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Premium Member I Live For the Day - POTW - A Visual Video Poem
POTW 12th May 2019

Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...

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Categories: previous, hope, inspiration, motivation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Daydreamer
"The Dream Manipulator"

A wish upon the stars I see
Magical moments with sweet surrenders
Embrace the twinkle notes
My lid slip into an everlasting feel~  In trance,...

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Categories: previous, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Flawless Gems - Lei
A rainbow took my breath away
Whilst on a train one summers day

Her vibrant arc I was in awe
Though folk beside me never saw

With heads bowed...

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Categories: previous, appreciation, nature, rainbow, technology,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and...

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Categories: previous, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Insanity Music
Last year, her imagination went double
So she ignored her previous schedule.
She put all her dreams inside of clear jars,
Decorated with different, assorted stars.

She believed if...

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Categories: previous, change, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: previous, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
4 In the Morning
At 3am you become your own philosopher, categorizing
the different genres of humans and wondering
if you fall even remotely close to anyone on the spectrum.
You debate...

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© Whirl Wind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: previous, good night, loneliness, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pathos
Nobody observes her leaving her room
wearing just her nightdress and red felt carpet slippers
Shuffling silently she slips out of the front door onto the street
Rivulets...

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Categories: previous, dark, memory, old, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's My Birthday and I'Ll Cry If I Want To - Emotive Poem
I visited mum today 
as I do almost every day

She greeted me with open arms

And then says

‘I didn’t think you’d come ...
I thought you had...

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Categories: previous, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: previous, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls
Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls

I shall weave you, dear reader, words true and sincere
tho' will not be as great as those woven...

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Categories: previous, beauty, dedication, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Solemn Knights of Light
Do not
despair my friend,
there is still hope for a better world,
for us to make:
kinder,
nobler,
juster

for

I discern,
far on the horizon of time,
the dawning of a new era,
an...

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Categories: previous, love, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
Teats of Love
From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life,...

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Categories: previous, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Field At Sunset
Here is a flowered field laid before me.
So vast and green,
it shimmers
like the
sea.
This
sea of
pretty green
swims in my eyes.
I’m drowning in sunset’s last yellow rays.

Sept. 28,...

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Categories: previous, sun,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse
Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse

Sonnet I

I saw morn's soft hands stretching to touch bright moonlight
Is but a fleeting blink betwixt man's death and birth
Dark...

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Categories: previous, art, creation, dedication, deep,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs