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Premium Member All In a Day At the Louvre
Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penitent, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse



A Glimpse of Light
My rueful spirit was gowned in a silken shroud of white.
Was there no chance my penitent cries had been heard?
I searched his pensive eyes for...

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Categories: penitent, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings 
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She...

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Categories: penitent, analogy, , western,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Induced Interludes
Induced Interludes

Twilight disrobes a soundless star
It claims some gentler theme from me
Caught lingering in a unified bestilled embrace
Beneath a unique spotlight of its gleaming afterglow
...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penitent, fantasy, metaphor, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Hard To Find
Love surrounds us…though people take it for granite
Oh, but we’re unaware of it! We’re ignorant of it at times of tribulation
Vibrant, vermillion roses float in...

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Categories: penitent, grief, longing, lost, love,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Lullaby
Lullaby 

Moonbow cradle songs
Sing through sheer corona mists
In grace notes of acapella hues
While golden lunar lentos
Of twilight lunar rainbows,
Crowning Luna’s full face,
Arch with andante’s touch
Like...

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Categories: penitent, moon, night, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Willow
Loose green tendrils hanging low 
kiss the soft green earth, the bough 
kneels with the wind as if in prayer, 
a penitent so humble, so...

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Categories: penitent, nature,
Form: Verse
Rhymes For Shared Times
RHYMES FOR SHARED TIMES

Maintain shared possessions - clean, tidy and in working CONDITION
Share responsibilities, or allocate them in a fair and balanced PARTITION

Keep your promises...

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Categories: penitent, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hi Storm
In mania, the body unbinds itself.
The skeleton’s dense marrow becomes hollow,
an avian adjustment. It is accelerated evolution.
Fluttering and floating in a slew of thoughts
like nervous...

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Categories: penitent, brother, drug, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Free verse
Second Conditional
Grammar Series
SECOND CONDITIONAL

If I were a gambling man as my sin;
(I confess an occasional flutter)
Then if I had an acceptable win,
 I would buy myself...

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Categories: penitent, language,
Form: Rhyme
Absconding Muse
My muse blew a fuse
Without excuse fealty did recuse
In jilting fashion without compassion 
Tendered passion did stingily ration
Lofty discourse from pen did divorce
With no remorse...

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Categories: penitent, funnymetaphor,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member A Person's Worth and Measure
A Person’s Worth and Measure

A person’s life is sacred in God’s eyes,
For we all know that God tells us no lies.  

God views a...

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Categories: penitent, allegory, change, god, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
The Glory of God
Merciful is God!
Therefore, repent thou sins and worship his glory.
Satan is purgatory.

Merciful is God!
Why be penitent and continue to sin?
Satan is agony.

Merciful is God!
By grace,...

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Categories: penitent, baptism, bible, blessing, faith,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Anchorite At the Gate of Heaven
ANCHORITE AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN

Not heeding brute reality, nor matter’s bane
I kneel at the door of heaven, a suppliant,
Transcribing words of wisdom, like the...

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Categories: penitent, allegory, blessing, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Ensued Precedent
Languor of the mind
I.	My, my, My how times flies.
        Another year has transpired.
     ...

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Categories: penitent, city, conflict, corruption, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things