: invented, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Bask In Your Own Glow
I write upon the fluttering pages of your mind, 
My words of hope to make your spirit soar:
Reveal your inner light and charm, 
When dark...

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Categories: invented, encouraging, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To Connie Marcum-Wong
We'll miss your presence, Connie dear
the special kindness you have shown-
and now we're feeling quite alone.

We'll miss your poems, that is clear-
the time you took...

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Categories: invented, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Nirveda
Nirveda (sansk.) - aversion to existence

"The existent there is no cessation". Bhagavat Gita, 2.16



Addicted to existence, I may slain
or, maybe, they may slain me. I...

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Categories: invented, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Abc World's Famous Scientists In History
A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity ...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: invented, cancer, inspirational, me,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Under the Stars - the Compound Word Verse
Under the Stars

The cobalt sky has many eyes;
they're brightest just before sunrise
as starlight.

Sprinkled amidst the indigo
we stop to let the sandman sow
his stardust.

Glittering `cross the...

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Categories: invented, love, romance, stars,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things