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Premium Member A Modern Mona Lisa
Leonardo’s Mona Lisa has nothing on you 
with her familiar face we’ve seen for years;
but your young beauty that’s so fresh and new,
leaves men around...

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Categories: modern, beauty, image, smile, woman,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unsure the Shore
Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...

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Categories: modern, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Doors
There are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues

Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...

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Categories: modern, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modern, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: modern, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: modern, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Heritage
The ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modern, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...

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Categories: modern, america, childhood, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poet's Heaven
Among the classic poets of fine rhyme -
are balladeers who weave with lines a tale,
the satirists and bards of the sublime,
and troubadours who sing a...

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Categories: modern, heaven, poets,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Critical Liaisons
A poets dream, she'll seduce with her eyes,
pens will desire to praise her charming guise,
but be cautious, she'll treat you like her book,
explore each chapter...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modern, devotion, emotions, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: modern, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
More Foolish Footles For Super Soupy Soupers -
Andrea D?...No brainer:
Dandy
Andie

Or in her younger, wilder days she may have been:
Randy
Andie?
(Just kidding! Just kid...Ouch!)

I have no choice but to categorize several poems by my...

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Categories: modern, funny, me,
Form: Footle
To Forgive Or Not To Forgive
To forgive or not to forgive, that is the question.
When you are offended, whether real or imagined
by a loved one, a friend, or by someone...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modern, anti bullying, forgiveness, life,
Form: Sonnet
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: modern, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
No Greater Love
For God so loved this sinful world, He gave us all His son;
That we might live with Him one day, when life on Earth is...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modern, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs