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Premium Member Quarantine of the Soul
-Quarantine of the Soul-


Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost 
Dark
You open...

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Categories: persistent, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Monster
MONSTER

Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed, 
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...

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Categories: persistent, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: persistent, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: persistent, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: persistent, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: persistent, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persistent, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Out of the Blue
Falling down into
a dense, tangled mood
darker than the skies
at the midnight hour...

Leaving me caught
in infinite space
by hands on the clock
that grasp me and pull
to where...

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Categories: persistent, blue, deep, feelings, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wax and Ink
Staying near to light my way
     now that there is no more day
You're needed to so brightly burn
   ...

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Categories: persistent, inspiration, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
The Birds Begin
Despite the black, the birds begin
To call the light unto the day,
Persistent songs remind the Sun
To send the stars upon their way.

There's hope in this...

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Categories: persistent, happiness, hope, love, trust,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Fleeing Emptiness
Moon is still behind glum clouds
Sullen is the garb of a silent sky
So much like how he feels tonight
Anxious in the night laden in dark

Stars...

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Categories: persistent, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
Mr Fauci Mr Fauci
Mr Fauci Mr Fauci
You are making me to so grouchy

TV appearances persistent
I’d prefer you social distant

Every day you make a statement
Think I’ll call for noise...

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Categories: persistent, paradise, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Path I'M On
Nights once brought such pleasant dreams
But the sweet memories no longer exist
As persistent nightmares continue to insist
Those dreamy-nights never belonged to me.

Searching for meaning of...

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Categories: persistent, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Truth Found, Recovery of a Broken Soul
Truth Found, Recovery Of A Broken Soul

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In nightmarish dreams he found such great dread
Of lost hope, life's decay, eyes of the dead.
Day's clear lights his...

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Categories: persistent, art, deep, farm, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Dangling from fragile threads 
soaked in suppressed emotions
I weigh my limited options
as flashes from the past flicker 
behind a barrier of uncertainty. 
In swirling mist...

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Categories: persistent, pain, relationship,
Form: Free verse

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