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Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popular, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eulogy For God
Oh, Lord! Lest one is asleep,
the purge to kill you,yet again,
is quite deep.
Some, who read your word in
the Bible, re-create it, with myths
that are long...

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Categories: popular, abortion, faith, god, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: popular, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Happy Birthday, Andrea
How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popular, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Journal
Yes, that is the role of the Teacher, as Shams was to
me – showing one ‘who they are’, so they can stop
bleating, crying at night,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popular, devotion, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Welcome To My World -The Cost of Happiness-
~TAKE MY MONEY ~

Crimson Joy, L'Oreal Lips, DOLCE & GABBANA eyewear 
Mascara from beyond LONDON Bridges
Like the pretty face found in front of Vanity Fair
What...

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Categories: popular, abuse, addiction, adventure, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Let My Quill Always Write Even If Unheard
A very wise woman once said I must write just for me.
Let there be no other reason for  e x p r e s...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popular, confidence, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Fathers Immortality
Upon waking up this day, a single tear
Father your eternal immortality 
Still proves wise and gracious
I haven’t been misled by popular opinion
Which should be taken...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: popular, father, father daughter, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member More Than Glam and Glitz
As a young girl growing up in the 50s and 60s, Hollywood’s glamorous and glitzy lifestyle fascinated me. Popular actresses such as Jane Russell, Ava...

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Categories: popular, beauty, family,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member In the Seventies
I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying...

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Categories: popular, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Anger Death and Guilt
LOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILT 

Blog was A young girl who was 
Still at school
Everyone loved Blog, she
Was nobody’s fool,
In fact her peers regarded as...

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Categories: popular, anger, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oft From a Distant Echo, It Is Heard Fifth Poet In My Dedication Series
(1.)  Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series

Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard

At the start comes just a solitary word
oft...

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Categories: popular, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member There Is An Elephant In the Room
The big headlines cause sensation,
Media’s chosen information.
Manipulative, they entomb
the big elephant in the room.

Stress is put on the suggestive
keeping tongue and the mind active.
They sweep...

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Categories: popular, silence,
Form: Kyrielle
Q Is For Quinoa
A is for Avocado, the creamy, green nutritious fat.
B is for Berries, the fruit that keeps your tummy flat.
 
C is for Chia, most nutrient-dense...

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Categories: popular, food, health,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In the Harem of the Flower Kisser
at the break of dawn
a  Hummingbird starts his rounds
 Morning Glory sought

flaunting a red hue -
Mexican Sunflower tempts
looking hot, hot, hot

the Don Juan of...

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Categories: popular, blue, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs