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Premium Member Healing Power of the Drum
your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...

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Categories: ranked, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hello Butterfly
hello                      hello
butterfly  ...

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Categories: ranked, beautiful, color, imagery, insect,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Sundown Meditation
Take a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me

Inhale
Exhale

Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey

Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your eyes

You’re...

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Categories: ranked, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse
Cuckoo
Far away in a
                land torn with war,
  ...

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Categories: ranked, bird, hope, love,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: ranked, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wow Moments
I get it now…

it’s not about
momentous events

it’s about
memorable moments

moments that 
take your breath away

being in the moment
with your whole being

being at one
with the universe

wherever
that may...

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Categories: ranked, appreciation, beauty, happiness, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today I Learn To Be a Widow, Lesson 1
lesson one

i wake up alone
for the first time
the silence is deafening

i want to get up
but every fiber in me
is dead weight

i want to call my...

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Categories: ranked, death, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't Overthink
Go with the flow
Where zephyrs blow
Parallel the weather
Light as a feather
Set it adrift 
Life is a gift
Open your heart
Play up the part
Let your mind soar
Your...

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Categories: ranked, confidence, dream, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And So It Begins
And so it begins
The game of life
The dominos of love
Falling where they may
The timer activated
Fresh out of a box
Learning the rules 
As we go along
No...

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Categories: ranked, destiny, emotions, fun, games,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alone I Walk
I walk and walk
and in my mind
I walk toward
something someone you

I walk and walk
in a motion I wish was soothing
somehow it’s nowhere that I walk
never...

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Categories: ranked, grief, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coming Back Home
C ountry roots beckon regrets of past transgression
O ne-way ticket meant to soothe my innermost obsession
M emories of you not fading with passing of the...

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Categories: ranked, forgiveness, home, love, nostalgia,
Form: Acrostic
Solitude
I wanted to lie down
on the grass idly
and look at the clouds today
with the wind caressing my hair

It felt just like a day long back
when...

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Categories: ranked, love, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stained Glass Rainbow
At high noon mass
	thru colored glass
		a playful sunray dances
	for blessed sunday glances
reflected stained mosaic
hardly looks archaic
	when the rainbow’s set afire
		by heavenly orchestrated choir
	the congregation rejoices
moved...

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Categories: ranked, angel, beautiful, color, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Little Kindness Never Hurts
I’m at my happiest
When my heart overflows
With kindness and gentle compassion
And feel the energy of the universe
Radiating from my heart

I feel my best when I...

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Categories: ranked, appreciation, community, encouraging, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wept
she roams cross the land her heart so bitter blue
leaving behind frosty morning dew
icy veil sadly unkept
laden woe upswept
she speechless
wept
left dreamless
numb regret windswept
no kind soul...

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Categories: ranked, grief, howl, hurt, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs