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Premium Member Pilfered Soulless House
*Image of Best Collapse by Giphy.

Pilfered Soulless House

Pilfered dawn occasions a soulless house, bruised
appeals innocence whilst porch screen once tended,
concedes whispers of dust calm quest...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pilfered, farewell, fate, house, imagery,
Form: Sapphic stanza



When the Flowers of Youth Fell
When the Flowers of Youth Fell

Winter stayed late that year
courting Spring with a fury.
Beautiful gifts of snow
and dazzling ice, he gave her.
It was during such...

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Categories: pilfered, seasons, time, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Token
Be the halo of moon in a starless sky
Be the angel of smiles for tearful eyes
A beacon of hope in despair of grief 
A lighthouse...

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Categories: pilfered, giving, perspective,
Form: Verse
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: pilfered, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Bronzed Edge of Twilight
I'd bloomed from the warm glow in his eyes.
He had been my sunlight when darkness loomed.
His arms protected me, for he was my safe haven,
but...

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Categories: pilfered, death, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Halloween Moon
Most nights I come and go in silence
offering temptation to a lover’s glance

Tonight I am the eerie guardian
of children in a mindless sugar-trance.

My narrow grin...

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Categories: pilfered, halloween, moon,
Form: Personification
The Secret the Wood Fairy Knows
In deep forest with rotten leaves and wood
Where the sun’s light finds it hard to reflect.
Where wind won't blow even if it could
below dense undergrowth,...

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Categories: pilfered, faith, philosophylight, fairy, light,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Cows Roamed Sunlit Green Pastures
Cows roamed sunlit green pastures hugging the river banks
Where villagers of meager means cultivated their tiny farms
Living happily amid bare necessities trusting destiny's hand.

That place,...

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Categories: pilfered, farm, people, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts of Nothingness
Thoughts of nothingness embrace the moonlight
caress the emptiness of pilfered light
drape it across the meadows in dull gray
to light a path for lover’s gone astray...

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Categories: pilfered, life, metaphor,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Speared Again
Tell me why, you dratted bard,
you have to come and spoil my yard?
All these centuries lying dead,
yet there, your voice, oft in my head.
So many...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pilfered, appreciation, humor, writing,
Form: Rhyme
These Poet Eyes
As the ink dries swiftly,
peer into the invisible thoughts
these poet eyes see

Blink  blink

The world is on the brink,
following dire voices
that speak darkly

Many underground secret...

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Categories: pilfered, introspection, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Caradog's Fight
Faithful companion, Caradog, without necessity 
Habitat fed his needs, our bond rapidly developed 
Fierce competent hunter amazingly adopted me
Heritage unable to continue, thylacine near relic...

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Categories: pilfered, animal, appreciation, bereavement, best
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetless
Blank pages strewed high on my desk in pain,
For now, I heard the squelch of death again,
It had echoed from my emptied inkwells,
As dying words...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pilfered, allegory, analogy, fate, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pilfered, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Absconding Muse
My muse blew a fuse
Without excuse fealty did recuse
In jilting fashion without compassion 
Tendered passion did stingily ration
Lofty discourse from pen did divorce
With no remorse...

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Categories: pilfered, funnymetaphor,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs