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Premium Member Violin
She sleeps in her rose wood bed,
                  ...

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Categories: on the whole, death, love, rose,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Never Shame a Woman
Never ever shame a woman
for the fire in her soul
still your fear that you're unable
to give that which makes her whole

Never ever shame a woman
for...

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Categories: on the whole, passion, women,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: on the whole, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse
Uncharted Waters
An ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,  
yet I am...

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Categories: on the whole, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fallen Poet
(The Fallen Poet)

Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the whole, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eternal Life and the Total Self

Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...

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Categories: on the whole, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: on the whole, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Is Possible To Know
It’s possible to know from whence I came
There is no need to even have a name
I am a part of eternal creation
Reunification is my destination

Born...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the whole, creation, heart, life, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Eroticism of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
   let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
     romance a mingle,...

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Categories: on the whole, appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dry Mascara
DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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Categories: on the whole, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper

finally
 
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..

the crisp red leaf 
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...

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Categories: on the whole, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Summer Lace
The shadows fall like summer lace
       Through palm trees fluttered in the sun
The soft caress of dawning breeze
 ...

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Categories: on the whole, beauty, day, love, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Dance
Voice: Jason Williams

***

I danced! 
Whirling air around me, particles of sundust 
in tornadoes and hurricanes following me in awe
I danced.
Each night I wake and feel...

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Categories: on the whole, abuse, dance, music, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: on the whole, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: on the whole, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things