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Love Recanted
The distance growing 
between us is cold
I've already mourned 
you with out restrain
my heart an out pour 
of disillusions now
magnified through 
bitterness and rage.

I thought...

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Categories: recanted, betrayal, bridal shower, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: recanted, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Take Nothing For Granted
I deferred the words " I love you"
Until the morrows light.
Words, that from my heart,
I felt impressed upon to say.

For sure, "I love you",
Would have...

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Categories: recanted, death, faith, father, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Believe Your Heart
Vows get recanted as passions flounder
on the shoals of betrayal and remorse.
And drifting dreams navigate in darkness
whenever love starts to wander off course.

Beware of lust,...

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Categories: recanted, betrayal, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Brightest of Gems, In Glowing Emerald Forest
Brightest Of Gems, In Glowing Emerald Forest

There was a great tree there, its roots firmly planted
as solid as love vows, those never recanted,
its massive trunk...

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Categories: recanted, appreciation, creation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme



Passionate Love
PASSIONATE LOVE 

Will I find it 
when will I know 
Will I see it 
how will it glow 
Sitting here with patience 
wanting to know...

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Categories: recanted, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Lost
The love we had
The same love we lost

What was given from God,
You soon tossed

Took me for granted
We said goodbye

I wish you'd recanted,
Given some sort of...

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Categories: recanted, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, teen,
Form: Rhyme
The Thing
a cycle in eight parts
with a slightly criminal coda
(quickly recanted)



I - the thing


the thing the thing the thing!

oh the thing

     ...

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Categories: recanted, art,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Thing
a cycle in eight parts
with a slightly criminal coda
(quickly recanted)


copyright T.H.A. Hassan,
the ZKH Foundation for Holistic Human Development
18 Mohammad Saleh Street, Dokki, Cairo, EGYPT
tel/fax 20...

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Categories: recanted, art,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Six
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Six

Archangel Gabriel and His Force of Heavenly Angels
Upon seeing the radiant, almost blinding light as...

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Categories: recanted, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Is There Something You Want To Tell Me
We used to Communicate, Brainstorm, Debate
but I find you've been quiet and distant, of late.

Just what aren't you Saying? What is the good Word?
To find...

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Categories: recanted, silence, words,
Form: Rhyme
For Diane
For Diane

You are young and so alive
and I am old but with the fire still alive

We come from places far apart
and still we connected at...

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Categories: recanted, addiction, recovery from,
Form: Verse
The Trilogy Ends
The brutalized girl breathed her last in faraway Singapore
She met her fate returning home, a couple of weeks ago
To shift the focus of the masses...

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Categories: recanted, angst, death, girl, girl,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tell the Night To Hold Me
I made for you, a castle
     But I built it in the sand
        ...

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Categories: recanted, heartbreak, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Friendship Lost
When times are good friendship blossoms
It fragrances all about
The sweet perfume of love
Let’s all about know
That no ill-will can see the light of day

Animosity can...

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Categories: recanted, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry

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