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Premium Member One Thousand Goodbyes
One Thousand Goodbyes

Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on...

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Categories: one thousand, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Streets of Blood
Streets of blood

She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow

With swine and pearls running...

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Categories: one thousand, hate, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Life Behind the Mirror -
Enchanting chambers made of glass 
Breaking reflections shatter falling into ruin
The history behind the tears and sorrow of a heart
Fragile echoes inside truth broken always...

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Categories: one thousand, art, beauty, blessing, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I the Mirror - With a Major Contribution By Joseph May - Dramatic Free Verse
an impression of the world
stands before me
Left is right, and right is wrong, 
and the mirror reflects a melancholy song.

i the mirror
not 
the babbling brook,
or
the...

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Categories: one thousand, conflict, dark, depression, grief,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member My Love She'D Lent
~ MY LOVE SHE'D LENT ~

I followed her where'er she went
Lured onward by her fragrant scent

She clasped his hand, a handsome gent
How could she know...

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Categories: one thousand, longing, love hurts, romance,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member - Beauty Is Looking Into Your Eyes and Seeing Your Heart -
Twilight has it's own wings and its own melody
Battles with the mystery of a sun setting horizon dawning hues 

Pearl white smile's from the moon,...

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Categories: one thousand, beauty, feelings, heaven, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - a Horrendous Night - 0
I Think Of You - A Horrendous Night (Part 0)

Two a.m....
I open my window 

...a crack,

the dark is blinding.

It is a severe cold outside 
a...

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Categories: one thousand, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From the Deepest Caves One Name Echoed
Smiling hotly you're the flame captured underneath 
burning with a sunrise golden gleam frosted

Sparkling within dewdrops crystals crash 
over oceans waves rise and fall to...

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Categories: one thousand, beautiful, flower, heart, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Gettysburg Hauntings
Gettysburg Hauntings

When General Meade met General Lee
At Gettysburg in 1863

Sons of the South battled Northern brothers
And neither side has ever recovered

Fifty-one thousand lives lost in...

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Categories: one thousand, history, mystery, visionarywar, war,
Form: Couplet
Dark Ages
If in one thousand years they'll ask me
What made this one so different 
I'll say lust for purity  
And control lingered on
Only this time...

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Categories: one thousand, angst, history
Form: Nonet
Premium Member My Name Is Scheherazade
I do not want to die
Like each virgin you bed
When you have ravished her
It's off with pretty head

I do not want to die
But…Oh to be...

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Categories: one thousand, history, how i feel,
Form: Epic
Wild Cherries
A giant snowball in springtime
From twenty yards out the sound and smell
Closer now; breathing her numbing scent
Listening to the drowsy hum
of greedy and jealous bees
forced...

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Categories: one thousand, devotion, nature, nostalgia, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Thousand White Butterflies
Ten Thousand White Butterflies 

Soft walls undulate like liquid steel
Metamorphic pulsations
Iridescent glow
Spiritual guides
Ushering departed souls

Rippling contractions
From cocoon-like womb
Bringing forth new breath
Replenishing blown out candles
Eyes scrunched
Painful...

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Categories: one thousand, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
          ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one thousand, humor,
Form: Limerick
Poet Destroyer Parades and Carnivals
Poet Destroyer - Parades and Carnivals

Soft feathers gather up with color
On the wind to play as friends
They come floating first above the boulevard
Kind thoughts there...

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Categories: one thousand, adventure, celebration, celebrity, cheer
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs