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Premium Member Adieu
Just days ago golden grasses waved in the stronger breeze of late summer, a preview of the autumn winds to come. The clover and alfalfa...

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Categories: preview, autumn, october, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: preview, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Just For Giggles
For those who don't read blogs or know of Jan's successful first book, I've written a limerick for her and included it in my comment...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preview, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Star Light
 high on life
the tippy top
a star
aglow
Dayspring
of everything
a candle
lit
timeless
and
perpetual

the earth
received
HIS
great worth
placed
in
a mother’s embrace
a babe

how dare
we
lick our fingers
and
extinguish 
eyes so bright
as if
we alone
could
create a star
of
our own

^
<...

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Categories: preview, christian, christmas,
Form: Didactic
Listing To Port
There was a fellow riding a certain train,
And he posted an unpopular refrain,
In it he said, the innocents are dead,
With politicians and voters to blame.

To...

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Categories: preview, introspection
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: preview, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Haiku #2
an autumn preview-
snowberries sunbathing in
a Summer peepshow...

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Categories: preview, seasonsautumn,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member It's An Amazon Out There
The travel agent said adventure was calling,
In a lush paradise of beauties enthralling!

No harm would befall us, with a capable guide;
This Amazon tour would be...

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Categories: preview, adventure, bird, fantasy, green,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lightening
Atmospheric show
Electrical veins preview
Thunderous applause




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Categories: preview, nature
Form: Haiku
The Chaos of Us
You  look  at  me  and       I   g e  t   ...

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Categories: preview, africa, emotions, imagery, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Africa Has An Awesome Vibe
AFRICA HAS AN AWESOME VIBE

Africa with no shadow of doubt has an enticing aurA           ...

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Categories: preview, love,
Form: Acrostic
I Know Monday
I know Monday
I walked through your door
to see what you had in store

Everything they say about you is true
Your the movie trailer
for what the week...

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© Chris Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: preview, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Atmospheric Inferno
Boisterous clouds are churning, roiling air-mass in warm updraft
Declaring on callous inhabitants of earth, a dark ferocious war 
Manifesting malevolent force, imposing anger on spatial...

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Categories: preview, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Bristle Cone Pine
While wandering thru the forest pines
                   ...

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Categories: preview, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse
In Soft Tongues
You think fields are so lovely?
You think as this snow falls
furious that it will give up
its words to the likes of
you?  It would just...

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Categories: preview, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs