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Premium Member My Foolish Heart
What kind of foolish heart would let you slip from grasp?
In a land of ten-thousand fools, I would be the king of them
I will now...

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Categories: lapsed, longing, lost love, relationship,
Form: Pantoum



Gilded Life
Lost in a labyrinth of
Glistening sights
Infinitely out of reach,
Trembling amidst sweeping mistrals, 
Fabricating a life of nostalgic allusions,
Caught in lapsed reveries, of 
Restless arias and...

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Categories: lapsed, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Springtime, Camped Between the Mountain Valleys
Springtime, camped between the mountain valleys.
Air filled with tickled laughter ventured through
canopy of leaves bathed a golden hue; 
labyrinth fields sun's freedom to rally.
An owl...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lapsed, mountains, nature, night, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Langue D'Oc, a Micro-Paradelle
Your love song lapsed into ancient French that April day.
I only understood the words of spring and heartsore
lapsed. Only love and heartsore, I understood your...

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Categories: lapsed, loss, love, music, words,
Form: Verse
The Ol' Barn
There was a barn once painted red
that stood on grandpa's old homestead.
T'was built so very long ago -
a sorry sight. I told him so.

I often,...

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Categories: lapsed, character, freedom, political, remember,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member She
^she_

^she_  had a love/hate relationship with food
she only fed with her eyes,
i was a sparkless firecracker 
and spoke English like i hated it.

not the...

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Categories: lapsed, body,
Form: Free verse
You Are the Universe, Not Just Stardust Darling Slaves
food, god, and the universe as you
You are the universe (I insist and will prove it)
So say grace before you eat ...
You agree we are...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lapsed, analogy, appreciation, philosophy, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Search In Life
Searching, but never found
Chained and bound
Held back 
looking for what life lacks
At my fingertips grasp
But alas my life has lapsed

9-15-23...

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Categories: lapsed, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bad Friday
Friday morning 
I hopped out of the shower, 
popped over to the lavatory counter, 
flopped my most profound sexual characteristic 
down and onto a misplaced...

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Categories: lapsed, funny, me, metaphor, me,
Form: Free verse
What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About
Hmm...What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About...

Today (a rather brisk, chilly,
and otherwise sat
tiss factory twirly delightful
December 18th, 2018) matte
her of fact quite
refreshing noontime, while...

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Categories: lapsed, abuse, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto Xiv
Because the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.

Then we finally reached...

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Categories: lapsed, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Love In a Far Off Place- For Contest
We'd made a dawn start that day, following in his footsteps, as
apparently Jesus used to get up early.
Our group had gathered for a reading, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lapsed, love,
Form: Free verse
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the Sea
This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery...

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Categories: lapsed, death, french, grave, obituary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superior Courts of Ecological Justice
What evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits, 
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?

What are financially...

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Categories: lapsed, culture, earth, health, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Memoir of An African-American Man, Mother
Mother
                     —Statue of Ebony Black—

A...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lapsed, abuse, africa, evil, slavery,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs