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Premium Member Your Child's Eyes
The innocence lost so long ago
The undying faith we used to know
The gentle rain of a summer's skies
You can find it all in your child's...

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Categories: misspent, children, world, time,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Rhyme For Rhyme, Sail Lights of Deepest Sublime, a Set of Double Rhyming Sonnets
Double Rhyming Sonnets, Each A Perfect One Hundred Words

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Rhyme For Rhyme, Sail Lights Of Deepest Sublime,
A set of double rhyming sonnets

Rhyme for rhyme, poetry's seeking...

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Categories: misspent, art, creation, emotions, fate,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Have You Ever Thrown a Day Away
Have you ever thrown a day away?
There are many more, as you would say
There's always been and long shall be
tomorrows lining up for me

What guarantee...

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Categories: misspent, inspirational, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Bullet From My Gun
The Bullet from My Gun



I am propelled like a bullet from a gun barreling through space, 
Through your flesh, 
Through the time you have misspent...

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Categories: misspent, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between the Stingers
Trust, like a pitiless whore-master, grins
as between the sheets and at my breasts, he suckles.
Though Cupid lauds' the joy, I feel only stings.

The manic moon...

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Categories: misspent, lost love,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Baroque Spring
"Baroque Spring"


Viewed externally
I am the Winter House
Internally I am too too much 
I am eternal Baroque Spring

He watches his 
mirror twin 
and assigns fatal love
to...

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Categories: misspent, muse, poets, romance, seasons,
Form: Romanticism
La Bella Luna!
You display your beauty like a rose,

your appearance, at first frail and ghostly,

blooms to fuller view in a sky studded with stars.

O Maiden Of Mystery!...

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Categories: misspent, inspirational
Form: Verse
Premium Member This Journey So Short:
Thy nights are full of longing and despair,
And my days are filled in much the same way,
I long to live without a single care,
It is...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misspent,
Form: Sonnet
La Bella Luna
You display your beauty like a rose, 
your essence frail and ghostly 
blossoms into fuller view, a wondrous pose. 
Maiden of mystery, home of stillborn...

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Categories: misspent, moon,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Last Thoughts of Joy and Grace
Last thoughts of anyone we cannot know
unless they voice those thoughts, which would be nice -
to hear their love expressed as they let go ....

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Categories: misspent, death,
Form: Rhyme
Old Poems
the rhythm of old poems,
precision breathing 
in and out,
nose and mouth.

reality fogs a window
on a cold winter morning,
clears the congested mind
one wrinkle at a time.

in...

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© Rd Mcmanes  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misspent, age, meaningful, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can'T Think It Through
Can't reason to enlightenment,
If you try, it's time misspent.

Can't depend on certainty,
You'll find in doubt security.

Heart and mind are intertwined,
If you're looking, you won't find.

The...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misspent, humanity, perspective, philosophy, religion,
Form: Rhyme
"only Us"
Its been a long time since we've seen each others' smile..
Its been forever since we ran away from it all...
An escape from life where we...

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Categories: misspent, happinessworld, sun,
Form: Light Verse
Anti Social Media
Hash tag Mary Jane
The hackers just stole your name.
They know the name of your favorite pet.
The street you were born.
How your parents met. 

Hash tag...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misspent, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Liber Novus
“Liber Novus”


Life is read
it bleeds continually
we simply need to stop
and breathe forgive

ourselves for tripping
over misspent thought
too caught up and enraptured 
in the chapters we imagine

we...

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Categories: misspent, birth, dark, death, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things