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The Inner Child
I don't want to be your sister

I don't want to be your mother

I don't want to be your wife

nor your mistress or a lover

I want...

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Categories: needless, beauty,
Form: Free verse



Benediction
Oh so far I feel to find you
Oh so near I cannot bind you;
You so wise my plea goes heedless
You so dear my plea was...

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Categories: needless, faith, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Twilight Years
When you reach your twilight years,
It is important to keep an active mind,
Do everything possible to minimize fears
Leave resentments and regrets far behind,

Try not to...

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Categories: needless, age, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sun Too Needs a Savior
Where does the 
    selfless sun hide
when heavens
r a i n bloodstones? 
Burned and inscribed, 
from monsoon monsters,
gnawing at our bones,
the shimmering...

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Categories: needless, angst, emotions, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Preserved Melody
On a smoky grey October dusk
ensnared by a timeless musk
my heart met those dulcet tides
mellows engulfing it in strides.

A frivolous soul I'd always been
a quarter...

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Categories: needless, analogy, song,
Form: Rhyme



What's Fair Is Fair
What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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Categories: needless, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Soul With Dreams
I would like to show you something
That your eyes can not see
It will give you a sense of feeling
Allowing your thoughts to run free
I want...

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Categories: needless, dream, faith, inspirational, may,
Form: Rhyme
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: needless, angel, beauty, love, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Midnight the Unseen Within
Our Midnight The Unseen Within
        ( Collaboration )

Silent unto our sense, yet musical
With eternal harmony, they move
About our...

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Categories: needless, angel, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Two Silly Fools
Two Silly Fools (at the coffee shop)


The shop was full
Only one seat to spare
Excuse me sirs, can I have a chair?
Why yes they said, smiles...

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Categories: needless, art, imagination, poetry, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Harvest Homes
She says, you can tell America 
from the rest of the world 
by the color of the wallpaper, 
or lack thereof. 
That southern hospitality is...

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Categories: needless, life,
Form: Blank verse
Apocalypse
Careless whispers from sordid lips
Echo through the wooded landscape of hearts.
Destructive wants and needless needs,
Carried on the remnants of rust and bone,
Discarded amongst the fallen...

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Categories: needless, betrayal, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Ravishing Rain
Drizzling, dazzling
splinters of diamond
          Shards of crystal
or  liquidized glass!
      Transparent drops
from a translucent sky. 

       Ooh, that lucid lustre:
No wonder they say,
there's something sexy about...

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Categories: needless, rain,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member To My Future Self
(To open 10 years from today)
Dear Self,
I know you’re struggling with some really crazy things,
and the world is not the place you used to know.
Needless...

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Categories: needless, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What I Kneel For and What I Stand For
It seems that politics today invades nearly every aspect of life,
And creates forlorn misery, pitiful stress and needless strife.
We can't enjoy sporting events 'cause its...

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Categories: needless, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs