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Premium Member Are Flowers For Picking
Are Flowers for Picking?

I question myself,
silently standing beside
the quaint wooden kiosk 
in the centre of the square.
My eyes scan the freshly 
picked assortment of roses,...

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Categories: picking, flower,
Form: Prose Poetry



There Is No Telling the Things You Might Find
Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...

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Categories: picking, fun, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: picking, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: picking, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: picking, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Reason I Believe
 

life can be a ravaged garden
and I have been through a lot in mine
living through tons of grief and sorrow
    ...

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Categories: picking, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Toddler Sky
-Toddler Sky-

Down where I sleep, 
You hold me, embrace my every way
The Marks up on my skin
You caress, taking away from the ugliness

Watching the simple...

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Categories: picking, blue, body, childhood, how
Form: Free verse
Sharon Weimer
Though we’ve never met 
I comprehend your beautiful words
I feel your pleasant persona
Never a mean word to be said
I ache from your kindness 
Making others...

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Categories: picking, dedication, friendship, happiness, thank
Form: Free verse
Premium Member on such divine evenings -
aye …

on such
divine evenings, thus,
are perfect odes not freely spun?
the Perseids, dancing their
jocund jigs -
capricious, evanescent stripes of
golden ire under a tapestry
of wonders …
watching rapt,...

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Categories: picking, august, eve, joy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
An Unfolded Whisper
~

A lilac endeavor
of promised importance
came strolling along
on a path in the sun
Its fragrance unfurling
this side of September
when springtime was singing
for winter was done
With meadowlarks chatting
in...

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Categories: picking, fun, garden,
Form: Rhyme
The Edge of Romance
~
Dressed in a shade that the sun couldn’t find,
all on a cool summer’s eve
Seeking a scarf only meant to unwind,
wrapped in an untangled weave
Picking a...

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Categories: picking, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...

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Categories: picking, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bruises and Broken Bones
May God bless all, of the children, 
and ease their mortal pain.
I trust that you have your reasons, 
and this life has not been in...

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Categories: picking, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
A Homeless Man Named Robbie
Away to Vermont on a Dr's appointment. Coming back and riding the Ferry to New York my wife Judy and I decided to stop off...

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Categories: picking, heartbroken, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time Machine
Ride with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...

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Categories: picking, nostalgiamom, me, night, candy,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things