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Premium Member Ancient Stones
Charcoal black tip of arrowhead,
among these ancient, stones - stained red

Heartbeats share rhythms of ghostly drums..
Winds carry haunting, chanting hums

I feel your blood, flow here...

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Categories: outlasting, native american,
Form: Couplet



Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: outlasting, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Sky Full of Stars
'Twas pain that taught my heart to bleed 
for sorrows of another...
then kept my deepest heartfelt needs
in silence to serve a buffer

For in the cutting...

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Categories: outlasting, love, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sinless Eyes - a Collab With James Fraser
SINLESS EYES


Nine solid months unto her womb is he,
breathing and heartbeat they do as one.
Carrying him safely, his husband sees,
providing food and money his daily...

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Categories: outlasting, children, evil, family, inspiration,
Form: Ballade
Clerihew
Edmund Clerihew Bentley,

practiced his craft so intently.

This clever creation still echoes in halls,

outlasting his pricey education at St. Paul’s.



When I read the WIKI'd the 411...

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Categories: outlasting, funny, thank you, education,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Ring Out, Wild Bells, To the Wild Sky (Ode To Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Ring Out, Wild Bells, to the Wild Sky
(Ode to Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Fair son of England whom I write
of saw not well; thus short of sight,
formed...

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Categories: outlasting, on writing and words
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Love Is Eternal
Reality reveals hidden pain,
hiding behind questions never asked.
And falling tears burn like acid rain,
as unrequited love is unmasked.

Though passion's bloom wilts on the floor,
hope resonates...

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Categories: outlasting, beautiful, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sinless Eyes - a Collab With Olive Eloisa Guillermo
SINLESS EYES - a collab with JAMES FRASER

SINLESS EYES


Nine solid months unto her womb is he,
breathing and heartbeat they do as one.
Carrying him safely, his...

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Categories: outlasting, abuse, angst, child, family,
Form: Ballade
See
See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind...

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Categories: outlasting, age, goodbye, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Time
“ UNSUPPORTED CODE ” ©
Now it’s about time for all to be known
What’s always been there are facts to be shown
Eternal at last it embraces...

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Categories: outlasting, butterfly, time,
Form: I do not know?
My Team
Hopeful in the face of defeat
Outlasting their opponents
Urging the fans into frenzy
Standing the test of time
Taking every play to the limit
Offensively growing each season
Name bringing...

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Categories: outlasting, sports
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Designer Ways and Means
Permacultural Designers
are taught to multiply the number
and networking depth
of relationships
between species
and organisms
and systems
and cooperative economic networks,
rather than the simpler adding functions
of traditional agriculture;
Where,
if you plant...

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Categories: outlasting, class, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Three In One
THREE IN ONE

Fortified towering walls surround
persons running through and fro
stature small and little feeble
only a fig tree available for him
yet, he ran too.
Fast!
climbing the tree...

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Categories: outlasting, god, nature, religious, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yours...Is the Most Beautiful Smile
Yours..is the most beautiful smile,
the source of all my inspirations;
that star never fading, always outshining others...


And from it joy is emanated;
with the speed of a...

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Categories: outlasting, devotion, friendship, happiness, love,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Revolution of 2020
The 2020 Revolution 
outed Bad EgoUnbalanced Energy Paradigms
associating these with toxic symptoms;
LeftBrain Desecrating Rabidity
preceded by Chronic Stressed Paranoia
preceded by Cognitive-Affective Dissonance
about being born into a...

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Categories: outlasting, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things