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Premium Member A Lesson In Love
"How to tame the madness"

As I sit here, with intense dirty desire,
Tonight I think of you (the moon and stars)
To you, I send a redolent...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lesson, fantasy, love, passion, romantic,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Today I Learn To Be a Widow, Lesson 1
lesson one

i wake up alone
for the first time
the silence is deafening

i want to get up
but every fiber in me
is dead weight

i want to call my...

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Categories: lesson, death, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: lesson, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Yellow Shoes In the Darkness
Walking through the land of shadows 
wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step
I created color and hues

The shadows started retreating
As color permeated the ground
Out...

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Categories: lesson, me, metaphor, places, yellow,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Devils Deadly Dime
Devils deadly dime

The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I...

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Categories: lesson, abuse, day, irony, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Please
~PLEASE~
 
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
 
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song! 
Don't worry mommy,...

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Categories: lesson, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Do Not Grieve Your Muse
(For My Younger Self)



You have forgotten your muse.
You neglected her, in the hustle and bustle
of city life, in trying to carve a niche,
driving yourself too...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lesson, introspection, life, poetry, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gifts of the Fourth Chakra
Wild spirit -
I cherished you tender 
within my halo of prana;
careful not to hurt you
as I worked to set you free
using hands of peace
in harmony...

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Categories: lesson, forgiveness, freedom, growth, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between the Words of My Father
I tried my best 
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?

I wonder
Now that you...

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Categories: lesson, farewell, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pretty Poet
Where Have All The Pretty Poets Gone? 

A real poet are you, charismatic over everything you serve
Showcasing, a rainbow that folds the perfect worldwide perspective
I'm...

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Categories: lesson, angel, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Love
.           True love 

I love the way you make me love you
Love the way you...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lesson, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, loveme, heart,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Silent Echoes of Her Tongue
It's always those who reside in our hearts,
whose words, like lightning,
electrocute our soul,

and in each pain there is a lesson.

Her life was like a room...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lesson, death, loss, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Benefits

It was in the sorrow
That I learned to empathize and care
It was in the darkness
That my heart spoke the best prayers
It was in the silence
That...

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Categories: lesson, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lesson, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Stoic's Chlorophyll Corona
Sonnet I

In realms of emerald hush, where sunlight strains
Through veils of green, a silent throng takes root,
A clovered congregation on the plains,
Their stoic forms a...

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Categories: lesson, feelings, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Book: Shattered Sighs