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Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: norm, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tribute To Poetry Soupers
There's Danny with his love light burning,
Then Victor with his soulful yearning. 
Jan makes us laugh with wit and delight,
Armand serenades us all through the...

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Categories: norm, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: norm, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gentle Slam
Simply unaware....or perhaps I don't care
what others say or do
It's partially true
I'm through

Used to care what they think
of my words, of my ink
not anymore....
So much...

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Categories: norm, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTD
POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...

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Categories: norm, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: norm, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Poem Is How I Feel
Sometimes on the road of life
	Change becomes the norm
		When you think, “The sky is true”
			The horizon brews a storm
Some storms last but a minute
	Like a...

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Categories: norm, introspection, life
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member ugly gray rock -
an ugly gray rock, so I kicked it along
amused by my memories, humming a song
it was jagged and rough - I gave it no mind
and...

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Categories: norm, beauty, humanity, metaphor, nature,
Form: Couplet
I Need To Live
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: norm, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason 
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes 
a...

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Categories: norm, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)
If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few

Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far...

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Categories: norm, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member People of Mystery
Should doomsday prophesies prove true
     and our planet’s life cycles renew
          mysteries...

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Categories: norm, future, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Warriors of a Different Kind
Some people have a reassuring smile
Always at ready no matter the time
Regardless of untold things on their minds--
They're the street-lamps burning all night

Comfort rules when...

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Categories: norm, humanity, inspiration, leadership, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 31 'How High the Bar That Makes a Poet Real'
How high the bar that makes a poet Real!
(He walks in mists, and shadows of himself)
To be a poet, is to burn with steel
Set short...

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Categories: norm, funny, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member O' How Long and Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play, Poet Dedication Series
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE-- Number One- (INSPIRED BY AND FROM HIS FROST AT MIDNIGHT POEM).

(1.)

O' How Long And Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play,
Poet Dedication...

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Categories: norm, allusion, appreciation, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things