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Premium Member Summers Eve
~Summer’s Eve ~


I am a woman!
I am proud-

I am everything you want. 
Plus more
The adoring wife,
A beautiful mother, 
A grandmother a granddaughter 
A daughter, a...

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Categories: material, beautiful, grandmother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse



Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: material, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and...

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Categories: material, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Mission Accomplished
I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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Categories: material, confusion, fantasy, joy, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Spoonful of Rice
(This is a universal story of mother’s sacrifice for their children, be it material, emotional, or intellectual.)


It was during the Korean War
Father was taken away...

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Categories: material, love,
Form: Free verse



The Peace of Wild Things
Alone and left to contemplate, 
had I a pair of wings,
I’d fly away and search the world 
for the peace of wild things.

To live among...

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Categories: material, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Resolutions
As autumns of dear life, I endeavor to face,
Reminiscing in springs, memories I retrace;
Cognizant that splendor of seasons will end,
Seeking amends, life’s goodwill I befriend;

Resolving...

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Categories: material, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Made In China
"Made In China"

They can have my money
If it saves me money

The toys I played with when I was young,
Says I enjoyed their hands
The Labels read...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: material, business, culture, dedication, funny,
Form: Free verse
Existential Reprise
Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and...

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Categories: material, philosophyme, old, me, old,
Form: Free verse
What's Fair Is Fair
What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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Categories: material, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faith Is a Powerful Thing
Freedom of thought and expression could lead one astray.
Always there exists the temptation to tread on dangerous ground.
Ingrained ideas and habits become lax.
Therefore, ever careful...

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Categories: material, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member My Birthday Wish
I turn thirty-two years old today
and I have a wish to silently say
for a future that I hope to make
as I blow out the candles...

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Categories: material, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Who Are You -
Fascinating small and large things in life
A dancing feeling in your stomach
Independence and freedom
Positive resonated in the air

Friendship and community means to stand together
about the...

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Categories: material, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Soul, You Need To Turn To God
My backslidden soul*, you were converted by GOD’s Word
As shown by your divine growth and testimony ’s record,
But you departed away from that great spiritual...

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Categories: material, christian, courage, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member When the Tab Comes Due
Frail humans we are and mistakes are made,
but there will be a time to pay
for pain inflicted on others.

Run swiftly from dark clouds hovering above,
baggage...

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Categories: material, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things