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Premium Member To Bloom In Red Flame
Underneath all the layers
Of tradition
Of religion 
Of philosophy
Of reason and understanding
I smolder
In passion's pleasure bed of red
Paroxysms of pleasure
Emanate from my core
Searing the shroud
Flames of...

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Categories: oriental, sensual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Bloom In Red Flame
Underneath all the layers
Of tradition
Of religion 
Of philosophy
Of reason and understanding
I smolder
In passion's pleasure bed of red
Paroxysms of pleasure
Emanate from my core
Searing the shroud
Flames of...

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Categories: oriental, identity, image, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Mental Hospital Bills
dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid...

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Categories: oriental, education, sad, slam, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens
"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"





I walk beside you 
in your dreams,
you are always in me 
warm and pounding, 
twin heart, 
burning bright flame, 
beautiful addiction
captive...

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Categories: oriental, desire, longing, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Violet, My Adored
Violet, a lovely lady, kin to Purple, can be a contradiction.
Between her fellows Red and Blue (yet more inclined to Blue),
she lies with a calm...

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Categories: oriental, color, universe, , western,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Periwinkle Time
"The Periwinkle Time"



Blues crushed prepossessing Violet
Lavender starbursts 
sharp as diamonds
undressed, a soul preys 
with black as crow feathered lashes
that rim the open mirrors 

There in...

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Categories: oriental, freedom, imagery, love, mirror,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member An Abandoned Place
Walking deep into the woods we stumbled on an old abandoned place
A white and blue farm house with a wraparound dilapidated porch
Tall grass was overgrown...

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Categories: oriental, horror, house,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Abc Love Poem
~My Trip With Love~

A arrival from Montreal to San Francisco seeing my son and his children.
B beautiful red roses on my approach expressing their love...

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Categories: oriental, journey, love, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: In Stasis, Black Iris
The Dilettante Diaries: "In Stasis, Black Iris"



Oriental Lily's 
Stamen bleeds 
blush ochre dust
like icing sugar
duelling tongues
sweet captive 
musk

over stagnant 
white pure perfume
Stains soft feather fingerprints...

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Categories: oriental, art, freedom, imagery, psychological,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member For Just One Night
If I could have you for a night
I’d stop the dawn from bringing light
I’d make the stars stay out and play
And make the moon hold...

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Categories: oriental, sensual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In My ''Dreamy'' Spring Garden
Ajuga, will be a must, a blue beauty that blows in the wind.
Bellflowers, charming and faithful and lovely, of course I must have
Candy Tufts from...

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Categories: oriental, daffodils, flower, garden, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Stargazer
Amidst greenery
Such beauty abounds in bloom
Reaching to the sky
This Oriental Lily
Shows gorgeous colouration





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The Stargazer lily was created in 1974 by Leslie Woodriff, a lily breeder...

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Categories: oriental, beautiful, color, flower, nature,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: oriental, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Apples On Our Rock
There once reigned a great king on our Rock
Who dared the West and defied their bloc
Dark shades, face of a frown
Short brute so wanted down
Down,...

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Categories: oriental, africa, betrayal, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member As I Journey East
Come along with me as I journey East
where fragile cherry blossoms flutter
before raining down from cloudless skies.
Let's climb majestic mountains whose crests 
are always laced...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oriental, beauty, journey,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs