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Forgotten Words
It’s hard to keep on writing
when you know your words
never reach quite deep enough—
fail again to plumb prosaic depths
and render speechless those of
greater wit and...

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Categories: perspired, poets,
Form: Free verse



He's a Carpenter
Surrounded by various profession
Business, medicine, soldiership and education
It's heaven-sent and planned  for Him to labour
To work manually with strength and effort
True hardships; entails a...

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Categories: perspired, career, christian, creation, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Jobs Contest: Strawberry Fields Forever - - Not
There aren’t too many jobs that kids can do
when they are in their pre-teen years, but we
knew of a place to work where berries grew.
To...

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Categories: perspired, jobs,
Form: Sonnet
Ode To Joy
Like morning light break forth of eastern skies
And astound with beauty the waking eyes
So did my heart before you rose to praise
A seraph in the...

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Categories: perspired, happiness, hope, loveme, beauty,
Form: Ode
Winter's Perfect Heat
Winter's Perfect Heat 


“Snowflakes gather in crystalline drfitings”

Lifting your hair, kissing the nape of your neck
Warm flesh waits on tippy toe desires
Lips brush skin, lower...

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Categories: perspired, good night, sensual,
Form: Free verse



Winter's Passion'D Heat
Winter’s Passion’d Heat 
 

“Snowflakes gather in crystalline drfitings”

Lifting your hair, kissing the nape of your neck
Warm flesh waits on tippy toe desires
Lips brush skin,...

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Categories: perspired, love, sensual, winter,
Form: Free verse
My Economic Woes Doze .
The Soup kitchen's queue are in line .
The economy , banjaxed and dyin' .
When Lehmans went bust
The bankers just cussed
So now , " Buddy who...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perspired, funny
Form: Limerick
My Nubian Queen
Do you see your King?
perspired
breathing
musk in your arms

Come my Queen 
stirred
Mocha
flower of desire

Come
cocooned in silk
morning star
your skin on my sheets

Enter my Queen 
we are
the most...

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Categories: perspired, black african american, desire,
Form: Free verse
My Queen
Do you see your King?
perspired
breathing
Musk in your arms..

Come my Queen
stirred
mocha
flower of desire..

Come
cocooned in silk
morning star
your skin on my sheets...
~ ~ ~ ~ ~...

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Categories: perspired, desire, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sabbath Morning Harvest
Who am I today?
as I rise out to play
at being again
this ego I  entertained yesterday
with passion plays
creation stories
epic one-day opera
folding into Northern Autumn yet...

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Categories: perspired, culture, earth, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Things I Carry
I carry the immense weight of potential with me.

I carry the knowledge that death exists, and that we are all born to die.

I carry the...

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Categories: perspired, courage, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Den of the She-Wolf
Perhaps we have loved before
in the Lupanar of Pompei
goddess of Priapus
the overseer
of the fertile garden
commanded me.

We perspired upon pillows
stuffed with reeds
feathers and straw
most unwitting lady
whispered...

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Categories: perspired, beauty, desire, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
A Taxpayer Speaks
A TAXPAYER SPEAKS

Years ago when filing tax forms reared its proliferating death’s head
I cursed, perspired, and thought about moving to a foreign homestead
As a low-income...

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perspired, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hard Work Is Honest Living
Take it to heart when someone says,
" Hard work is honest living! "
My ma used to say it in a convincing voice,
when we gathered around...

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Categories: perspired, faith, family, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: ABC
Commander Clarke's Heart
Silhouettes ceased the day of pain.
They stooped over twisted remains
Of burnt bodies and of charred skin
Over Grounders, arrows, knives and kin.
And tears soaked the blackened...

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Categories: perspired, anxiety, conflict, courage, fire,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs