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Premium Member Breathe In the Silence-W
I hear sounds of the wind hissing and rustling.
I listen on the beach to the waves cascading,
Slapping, tossing swashing the sand pebbles,
Something close to eternity...

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Categories: minimum, me,
Form: Kyrielle



Premium Member Only the Moon Understands
No stars tonight, yet eyes transcend towards bright moonlight.
Oh Moon, without words, we converse in lone quiet moonlight.

Angst of two hearts apart, shows in somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minimum, angst, moon, romance,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member There Is An Elephant In the Room
The big headlines cause sensation,
Media’s chosen information.
Manipulative, they entomb
the big elephant in the room.

Stress is put on the suggestive
keeping tongue and the mind active.
They sweep...

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Categories: minimum, silence,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member The Samoan Bash
I was working in the Capitol late one night 
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
Nancy Pelosi began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
She did...

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Categories: minimum,
Form: Rhyme
Footle..Visit To the Dentist.
The fear
In here ..
                  The chair
  ...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minimum, satire
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Story of the Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: minimum, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form: Prose
Freedom
Freedom
We are off the chain, 
But we let up the rein. 
Endurance flows through our veins, 
But we still live in pain and disdain. 

We...

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Categories: minimum, freedom,
Form: Verse
Poetry
You ask what poetry can mean to me?
No glib reply will leap forth from my tongue.
As well to ask if food and drink might be
Of...

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Categories: minimum, appreciation, imagination, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
Eyes of May
In her eyes, I saw love eternal a mesmeric maternal with a seismic smile

For in her tears I saw life’s pain as she would restrain...

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Categories: minimum, best friend, mother, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Broken England
Broken England
By Steven Cooke

My Brave ancestors of England,
Look away, for I offend thee.

For your England is no more.
Decay eats away at this fallen empire.
Your people...

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Categories: minimum, sad, england, green, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold
Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold

(NOT FOR CONTEST THAT INSPIRED THIS POEM)

The morning dew on red rose does glisten
As early dawning sun beams brightly down
Such...

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Categories: minimum, art, beautiful, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eternity Within Me Touches
I hear sounds of the wind hissing and rustling.
I listen on the beach to the waves cascading,
Slapping, tossing swashing the sand pebbles,
Something close to eternity...

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Categories: minimum, emotions, nature,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member The Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: minimum, analogy, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Psychiatric Crack
A psychologist is a person who decided to spend a lot of money,
To recieve a piece of paper that says they know everything about me.

Sure...

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Categories: minimum, anger, health, mental illness,
Form: Couplet
The American Dream
The American Dream is dead indeed
A victim of American Greed
Trickle down they said we’d try
Then proceeded to suck us dry

The One Percent seeking thrills
Living large...

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Categories: minimum, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs