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Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obscure, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Land of Lights
A sweep of milky waves flood onyx sands
converging under endless summer skies
of northern lights in iridescent bands
Icelandic talismans of tales sublime.

A glassy sea of crystalline...

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Categories: obscure, beauty, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: obscure, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Poetry Is the Cure
When smoke consumes clear horizons,
manipulating corridors of the mind,
beckoning imminent afflictions

poetry is the remedy.

A poet's first eternal love,
forming an authentic bond.
A tonic of silent expressions
creating...

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Categories: obscure, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One
Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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Categories: obscure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Arms of starry Skies
My eyes cry for
fuschia glimmer on 
indigo waves again,
but all I see are 
haunting hues
of black sequin
glittered epitaphs;
reflections of hollow 
clouds enveloping cold air;
building tension...

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Categories: obscure, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: obscure, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: obscure, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The D Word
Sitting and gazing at the world through the window.

Silence is broken with whistles of wind, 
rustling through lifeless leaves.
As specks of rain trickle down panes...

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Categories: obscure, angst, relationship, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Stone - Unknown
you May-
think me odd    perhaps strange 
peculiar and off the wall-
but I
like to wander cemeteries

among    rows   ...

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Categories: obscure, heartbroken, memorial, peace, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Catharsis
Tears of the past invoke frozen footprints
When fears rekindle flares of dire misery
Feeling the ache, straining blood streams
As wrinkles pop up swelling deep worries,

Holding dialogue...

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Categories: obscure, deep, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Book of Books
A book comprised of sixty-six,
with content of a unique mix.
Though found in almost every home,
It’s very much an unread tome.

The authors were a motley crew,
Into...

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Categories: obscure, allusion, bible, christian, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poem For My Sun
To my Sun, l've become
silent to the screeching 
screams from sirens, 
hiding beneath sapphire seas.
I'm floating like tepid
ripples in wandering waves, 
serenading in songs 
from...

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Categories: obscure, innocence, poems, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: obscure, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: obscure, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things