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Premium Member The Payment, Past
"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows." - Native American Proverb

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Categories: payment, adventure, age, analogy, time,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Silver Haze
*                     ~Dark Silver Haze~ ...

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Categories: payment, beauty, dark, depression, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: payment, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Window Cleaner
Window cleaning is my trade and I want to tell my story
Like the time I saw the Vicars wife in the bath in all her...

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Categories: payment, funeral, funny, humor, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Thief Called Time
A THIEF CALLED TIME

“Time is the thief you cannot banish”
Phyllis McGinley writer 1905-1978

All that live upon this earth
dwell on borrowed time,
for the human race every
single...

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Categories: payment, life, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Reap
it pulls ...
tugs on the core like a fulcrum
black ... mysterious ... warm ... final
harvest of all terrors
(for some)
yet ...
it is the magic of moonglow
the...

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Categories: payment, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Night Santa Brought Us Weed
Twas the night before Christmas and all were in need
    as we waited for Santa who had promised us Weed.
Our parents were...

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Categories: payment, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To Teachers - Constanza
 Tribute to Teachers - Constanza

Upon my soapbox I protest
    that teachers schooling young and old,
    be honored like...

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Categories: payment, children, school, teacher, teachers
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Harvest Inferno
Take me to the tombstone 
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf...

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Categories: payment, birthday, creation,
Form: Epic
A Desert Song
I found the bottle lying on a dune of wind-swept sand,
And I brushed the grains upon it with a weak and trembling hand,

I was crazy-mad...

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Categories: payment, god, drink, freedom, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Paid In Full
P ierced for our transgressions,
A crown of thorns upon His head.
I ndecent agony Jesus suffered,
D ying to give us life instead.

I niquities demanded payment.
N one...

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Categories: payment, faith, jesus, life, love,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Maybe the Last Letter
This may be the last letter I write to you; I am so very tired inside, exhausted...as I lay in bed I’m pondering things. When...

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Categories: payment, emotions, life, love, wife,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Silver Blue
Heart-warming wine
Jot down a line
Mood changes hue
To sweet silver blue

How high the cost
How much is lost
Back payment due
To sweet silver blue

Head shake and sigh
None left...

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Categories: payment, lost love,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Thoughts of Suicide
Would you even miss if I were to die?
Or would it be only a showing of your pride?
What if I told you I contemplated suicide?
Would...

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Categories: payment, betrayal, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unwanted Guest
Awakened before dawn, I gasped for breath
A sound of dark foreboding breaks the still
Outside, the unrelenting, "song of death"
That soul collector, singing, " whip-poor-will" 

Before...

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Categories: payment, bird, humor, sleep,
Form: Sonnet

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