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Premium Member Mystique Motif
As the southern wind slides on the satin ambiance,
you sprint in the shimmer of the flushing meadow,
the disheveled hair softly swirling on your face,
designs the ebony lattice of lilting grace alluring.
The blushed face caresses the lone leaf flying enticed,
that’s when love weaves a mystique motif...

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Categories: motif, analogy, beauty, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Writing Poetic Motif
With pen in hand I sat, clearly I could visualize
the graphic scene I intended my readers to see.
Each detail was so vivid when I closed my eyes;
a child, happily singing beneath a dogwood tree.

Trying to write the words, my breath was shallow.
How could I describe...

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Categories: motif, imagery, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Motif Crosses—iconic Blast
Milieu iconography with flashing lights
Smokey gambling rooms—gang wars
Flashy suits and fedora hats in the fights
Neon signs flashing—this world is yours

Hey, get a name with the next phone call
Surely, he can’t really be all that rough
While hanging out in a flower shop stall
Like bowling pins fall...

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Categories: motif, adventure, history, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member motif mortal -
a thousand orbs bearing, thus
          connected, all, or put to dust

focused photons press the link
          escaping matter's tacit brink

stretched to ovals, masses bent
    ...

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Categories: motif, beauty, creation, earth, humanity,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Motif
Make up your mind to create more,
Seek form and kind with joy galore.


Make magic work the way you ask,
Seek a sure jerk that pays fond task.


Make moments count in wealth that comes,
Seek source and fount where health now sums.


Make time pay well for words that...

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Categories: motif, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Tomoe Motif
ellipsis of words                                          ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: motif, culture, history, people, religion,
Form: Senryu



Weaving a Motif
Again you are enslaved by your 
past. The comfort zone.
You were very emotional 
at defining moment.

The mist halts the onslaught 
of unstable pain. Gives 
an excuse to thrive, for
the fallen angel from symphony.

Stitching the drab evening 
with moon’s needles. I will 
not bring the white...

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Categories: motif, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Ribbon Motif
My meditating, closed
eyes seek guidance
in ribbon motif.

Exquisite, purposeful box,
glossy-silk embossed,
appears in light.
Prayerfully tossed cares
fill its depth.
A soothing lid,
peacefully slid, adheres.

Ribbons in rapture
dance, pleat, weave -
                    ...

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Categories: motif, angst, faith, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Motif and Reason of Things
To the world,
  drives the
  phenomena...
  To the common man,
  the heart demands,
  to the bird the  abyssal
  flight...
  To the poet...,
  All reasons...!...

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Categories: motif, allegory, allusion, appreciation, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Birthday Motif
Live from your heart,
Let magic start;
Have a great day,
Style your own play;
Craft then sure art,
Love sums all parts;
Hurl faith and hope,
Sculpt joy you scope!


Be of good cheer,
In any game;
Learn to be you,
With all things due;
Grace fills pulse clear,
Happy lives here;
Start right each day,
Glimpse rainbow rays.




Leon...

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Categories: motif, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loss of Motif
The seamless sky called life shined in boundless beauty,
on the rippling breeze flitted a butterfly free,
on its wings I painted lattice of my being,
flowers in the garden bloomed all seasons for me.

The dawning horizon splashed the spectrum of bliss,
as on the wings of dream I...

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Categories: motif, analogy, dream, life, loss,
Form: Quatrain
White Motif
It is really nice
When things in the house are white
It feels warmth and bright....

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Categories: motif, color, home, perspective, truth,
Form: Senryu
A Three Note Motif
They called the Willow Bunch
they lurked around the
Ruschello Mio looking to
find jobs. They had skills
to impress and they wished to
work. They sawed wood for the
canteen, They were butchers
and cooks. Saggio the next to
the oldest of the six was seen as "clean and cute"
he had his...

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Categories: motif, music,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member An Evanescent Life - Xaxa Sonnet
Our life is as evanescent as the 
trumpet flower of the morning glory. 
The merest chapter in the history 
of mankind’s ever compelling story. 
Various serendipitous ramblings 
ultimately contingent ‘on quarry; 
retold to captive audience in tones 
melodious as silver-tongued lory.
Redolent of an evening-scented stock,...

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Categories: motif, death, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Suspension of Belief
Are lingering sighs, while expressing disbelief
Showing some frustration ere welcome relief,
With sincere, rapt attention to what it entails
Carefully absorbing the minutest of details,
Sometimes with the aid of a silk handkerchief.

Then, too, observing the most foolish mischief
Showing itself in a variety of impetuous motif
Sending one off...

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Categories: motif, perspective,
Form: Rondeau

Book: Reflection on the Important Things