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Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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Categories: portrays, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member As Time Slips By
                 
 Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as...

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Categories: portrays, faith, love, time,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Temporal Shades
In temporal shades of pastel hue
abides a subject on debut.
Upon his brow the pencil bled,
sketching life through words unsaid,
etching strife through hints of blue.
 ...

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Categories: portrays, age, anxiety, art, time,
Form: Rondeau
An Ardent Lover
An ardent lover of words
Of his own is that world.
A crave stretching his soul
Dipping into a plethora of verse
Rising with a fulfilled thirst.
Unpredictable are his...

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Categories: portrays, art, blessing, heart, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandeur of Fall
Poet's ink portrays wonders so profound,
as the last crimson rose of summer fades,
verdant leaves gently float to soggy ground,
weaving a pattern of saffron, beige shades.

Autumn's...

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Categories: portrays, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a...

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Categories: portrays, freedom, girl, history, literature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Story To Tell
A heart read and quoted by many in this lifetime
Battle scars that remain and yet shielded by a peace of mind
Walked several miles and traveled...

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Categories: portrays, dedication, friendship, life, sympathy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Because
I was a fool.

I was a fool searching for reasons why.

Reasons why I
Grin with sudden boy giggles

As if Karma was my DJ,
Playing cotton candy woven...

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Categories: portrays, dream, innocence, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love blooms in four seasons

In my past existence,
circumstance sowed my roots
deep into woods of foreign soil,
slowly I ascended spreading my wings,
yearning to be evergreen,
blossoming in summer with glossy verdant...

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Categories: portrays, analogy, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Painted Lady
I painted a painting
so that you could see
The person I wished
that you could be

Your eyes were pure blue
Just like they are
But the look was near
Instead...

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Categories: portrays, beach, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Stepping Into the Temple
I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...

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Categories: portrays, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to...

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Categories: portrays, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder
Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder 

Striking deeply a painful reminder comes of you now.
Salt falls inside my open wound bringing untold pain.
My soul has one...

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Categories: portrays, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder
Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder 

Striking deeply a painful reminder comes of you now.
Salt falls inside my open wound bringing untold pain.
My soul has one...

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Categories: portrays, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
On the Love For God
What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no...

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Categories: portrays, allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose

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