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Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: lacking, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Editing of Me
My words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction 

I wanted to resist...

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Categories: lacking, conflict, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Play On Words
Write here, right now. Write now, right here!
Capture the moment while it's near 
and seize the day. You now know how: 
write now, right here;...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lacking, word play, words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Nutcrackers Last Waltz
             
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Categories: lacking, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: lacking, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: lacking, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World Without Poetry
An empty look of sadness
That never bears a smile,
A malnourished mind
Aching to utter its voice,
A baby’s cry missing
The sweet tune of lullaby.

A dark moonless night
Reminiscing...

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Categories: lacking, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Literary Circle
I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona...

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Categories: lacking, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by...

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Categories: lacking, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Bless America
In the courts of sport and entertainment
They have forgotten the scales of justice
Lacking honor for those who gave life and limb
Sacrificing blood, and buried with...

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Categories: lacking, america, basketball, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
The Scent of Your Soul
The scent of your soul
a caramelized breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back into ninth grade
where we sat side by side
Your...

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Categories: lacking, absence, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Home Collaberation With Silent One
Standing in the heart of this city
in awe of spectacular lights illuminating tall buildings.
Millions of strangers rush to and fro.
Who would've thought I would be...

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Categories: lacking, absence, desire, home, longing,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Moon In Pale Depression
Muted evidence proclaimed the subtle oddities of night
   Lunar time should have reached the zenith of its height

No chirping crickets were heard, nor...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lacking, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oneness
Oneness
                   Authored by Chuck Keys

It had no...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lacking, black african american, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Advice
Do not look to me with questioning eyes
For i do not possess the answers you seek 
i cannot taste the bitter sweetness on your tongue,
or...

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Categories: lacking, change, drink, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things