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Premium Member Perfect
my palette is encrusted
with all the dried remnants
of yesterdays hopes
where strokes of genius and folly
were first born in
a fresh imagination

my canvas
overlaid with realities
correcting unfinished pieces...

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Categories: overlaid, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Enter the Red Room
Let's take a step back in time,
step into the golden temple of God
that Solomon built
There shining on a hill
stood the beautiful sanctuary of God,
casting forth...

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Categories: overlaid, blessing, jesus, love, religious,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Greet the Sun
Shall raw and bleeding wounds gape wide for thee
and overcoat each new parchments’ page?
Are thee foul succubus seeking a sage
undead and living vicariously?

Shall another’s soul...

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Categories: overlaid, health, life, on writing
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Storm
Tilt back your head and cry havoc.

As blood and bone twine beneath your skin,
overlaid, with a kind of raw madness,
that has you running to the...

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Categories: overlaid, absence, anger, sad, water,
Form: Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous...

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Categories: overlaid, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silhouette
Shards of shimmering and redolent recollection, of images memories and distant life actions. Long since transpired, and now nothing holds my hand, yet thoughts still...

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Categories: overlaid, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cthulhu Sunset
The slash that is the roll of clouds
                 ...

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Categories: overlaid, angst, dark, dream, fantasy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Lost Battles
Lost Battles

Rubies and blue sapphires all winking in the sun
as they topple down the stream
today the bloodshed’s done.
Lo the fallen kingdom, the people all enslaved
wickedness...

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Categories: overlaid, conflict, corruption, loss, pain,
Form: Rhyme
' the Script '

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wreathing this life's mind's eye - wrenched, gnarled, hit, burked
neurons in diminution - clashed, rammed, slayed
futility tops up canvass of murk
phonemes, words, phrases now frolicly...

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Categories: overlaid, death, on writing and
Form: Rhyme Royal
' Masquerade '

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" this disguise is my final revenge for myself ... "

Mimicry of visage
Authentic effigy?
Superb tangible facade?
Kaleidoscope icon ?

Contrived through lofty scrupulous gilt scraps of aesthetic...

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Categories: overlaid, art, life,
Form: Acrostic
' In My Dreams '
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Burning, gleaming effulgent golden daystar - mirrored, reflected, pictured
Drawing up the facsimile of faith, ardour and iridescence
Trees oscillate and dance together with the rhythmic, dulcet...

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Categories: overlaid, fantasy, nature,
Form: Free verse
' Shut '

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" I LOVE YOU, even if you don't mind ... "

mouth are kept shut
eyes overflowed with myriad driblets of tears
no words came out
no single phoneme...

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Categories: overlaid, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
False Face
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Categories: overlaid, mystery
Form: Acrostic
Snow
Starlight sparkles on snow falling, gently down to earths embrace.
   Now she's dressed in pure white satin, elegantly, so precise.
   Overlaid...

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Categories: overlaid, snow,
Form: Acrostic
A Dry Riverside
Cherished by many desperate with no joy
Within the heartbeat of exclamatory rough homeboy
Finds peace too merry and blue sky solitary
Walking on all four and not...

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Categories: overlaid, inspirational, lonely, marriage, pain,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things