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Premium Member What Holds More Resplendent Gifts of the Great and Vast Beyond
What Holds More Resplendent Gifts Of The Great And Vast Beyond

Seas of poetry orations, I once took my swims
being strong in spirit, stouter in heart...

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Categories: orations, art, creation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: orations, political
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ramblings Inside a Door
Somehow in the late of nighttime,
a wooden door's front lantern brings
me to a table where strangers 
from a distant tavern grow more animated 
with a...

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Categories: orations, people, places, voice,
Form: Lyric
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 23
I conversed with the lone demon,
Who had asked for redemption on an earlier day
On this day her voice was mightier,
More brave, and powerful
She dared not...

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Categories: orations, bible, change, conflict, irony,
Form: Epic
On Poetry and Prose
A bridge from colloquial to courtly 
fare
A span where idealism and fantasy 
pair
A railway to the existential realm; 
celestial lair 
A conduit through which rational...

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Categories: orations, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme



Inspiration
"INSPIRATION"


               Instinctively innately I intuit inspirationally
     ...

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Categories: orations, inspiration,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Shape of the Institution
I have the shape of the institution.
Each email address is a human.

They are known by their words and actions.
The whole wide world is just a...

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Categories: orations, creation, dream, family, friend,
Form: Verse
Shark-Tooth Choker
What hides beneath the busting red-tide waves, what wains?

Have you seen the Fat-white, would-be Samurai that lives 'round these parts?

To him you see, the
warrior code...

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Categories: orations, people
Form: I do not know?
I Know This Man of God
I know this man of God that roars from the bottom of the city, below the red blood line.
Knowing that his words never fail, every...

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Categories: orations, dedication,
Form: Light Verse
S O W E T O
Some place somewhere,in nowhere
Oh! come dearly wind,come to the place and everywhere
Were it not bad of you to bend and bypass us in your haste
Eternal...

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Categories: orations, africa,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Obsession
Obsession

Obsession with "O's"

Oh, obsession’s obfuscating oligarchy
Oceans of oblivion
Outrage in ostentatious obsession
Overrun in hurricanes named obdurate and obstinate
Overtures of oxidized compulsive orchestration in
Obbligatos overflowing obituaries -
Overbearing...

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Categories: orations, angst,
Form: Free verse
My Spiritual Expeditions
Forty-Five years ago, it was, then
I held my Bible, as a close friend
Yelled loudly and thumped my finger
If you don’t believe like me; a sinner
In...

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Categories: orations, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Apart, Apart, In Ever-Dream
I come from Dawn to Night's long mile
Whose boyhood heard the songs of brooks
And mourned the sparrow's falling,
And Hope, those days did lift my wings
As...

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Categories: orations, angst, death, depression, introspection,
Form: Alliteration
Love's Journey
As lilac lace conjures softness
as forest's green sparks with life
walk in splendor with one heart
be humble in your fondness - for
sluggishness arises - when love...

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© Katy Weir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: orations, love
Form: Free verse
He'severythingiwant
His warm breath like milk,
Dark eyes that glow
Sharp yet fulfilling presence
Provides sense of comfort-
I adore his appealing character

Speech proves his knowledge 
Of proper influence
Both in...

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Categories: orations, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, husband, love,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things