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Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: proof, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Think of You - Where You Bloom - 4
A transparent melody paints the walls
in the coloured scent of fresh linen.

The changing of sheets in the morning air
can not erase our dance from evening...

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Categories: proof, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: proof, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proof, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Psalm
In changing of the seasons that go on

unceasingly, from winter until fall;

in each day's path from day until the dawn -

I see so much, yet...

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Categories: proof, creation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Terra Incognita
Peering beyond reach of human capacity
I revolve around the sun in a solar orbit,
Looking deep in space for origins of bygone
Going way beyond anyone has...

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Categories: proof, science, space, stars, universe,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Chimera
Bellerophon was sent for by king Lobates of Lycia
And given the dangerous task of slaying the Chimera
A fierce creature like a lion with a goats...

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Categories: proof, animal, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member History Rising From the Sea
Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth Century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth’s history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones
To greet early...

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Categories: proof, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: proof, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member I Drew a Heart
I can't watch a happy ending,
Guy gets the gal,
Girl gets her pal,
I can't do it with out crying.

Maybe I'm like you,
maybe you cry too.
I'll tell...

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Categories: proof, lost love,
Form: Free verse
If You Really Knew Me
If you Really Knew Me
By Kevin Robey
Febraury 16, 2013

If you really knew me, you’d see through these lies
The smiles and laughs, can’t conceal my eyes
You...

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proof, dark, death, depression, emo,
Form: Rhyme
The Preacher Man
His narrow eyes, misguided lies
Misguide his narrow plan,
To cleanse the world from demons, he
Was called The Preacher Man.

“I see no proof, I hear no truth!
Your...

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Categories: proof, peoplechildren,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Hero
I hear them say,                                          ...

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Categories: proof, food, snow, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member What Is Love - What Is Love
What is love? What is love? ‘Tis a word often heard.
“Unconditional love” oftentimes is absurd
because there are many who seem so capricious.
Tossed around is the...

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Categories: proof, love,
Form: Rhyme
Yet Not Broken By the Blues
....in retrospect
There were mirrors  there
Behind it, where all the Jews would hide
How can someone blame the black despair?
All You were, was a mirror over...

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Categories: proof, anti bullying, holocaust, mirror,
Form: Free verse

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