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Premium Member Magic Words the Libertine Called Passion
The libertine flails his torches
Burning staffs in his hands aglow
Golden sparks from the kindle beseech you
To dance on flames that he throws
For he is a...

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Categories: libertine, lovedance, dance, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dark Libertine
Tattered clobbered thoughts streaming to winged dusts,
spiral spasms tremble amid weary sounds.
The festal moods swing dreary interludes,
visions ache release with defloration--

throaty cries heightens the greedy...

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Categories: libertine, dark, death, desire, imagery,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member falling like leaves -
oh, how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
my heart with reprieves - the redolent
       leaves
remembrance of romance with...

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Categories: libertine, autumn, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scars Left Behind
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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Categories: libertine, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blue Carnal
"Blue Carnal"



Libertine take your time
unlace the chords of 
the corset of my mind
cerebral you take me 
walking barefoot towards you
like your welcomed stalker
through your windows
twin...

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Categories: libertine, blue, desire, fire, for
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Black Molasses
"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like molten glucose 
shot into the veins
of Mother Earth...

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Categories: libertine, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between the Pillars of Black and White
"Between the Pillars of Black and White"



You sit alone in your power
between the pillars of 
black and white
holding your book in hand

The words are your...

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Categories: libertine, love, magic, romance,
Form: Romanticism
A Father's Love
You grieved his soul when you stormed out that day;
Such vitriol re-echoed in your wake.
To spurn a father’s love and walk away
Was more than his...

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Categories: libertine, betrayal, death, father, forgiveness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Swear
well … you were there - you saw it all
          you witnessed while I tried to...

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Categories: libertine, analogy, beauty, longing, lost
Form: Rhyme
Old Fogies: Part Ii
But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and...

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Categories: libertine, age, community, crazy, humor,
Form: Free verse
I Am Gay
I just found out.....

Well, I don't know how to say it?

Would you think less of me
If I say just the way it is?

I thought I...

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Categories: libertine, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rigel's Angel
I see an angel fly across the sky.
She stops and haloes Rigel,
    and looks down upon me,
     ...

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Categories: libertine, angel, bible, farewell, love,
Form: Narrative
The Statue of Liberty
(for my personal twist read the last stanza];)  

Stands tall and hovering this great green landmark lady
The world's most famous gift and token
Welcoming all...

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Categories: libertine, celebrity, creation, usa,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Fertile Crescent, Iii
Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience

The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed

Where early mans' dawn is, 
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me...

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: libertine, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
Premium Member But Her Bruises Were Green
There was once a hot cutie named Finch
Who was quite a flirtatious young minx
  On St Pat's she shunned green
  And dressed quite...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: libertine, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things