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Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: limited, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: limited, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limited, analogy, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: limited, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Threesome
New Dawn
First day of a new chapter, philosophical reflections emulate like four seasons,
reminiscing hearts whose voices are no longer heard, yet I feel their spirits...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limited, analogy, poetry, sin,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Seeds of the Soul
In our souls lie all the seeds,
Waiting patiently to meet our needs.
Soulfully waiting for us to choose,
For us to use or abuse.

We plant our seeds...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limited, community, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eve of Evening
Where to turn, oh friend I ask
I chose to turn to you,
if you'd be so kind. 

Though I try hard to describe the beauty 
heard...

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Categories: limited, eve, life, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Seeds of the Soul
In our souls lie all the seeds,
Waiting patiently to meet our needs.
Soulfully waiting for us to choose,
For us to use or abuse.

We plant our seeds...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limited, community, creation, freedom, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member These Are the Days of My Life
I recall fond memories of happy childhood days 
When life was so much simpler in oh so many ways

As children we played outdoors and had...

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Categories: limited, childhood, growing up, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: limited, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Train To Auschwitz
In nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...

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Categories: limited, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form: Narrative
Depth of a Man
(During contemplation)
What are we? Thought the flea,
there must be more than what we see.

(With careful consideration)
Am I free? Thought the bee,
and is there much aside...

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© Lee Bates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limited, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Dangling from fragile threads 
soaked in suppressed emotions
I weigh my limited options
as flashes from the past flicker 
behind a barrier of uncertainty. 
In swirling mist...

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Categories: limited, pain, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Existentialist Asks---What Is Life
What is life?

Euphonies, cacophonies and chromosomal anomalies
intertangled destinies and illusive methodologies 

Occurring in obscure dimensionless time
Millenniums fertilized to create the sublime

Perceived by ideations so pure...

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Categories: limited, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Word
In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was...

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Categories: limited, humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme

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