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Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
...Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranqui......

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Categories: latches, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crying Over Spilled Women
...His bleeding heart
Was flustered from that torn parchment
In their leeching chapter

Pushed aside
As if “friendship” was aggression’s bull
Running through crowded cemeteries
Under quartered, sapphire......

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Categories: latches, feelings, lost, lost love,
Form: Free verse
No Set Future
...As I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.

My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an o......

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Categories: latches, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



She Was Free, At Last
...~
The stones were many, 
though still he climbed, 
dismantling the mortar crusted wall,
leaving rubble in his wake
as he made his way to the top
Breathless, this world beyond 
the ......

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Categories: latches, good night,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye, Dear Friend
...Memories of the good times
Haunts me back to reality
Thoughts of the dreams and promises
Like a gust of wind
Everything gone
In the wake of a new beginning
The past latches on
Feeding on my hu......

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Categories: latches, absence, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
A Running Heart and Soul
...by Michael J Falotico

                                                  curtain covered heart.
                                                 slowly opened to a light.
                        ......

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Categories: latches, on writing and words,
Form: Senryu



New City Street
...New city street

With the wink of an eye
and a shuffle of feet
We wandered about
down a new city street
Where vendors wore blue
with a tangerine sash
In hopes to look good
with n......

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Categories: latches, fun,
Form: Rhyme
My Incubus
...Pounding at the resonant head 
of my chest—he of hunger 
latches his fangs just beneath my jaw—
not to sever silence, but to pummel poison.
Tissue parts with wet reluctance,
he with need more th......

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Categories: latches, anxiety, change, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whitney 2--Pure Gold
...In a field
Lies all our hopes
Ancient case
Filled with pure gold
Opens hard
With old latches
The dreams of a lifetime sits


Whitney 2 Contest
Written September 5th, 2017
Verse
3/4/3/4/3/......

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Categories: latches, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step On Love Street
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The Dilettante Diaries: "The Bumble Bee Big Blue Sky Boston Two Step on Love Street"


She said, "Pffft Bumble Bees Rule, 
No Bees, no World
Shy Little Hearts 
Big power 
freedom wing......

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Categories: latches, fantasy, humorous, imagery, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Darkness
...Too much is on my mind and 
It's haunting me like a bad dream. 
Making it tough to sleep and,
When I'm wake when it's effecting me.
A form of fear that won't let go of me.

I wish I could run a......

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Categories: latches, dark, fear, hurt, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Family History
...I found a colorful, wooden trunk in the
attic today. It was old and gathering dust,
all tucked away.

I knew this old trunk held some history
and it made my heart astatic, and I
lowered the tru......

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Categories: latches, birthday, blue, family, kids,
Form: Rhyme
Patches the Cat
...I came upon a lady with a charming basket
it was full of fur and tiny ribbon latches.
I reached in and pulled out a friend
and I named him patches.

Two greens eyes and a pirate smile
I knew he......

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Categories: latches, best friend, cat, character,
Form: Rhyme
Infected Minds
...Hatred walking tall in the streets 
of the hearts of our 
GENERATIONS
Blood spilled painting the 
ground red
Making the evil not to feel bad 
but as VIPs Phela they now are 
walking on the red......

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Categories: latches, inspirational
Form: ABC
Crows
...The Carrion Crow

Crows abound in the 
neighborhood and around the 
yard. Often in early morning a 
great, noisy caw-fest occurs. 

A carrion crow
sat on an oak, fol de rid-
dle, lol de ridd......

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Categories: latches, animal
Form: Haibun

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry