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Premium Member Unwritten Ink
There you were - dancing,
unaware of the intense rain.
Despite grey clouds grimacing,
your radiant glamour enticed emotions.

Emeralds and sapphires shimmered
through those luminous eyes.
First glimpse of your...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manuscript, love, romance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hydrangea Hideaway
Listen to the shifting winds 
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between 
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect 
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
For we are more than
just spectators...

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Categories: manuscript, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins” 

The womb
is scooped like 
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost...

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Categories: manuscript, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Fool That Is You
What knowledge do you have of my home?
Have you taken a walk through the cemetery?
Walking on my tracks, footprints of eternity.
Have you read about the...

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Categories: manuscript, africa, anger, beauty, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Banalata Sen - Translation From Bengali Poem
This is a translation of the famous Bengali Poem " Banalata Sen". The author is 
 the renowned poet of India - Jibanananda Das (1899...

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Categories: manuscript, longing, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Weathered Door

I stand-
gazing     at the weathered    door-
beautiful    the knob is old brass

foliage   dark ...

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Categories: manuscript, future, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Cutlass Beach.
Sweeping time under the carpet
Is a time consuming chore,
Like spring cleaning
My consciousness
Upon a shingle shore,
Or picking up the seconds
Strewn along the cutlass beach,
Where the moments...

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Categories: manuscript, life, time, time, time,
Form: Ballad
Poetic Seeping
Crazed beyond this fragile manuscript
  ink now bled out in caustic flow
emptying my mind of the clutter
  pouring from a heart beat’s mechanism
grinding...

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Categories: manuscript, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Poet's Hands Are Tied
Her story is one that needs to be told.  Born in a poor family she was sent to work at a very young age....

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Categories: manuscript, analogy, childhood,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Pen of Inspiration
Charmed,
by the pen of inspiration,
the
blank sheet of paper,
could
no longer resist poetry's advances
and
gave in to the temptation
by
letting the poem's words be written
on
its immaculate face
thus
transforming itself 
from...

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Categories: manuscript, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Personification
Giving Him the Bird
I see your bright colored plumes and your cocky arrogant beak 
you think you got a trumpet in my ear but oh ,you wait and...

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Categories: manuscript, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Souvenir
a Christmas card’s a little thing
so much~ a loving wish to bring
but still my Christmas souvenir you’ll take
in kindness, for the giver’s sake

The first known...

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Categories: manuscript, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All the Worlds There Are
Just watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life...

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Categories: manuscript, art, change, god, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Loneliness Is Driving Me Crazy
I wake up in the morning and have to decide which side of the bed I will get out of today – it 
doesn’t really...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manuscript, introspectionwords, me, me, time,
Form: Narrative
Paper Buckles 5 - 6
4.
on this spine 
having a mouth of crocodile
always jump down 
the climate     

everyday 
the sunglass changes 

look at the soil and...

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Categories: manuscript, fantasyblue, flying, girl, horse,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things