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Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: my heart sank, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Abandoned
I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose...

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Categories: my heart sank, growing up, house, memory,
Form: Haibun
Language Barrier
I couldn’t understand the language she spoke,

at least not all of it,

but the emotion pouring past her lips, 

the tears in her eyes, her clenched...

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Categories: my heart sank, emotions, immigration, inspiration, language,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Mother -- Come Home
Sitting with her now
       Watching 
How did she get so old?
       How did...

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Categories: my heart sank, car, fear, love, mother,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Kiss - Reverse Poem
When you kissed me
A fool fell in love
I became weak in the knees
The world revolved around your halo
Angel eyes captured my imagination
Like Einstein I discovered...

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Categories: my heart sank, betrayal, change, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and...

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Categories: my heart sank, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Head of the Class
My heart sank, her buttery sweet voice
summoning me to the front of the class
I stood there chalk in hand, with my shoulders slumped
The question she...

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Categories: my heart sank, emotions, school, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Goddess of Home Furnishings
My Goddess of Home Furnishings 

I watched you floating in your usual way, always in song..,
though you could not see me.
From between the racks of...

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Categories: my heart sank, angst, fate, innocence, judgement,
Form: Verse
The Charity Jump
Insanity enters my distorted simple mind
To raise funds for charity for some unknown,
Impulsive, heroic, death defying, maligned 
Save children or animals or even Sierra Leone...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: my heart sank, fear, me,
Form: Rhyme
My Darkest Day
I have always loved you daddy and I always will
Even though its been 2 years I feel it stinging still
I miss your touch, your laugh,...

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Categories: my heart sank, cry, dad, death,
Form: Lyric
With the Hopes That Our Paths Will Cross Once More
Here I walk alone down a distant shore,       
Watching the sunset, as clouds drift away,    ...

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Categories: my heart sank, heartbroken, loneliness, lonely, longing,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Audience Falls Silent
I had heard about a ...
    a writer's group  ... in my city
      where a writer...

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Categories: my heart sank, native american, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
No Sunset In the Rain
It’s quarter after six, Friday evening. He  thought with a smile, besides the rain, everything is looking great. Table set beautifully just for two....

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Categories: my heart sank, break up, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Crumbs
What's left of the crumbs, leave it to me.
His cries tore my ailing eardrums, my skin as blue as the calm of country nights
Then I...

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© Tesn Ime  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: my heart sank, age, body, boyfriend, candy,
Form: Free verse
Finding Peace Within Chaos
Let Your grace shower me with goodness,
As evil thoughts haunts me with madness.
Spirits encircle me, seeking my fall,
I hold on, searching for the angle of...

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Categories: my heart sank, angel, hope, life, light,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs