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Premium Member Alone At the Holocaust Museum
ALONE AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

rose early in the morning,
indulged in a lovely quiche lorraine,
ventured out

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Categories: museum, holocaust,
Form: Free verse



Letter To Rhapsodical Rose

Here, I scribble a letter 
to the rhapsodical rose, 
dipping my quill in 
stardust that slips 
like a violet waterfall 
from the tips of 
white...

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Categories: museum, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Smile In My Morning
A tease on the wings of summer's breeze
A tickle in the touch of whispering winds
A glimpse at the art of museum paintings
A stare in the...

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Categories: museum, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Death of Poetry
I gaze beyond 
the silver winged 
     heart of 
twinkling twilight,
lost within metaphors 
    in warm cashmere
 ...

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Categories: museum, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nevermore Will Raven Return
*Note:  A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three 
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...

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Categories: museum, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member In a Field of Gold
“We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we lie in fields of gold.” - from Sting’s Fields of Gold

One day in a museum,...

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Categories: museum, lost love, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Phobia
No flame within! 
      do I hold for you
no delightful delicacy
      shall I put to...

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Categories: museum, angst, light, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts of 'The Poet'
Day after day I sit, poised deep in thought and contemplation
while tourists stop and stare at me with eyes of admiration
Sometimes they seem hypnotized, looking...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: museum, art, imagination,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Winged Snowflakes
Jack Frost, Jack Frost, how we feel your icy touch.
The earth lies under your freezing clutch.
You are a sneaking thief coming to steal the russet...

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Categories: museum, environment, seasons, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Girl With the Pearl Earring
That pensive look on her sweet face 
Just like a child of mine.
Her eyes seem to follow you with
Dominion that's divine.

Northwest light on soft blush...

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Categories: museum, art, beauty, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am Poetically Bankrupt
© Arthur Vaso 2014
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Notes: This poem was formally called “Winter Blizzard” I just posted it with a new title. If you know of what I...

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Categories: museum, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Ugly Beauty Queen
Your ass is slightly enlarged
Your hips are somewhat wide
You have wrinkles all over your thighs
You eyes they droop 
Crows feet shoot me dead
With your dreary...

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Categories: museum, angel, beauty, love, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortal Bucolic Painting
He ran the palm of his hand across the canvas,
Felt its soft, smooth surface, excellent fabric.
It was well primed with gesso, and he was sure
The...

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Categories: museum, appreciation,
Form: Pastoral
The Drying of the Ink
No longer at desk the typewriter has been given 
it's final rest.
As he cant recall the day or year.

The once strong mind is closed the...

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Categories: museum, death, health, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Battles of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
In eighteen seventy nine; twenty second of January 
Was the day of a great battle and for the Zulus victory 
At Isandlwana the Zulu army...

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Categories: museum, africa, england, river, soldier,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs