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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: lower, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: lower, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Storybook Princess
~ A Storybook Princess ~ 

She dreams of princes, princesses and balls 
   A little girl on tippy-toes, not a meter tall
O, the...

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Categories: lower, dream, fantasy, girl, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: lower, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: lower, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Body Song
my fingertips
touch ...
tender, but with melodic intent
you tremble
just SO ...
and sigh sweetly
the delightful answer
to my questioning hands
a gentle press ...
your supple curves against me
fitting me...

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Categories: lower, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Human Being
You are a human being they told me, something you should treasure
But isn't a human being the only animal who kills for pleasure?
Man's inhumanity to...

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Categories: lower, confusion, social,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the...

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Categories: lower, passion, universe,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: lower, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Words
"Give me words,
Thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words
For
A poem I wish to write
Not any poem
But
A masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring poet shouted,...

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Categories: lower, muse, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Catching Lightning Bugs
When I was a little girl, Granddad and I spent many summer evenings together sipping lemonade and swinging back and forth on his vintage metal...

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Categories: lower, grandfather, insect, magic, night,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member - When the Backpack Feels Heavy -
Hold on tight 
    A journey begins 
    Not in the crowded city streets 
    A...

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Categories: lower, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Precipice of a Lost Innocence
I am standing outside my bedroom, on the precipice of lost innocence.
Wide eyed, and barefoot on cold hardwood.
Someone is hammering on our front door.
My father,...

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Categories: lower, childhood, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Breaking the Surface
A millstone around my neck and weight about my feet
drag me down so deeply 
that I’m being pulled toward something. . .  
something from...

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Categories: lower, allegory, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member "life's Absolute Epigrams" (For 2010)
Christian Love frame

The only need for death to every exist
Was to slay the fictional self
And all the embellishments used to support it

Fear not, Love’s little...

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Categories: lower, inspirational, introspection, loveprayer, love,
Form: Didactic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things