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Premium Member History Repeats Itself
I was an accomplished librarian, who took pleasure from written words,
As opera singers find their pleasure, in the halls where music is heard.

I was well...

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Categories: literary work, books, fantasy, history, imagery,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Great Write
My heart is breaking
Great write
My demons are waking
Great write
My heart is abused
Great write
My body is used
Great write
I’m going under
Great write
Deafened by thunder
Great write
I cry night...

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Categories: literary work, pain, parody, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Inspiration In Absentia
When I use my pen more often as a dart
then a tool for writing poetry, I'm lost.

When my mind can't find words that rhyme
I grumble...

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Categories: literary work, absence, muse, poetry,
Form: Narrative
I Can'T Compare Your Love
I can't compare your love to a sweet red rose,
For roses whither and they die.
I can't compare your love to the deep blue sea,
For it...

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Categories: literary work, love, passion, peace, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound
In It,  I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound


I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" 
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's,  "War and...

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Categories: literary work, art, imagination, inspiration, literature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It Is Written In the Stars
As a historian I was focused, on the long record of writing,
Considered an expert in the field, I found it most exciting.

For countless delights have...

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Categories: literary work, fantasy, history, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
What Else
'Hole in Heaven' composed by the certain dramatist of India
Depicting the Heaven captured by earthly power-mania
Yahweh’s three-leg-throne getting easily bombarded 
And the whole heavenly communion...

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Categories: literary work, literature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Reach Real Glory-Criscian
To reach real glory one must persist,
do not imitate any literary work, resist;
be original and creative,
be unique and try not to forget
that confidence in oneself...

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Categories: literary work, art, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Lives To Eat
37 % of adult Americans eat to live; the remaining 63% live to eat. This latter group is
classified as overweight/obese. The protagonist in this literary...

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Categories: literary work, food, health
Form: Verse
Premium Member Unquenchable Thirst
Vivid imagination spins,
when one creates
a fine literary work...
life would never be happier.


When one creates,
ideas keep on flowing...
life would never be happier
with thoughts swifter than light.

Ideas...

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Categories: literary work, imagination, inspirational, life, mystery,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member As Esoteric As Secrets
Why should thoughts, ideas and dreams be
as esoteric as secrets?
Turn them into poetry,
and share them with the entire Humanity...
I have shared mine with all without...

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Categories: literary work, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Verse
Why I Write
Anyone lucky to have read or hear
The poetry that I write may
Wonder the reasons for why
I write. As if I have to explain
The creativity that...

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Categories: literary work, analogy, destiny, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Bio
Once Upon a Horse
(Fighting windmills is the story.)

A fantasy to escape the fall, the void of all
Reality is not that tall when on the horse
Stories plunge the young...

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Categories: literary work, adventure, character, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Sweet Missy
MY SWEET MISSY

                      ...

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Categories: literary work, appreciation, daughter, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Adieu Not Goodbye
Why do I grieve a poet without a loss

Did the muse run dry along with the ink,

But to lose this inspiration will cost

literary work will...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literary work, goodbye, hurt, loss, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things