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Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day She Disappeared
A collaboration between Paul Callus & Carolyn Devonshire
 
Where were you when she disappeared?
Is the moment caught in your mind?
Were you nervous as the day...

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Categories: reaper, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Categories: reaper, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Dancing With Death
A raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heartbeats
Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to...

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Categories: reaper, angst, care, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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Categories: reaper, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorientation
Somethings are best 
said through blank
scriptures in sheer 
silence, but pulling the 
violin strings of
a poet strumming
to personify pain, 
with tempests of 
torment rushing 
through...

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Categories: reaper, angst, emotions, gothic, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Owl
Sitting by her open window
Was a girl deep in thought,
Lost within a book of Poe
A perfect poem she sought

With a curious eye
He watches her pen,
For...

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Categories: reaper, bird, moon, mystery, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: reaper, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Vampire
For I am death, the personification of pure evil,
The grand godfather, of legions of unnumbered generations.
Behold thy disciples, baptized beneath my crimson waters,
Of blood.
Then reanimated...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reaper, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things