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Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: perishable, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Famous Poets Dedication Series, Part One
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Famous poets dedication series, Part One

I.

O' Man Of Perishable Earth

O' priest of golden sun
where hides thy black heart
Pray each day, dark deeds...

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Categories: perishable, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fading
Written: September 19, 2023

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishable, analogy, appreciation, fate, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living, Upended
walled isolation
     when a relationship hits hurdles
     gripped by the unfamiliar 
     a...

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Categories: perishable, change, conflict, health, life,
Form: Free verse
Portal
A gateway, as one leads from Terra firma to the sea
Or a path leading to experiences and knowledge
A leap of faith to explore newer potentials,...

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Categories: perishable, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Journal
The faded pages of long-ago
reads like a journal
that's bound together by the threads of emotion

They speak of a tapestry from years gone by
written in the...

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Categories: perishable, memory, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member REMNANTS-Divine Magnetism Contest
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff." Carl Sagan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We’re all stardust, remnants of Divine Magnetism and celestial fire 
   ...

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Categories: perishable, inspiration, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for...

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Categories: perishable, friendship, fun, happiness, journey,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishable, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Chasing the Blues Away
See you struggled by the blues,
Suffocating drowning eventually,
Where friends comrades pertly, 
Sacked tortured left on vex,
Life still there never let it go!

Keenly and accepted blues,
Shadowed...

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Categories: perishable, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Optimism
Even in darkness,if one writes with colours one can see
    the bright side of life rather than writing in black
  ...

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Categories: perishable, faith, inspirational, world, faith,
Form: I do not know?
I Am Poetry
I stand solo, aloof in the snow, a precipitation 
               ...

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perishable, dedication, devotion, dream, hope,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Nothing In Excess
Nothing in Excess
(the second Delphic maxim of Apollo)



A mixture of the brute and the divine
          ...

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Categories: perishable, philosophy, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Being Life-Giving Person
Powerful message of hope
Eternal God did not make death
Nor rejoice in the destruction of the living
God is in the side of life, not death

Father Christ...

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Categories: perishable, black african american, christian,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Got Any Change
There seems to be no lack of opportunities, but an inadequate supply of ‘readiness’. My most recent opportunity came knocking on yesterday morning, Monday, July...

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Categories: perishable, blessing, christian, food, love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs