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Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: prompt., desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: prompt., deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Glide Above the Sea
To be a bird and glide above the sea.
How wondrous that would be! To soar so high
amidst tranquility while wheeling free
above the currents in my...

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Categories: prompt., sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: prompt., angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Muses In Gold
To glide with inspiration above quilted clouds
 Where birds so often soar
 Glimpse a sunset hued in gold
 With many colors to adore 
 
...

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Categories: prompt., muse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love Endearing
Love is an impulse fueled by the heart,
A stimulating prompt eliciting response
Invoking affinity from halo of its soul~
Sense it, feel it, touching depth of core;
Harmonious,...

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Categories: prompt., love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Catharsis
Tears of the past invoke frozen footprints
When fears rekindle flares of dire misery
Feeling the ache, straining blood streams
As wrinkles pop up swelling deep worries,

Holding dialogue...

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Categories: prompt., deep, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Moon Child
I’m lost within words 
   unwritten between 
     pastel pages of the past, 
Yet I weave lyrical love 
...

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Categories: prompt., deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Promise of the Pomegranates
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
where a heart is free and the sky is wide
where time is slow like a rivers flow
and the crow...

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Categories: prompt., hope, nature, seasons, symbolism,
Form: Lyric
Gilded Sun: Silvered Moon
"The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, the musing moon illumine pastures dim, and afterwards a new nativity for all who slept the...

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Categories: prompt., moon, sun,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member When a Child Is Born
No words can express my elation at becoming a mother
Show my tears of joy on that perfect wintery morn
Go and show my parents our tiny...

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Categories: prompt., birth, growing up, moving
Form: Lento
Premium Member Onslaught
#One should be cautious in starting a war, but 
once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly#

     #Quote by Hirohito circa...

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Categories: prompt., allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flash Dance
Beneath the shade of pinnate leaves
I catch a glimpse, a swirling haze...
an agile penché – a dash  
of graceful pirouettes. 
Then like a flash,...

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Categories: prompt., wind,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Reader of the Stars - Collaboration
A reader of the stars am I. I’ve looked
into my crystal ball. Guess what I saw?
The woman of your dreams! You will be hooked
because her...

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Categories: prompt., love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How To Write a Love Poem
A love poem
                How do you write a love poem

...

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Categories: prompt., love, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things