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Premium Member Stillness
I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.

Often I had...

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Categories: persists, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Message For An Old Cold Man
November was not all that bad. We had
Thanksgiving feasts and very little snow.
The Yuletide season came. Since it was glad,
I felt so sad to see...

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Categories: persists, seasons, old, winter, old,
Form: Sonnet
Silent Piano
My late father 
    played gorgeous music 
on his Steinway 
Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven 
    along with his own compositions
He...

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Categories: persists, father, memory, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fatal Kiss
Time ticks away as a new dawn strokes your splitting heart,
with your mood swings re-writing my emphatic poetical art.
Although the fear of your demons may...

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Categories: persists, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like a Small Wild Grass
Like 
                       ...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persists, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Life
An odyssey through hurdles, yet a blessing it is to dwell on earth,
Aiming for destination beloved, chasing sweet dreams of mirth,
Through successes and failures, amid...

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Categories: persists, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Misty View
Sometimes it gets too steamy
Reality insists
On distorting our perception
As this heartbeat still persists

Sometimes it gets too frosty
When the winter comes to call
We scrape to see...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persists, sorry,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
Dark dull dawn
Sunset sad silhouette
After you’re gone

Pricking pain persists
Grief getting gross
You, still in dreams exist

Lonely long life
Sinking Spirit Subsists
Where, respite lies...

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Categories: persists, life, love, sad,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member There Is a Pain
There is a pain that drives insane
A pain so dark so deep
It robs my breath, it brings on death
And still in Shoal, I weep

There is...

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Categories: persists, pain,
Form: Lyric
Man of the Land
One suspects a matagouri temperament
Upon first glimpsing that weathered face.
Wrinkles extending like braided rivers
Life of tussles and toils, to demonstrate.

No stranger to heat or an...

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Categories: persists, earth, environment, farm, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Models of Reality In Religion
The “existence of God” can’t be proven by Science.
Since man’s reasoning seems to run God off the rails.
There’s the alternate view that “the world just...

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Categories: persists, god, universe, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Fated To Love
Fated to Love


Best to simply weigh the heart with a poppy seed
Counter balance on granite
All its rhythmical surging
Its expeditious life
Amounts to nothing

Better then, not to...

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Categories: persists, loveheart, heart, me, ,
Form: Free verse
Days I Fight
There are just days,
I just want to fade,
no joy can exist,
find a place.

I hide from the world,
keep to myself,
they should never have to see,
the evil...

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Categories: persists, angst
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun Shine
Oh, the sun shines and the wind blows
the crisp, apple-wind, blows,
laughing through the half shorn tresses
of the sugar maple trees.

Oh, the sun shines and the...

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Categories: persists, happiness, hope, naturewinter, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The God Complex
“The God Complex”



His face imprinted 
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words

like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
towards the back of their minds

once-in-a-while...

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Categories: persists, god, i am, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs