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Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: original, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Far Side
You say, I’m too far, 
towards the far side?
It’s a hazard of my left-handedness,
that I see the logic in abstraction.
Worlds lay within worlds
and colors bleed...

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Categories: original, how i feel, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Try
Try to live
Try to feel pain with no tears
Try to remember years past and often lost
Try, oh try to know life need not be cold...

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Categories: original, appreciation, art, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rose Bowl
The sky is a gigantic bowl of pink turned upside down,
spilling soft rose petals that peeked out
from beneath snow white billowed clouds
till - fully blossomed...

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Categories: original, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Shoes
My shoes have traveled miles of roads
Their soles are worn quite thin
Struggling with this heavy load
I carry deep within
Beyond repair, no longer shine
Scuffed with many...

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Categories: original, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Caress My Soul Sweet Poet
Love's tend'rest touch, your gentle words reveal
Caress my soul. sweet poet, with your verse
Write dulcet lullabies which make me feel
Secure, like infants held at breast...

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Categories: original, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member We Are One
We Are One


Dear Ancient Sister
I hear your distant calls finding me on a gentle breeze
You have lived in my dreams for many seasons

My voice 
Your...

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Categories: original, blessing, celebration, community, courage,
Form: Free verse
As Morning Light Unfurls
"Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune,...

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Categories: original, morning, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Strange Galaxy
When I gaze into this realm, I see more than the dazzling array
     of golden starbursts floating in a cosmic sea...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: original, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were the One For Nicola
If only I could make my way to Paris
To search the boulevards and rainy rues
I'd look to find my lonely heart an heiress
An Irish lass...

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Categories: original, funny love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Within Her Heart
Within her heart is where I wish to be
To dwell inside the garden of her soul
Where each soft heartbeat plays a symphony
And all around is...

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Categories: original, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
When She Dreams
When she dreams/ with Jennifer Noble

(It was a) different time...
a different world
Long ago she learned that..
trust can turn

(Everyone said) such a pretty girl...
Her porcelain skin...

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Categories: original, abuse, anxiety, dream, for
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gone Forever
Here I sit amongst the long grasses and the reed,
in a solitary place, where my breath is freed,
on an Indian Summer's evening on the lake...

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Categories: original, autumn, nature, sky, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: original, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Let My Quill Always Write Even If Unheard
A very wise woman once said I must write just for me.
Let there be no other reason for  e x p r e s...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: original, confidence, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs