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Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: quotation, introspection,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Happy Pill Plea Poem and a Story
I reach out for my happy pill
To make the raging pain be still
My day with pseudo cheer to fill
To live, I need to find the...

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Categories: quotation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Contest Consternation
Do you ever write….just to write
Just to let your heart explode
Into a kaleidoscope of word colors
Embellishing the page of someone's life?

Does everything have to be...

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Categories: quotation, community, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Writer
The candle burns down long into the night
Its life waning in a flickering flame
As I etch these ink stains of black on white
On pages that...

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Categories: quotation, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Punctuation Crisis
Un-nerved by formal sentencing assemblies,
Marks and Words, bound by conjunctive amenity.
The tried beliefs that short cuts speed words into action.
Made stuffy Old School feel out...

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Categories: quotation, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Villanelle: If You Haven'T Had That, What Have You Had
Villanelle : If you haven't had that, what have you had*

If you haven't had your life, what have you had
In fear of what lies beyond...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quotation, death, happiness, life, time,
Form: Villanelle
A Theoretical Assumption Into the Causation of Earth's Rotation
1000 miles per hour scientists have calculated the Earth’s rotation
And 25000 miles in 24 hours according to their quotation
They say it is the distance from...

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Categories: quotation, funnypeople, change, earth, love,
Form: Rhyme
Imagination
Close your eyes and use your 
imigination
What if the world showed an 
indication 
that jesus was really satan
Itd be the biggest revelation
But what would happen...

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Categories: quotation, how i feel
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh, Writing Poetry
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: quotation, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Sweet Scent
A re rose doth comfort a faint heart,
When love lingers 'ere life departs.

Inspired by the 1597 quotation of William Langham ,herbalist....

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Categories: quotation, lost love, nature
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member As
As fog saturates every living thing
Penetrating dampness coats trees and shrubs, flowers
Here in my aloneness my open heart bring
And I know upon me your grace...

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Categories: quotation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One More Verse of Joy
Thanks I would say for the chance to create,
Dreams to elate, and fantasies to stargaze;
Recalling fondly the fun themes of contests
Which frequently I set free...

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Categories: quotation, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Way Or N A
Often, I enter a contest
I enter the ones I like best
But one sponsor said
Write stood on your head
I moved on to check out the rest

Another...

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Categories: quotation, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Road To Lovejoy - Piano For the Self Taught - Part 2
"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 2)


His name was
Flight Left-Tennant V.C.Burton,
or "Victor Charlie Bravo", when he
got pulled over by the cops,...

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Categories: quotation, dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
The Educated Man
"He can sit in a room, and not perish"*
Or might he stand upon the deck,
release the dove, and weep for years,
not for its loss,
nor for...

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Categories: quotation, education, dance, dance, may,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs