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Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: once upon a time, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion
It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: once upon a time, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lilac Feathered Goodbye
I hope you would still remember me as we were,

every time you see pristine 

passing pomegranate hues of the horizon.

When clouds smear our unspoken love...

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Categories: once upon a time, break up, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: once upon a time, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Let Love Create Rainbows In Your Speech
 Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate

With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: once upon a time, analogy, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme



A Getaway To Ancient Venice
I can still recall the look upon His face

Each thought still makes me go to that enchanting place

The vernal air was floral sweet and honey...

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Categories: once upon a time, love, passion,
Form: Prose
The Unicorn
The Unicorn

Once upon a time…
an incredible event occurred that was so sublime.
On a warm summer night many years ago,
awakened by the rhythmic tempo
of hoof beats...

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Categories: once upon a time, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Dreamlove
they met, once upon a time-
her silky hand melds with his
for but a moment 
an exchanged glance, fleeting
chocolate brown orbs
swimming in pools of milk
ebony hair...

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Categories: once upon a time, desire, dream, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'separation' - the Art of Edvard Munch
When love is torn asunder and there is nothing left but dissent,
a lover's heart will be shattered, mortally wounded and rent.
In a relationship that was...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: once upon a time, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Land and Sea
Do you wish to hold me?
We can drift on the sea my love,
under the stars above.
You were my lovely dove so free,
who captivated me.

I thought...

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Categories: once upon a time, angst, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Me Live
let me live in each moment
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Categories: once upon a time, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How a Blue Rose Came To Be
Once upon a time many years ago
There was a sweet and lovely  red, red Irish rose
That was plucked prematurely from the garden vine
A budding...

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Categories: once upon a time, death, imagination, love, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Flame Once Burned
A flame once burned so brightly everything in sight 
seemed quite beautiful in its blinding light.

Everything I took for truth once upon a time
seemed to...

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Categories: once upon a time, life, passion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member An Unwritten Fairytale
Inside an inkwell, lives a fairy tale
A classic, filled with love and misery
Where," Once upon a time" has long set sail
And "happy ever after's" yet...

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Categories: once upon a time, fantasy, fun, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Special Memories
Anniversaries, birthdays, special occasions

marking significant moments in our lives

bringing back precious feelings

reliving a once upon a time.

The first time that I met you

the butterflies I...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: once upon a time, anniversary, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs