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Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
The poems I never wrote are small fish -
sardines that roam the ocean of my mind.
Swift thoughts are they, and like a fleeting wish,
each flits...

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Categories: matured, writing,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member HIGHER LOVE
If I couldn't please you anymore
Would you still lavender love me
Or would your heart drop on black floor
Would you still hazel hug me

Would you still...

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Categories: matured, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sweet Child of Mine
As I watched my daughter playing with her son, I couldn't help but see myself in her. I still think of her as a child,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matured, daughter, grandson, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Puppy Love Vs True Love
Once love, or rather, that which I thought was love
Swept me over
And had me racing up on a highway
I raced up and up
Till I reached...

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Categories: matured, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost and Found
I loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.

I...

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Categories: matured, adventure, fantasy, flower, green,
Form: Couplet



She Is Healed
She was once young and immature
Delicate to the touch, fragile to the core
Always trying her best, yet being bullied

And despite all the ugly hurtful things...

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Categories: matured, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meat
Anchored by its feet hangs the carcass
Butcher removes brisket and strings it
Chuck steak diced for stews and pies
Dark well matured silverside rests
Entrails give the dogs...

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Categories: matured, food,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member - Walking Near the Waters - 4
WALKING NEAR THE WATERS


Under  the  warm  golden  hug  of sunrise’s bliss
shielded  by  rugged ridges  and flagging ...

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Categories: matured, inspirational, jesus, life, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Paris March Against the Beast of Fear
The raging beast of fear in darkness was
Conceived
Its father: Terror  
Its mother: Ignorance, 
With the black milk of hate was it
Breastfed, 
By wrath was...

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Categories: matured, fear, freedom, god, love,
Form: Personification
Breathe
Breathe 

When the night claims you like a wayward leaf of old 
and it takes you to the caves where anything turns gold. 
You don't...

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Categories: matured, image, muse, new year,
Form: Quatrain
Tribute To My Dearest Daughter
Tribute to My Dearest Daughter

My darling daughter,
Precious child of my youth,
Dearest to my heart - 
From that wonderful moment 
When I first felt that fluttering...

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© Kika Ayala  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matured, daughter, love, relationship, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Wondering Wolf
Two decades old,
Soft skin light toned,
Bushy brown hair,
skinny slim built,
Eyes blue as the sky,
Emotions and mind,
All so very shy.

Born a Capricorn,
Raised in a working class,
Ball...

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Categories: matured, deep, desire, emotions, feelings,
Form: Name
Amplified
Nothing is ever time wasted, 
just the interlude to the rest of the album. Soon it becomes nostalgia. To think you almost pressed the skip...

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Categories: matured, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meeting Expectations of a Realist-W
Passions for expectations with life were none
Till the teenage accepted life as it came anon.
Went to gym, played games, attended school
Swam in the open sea,...

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Categories: matured,
Form: Bio
For Charlie, With Love
To thee I sing O’ muse of verse,
Of our world that the Gods do curse.
For what Gods are these who cruelly play,
Their wicked games, for...

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© Matt Riley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matured, angst, family, world, heart,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things