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My Insolent Heart
My insolent heart
is audacious.
It dives into your words
Feels your presence,
Makes love to you
Shamelessly. 
My insolent heart 
Knows the truth
That 
you are unreachable.
still 
it ventures around...

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© Red Fiery  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recollects, addiction
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sweats and Sweets
~The Fruit of labour~

A frail body rests upon the bed; silver grey hair spread
on soft pillows; the fan turns lazily as her mind
travels slowly through...

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Categories: recollects, life,
Form: Free verse
Negative People Criticize
"Criticizing others is akin to criticizing God" 
"Moment we are critical of our critic we become a critic"
Quote by Author
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Words pierce the soft heart, stay...

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Categories: recollects, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Purple Pansies
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire
smokestacks, waffles, pansies, people,
and purple sunsets.

            ...

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Categories: recollects, flower,
Form: Rhyme
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I
Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu 
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School 
   (situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes...

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Categories: recollects, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form: Free verse



She Is In Love
A night before I saw her smile
And saw at dawn she smiled again
I saw her she was now in love;
She loved the fairness of the...

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Categories: recollects, romance, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member River of Love
The river flows in a one way ticket
Drew memory of the dreaming man
Followed water level like a picket
In the rainy season, the water spans

Water becomes...

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Categories: recollects, lost love, love, river,
Form: Sonnet
Garden and the Bees
Beauty sets in my wide open eyes
The skies radiance of hue becomes me
I am a flower - I bloom
Colorful flowers transpire in the mind
The troubled...

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© Stacey Law  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recollects, flower, sunshine,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Stop the Development
Swarming like insects
The development is coming
gnats, mosquitoes, and ants
They are destroying all the plants

Their buzzing sound
is more like the cash register going Cha-ching
It matters NOT,...

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Categories: recollects, education, nature, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Moonlight
In my dreams we're dancing
        suspended
            ...

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Categories: recollects, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Sleepiness
Sleepiness

There alone before
my computer
Fighting the sleep
that creeps like
looter
My brain is
sluggish,lids are
dragging
Against my eyeball
that rolls like a
marble..

I poke the keyboard
My fingers sometimes
miss and slip
It takes a...

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Categories: recollects, sleep
Form: Rhyme
Oblivion
Oblivion's a lonely place,
   Where no one wants to be.
   No ladder of success to climb,
   Or bathe in...

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Categories: recollects, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zeal Is Contagious
“The park’s the bestest place I know.
I hope you’ll take me there today.”
Four-year-old Bud would get his way.
His Papa also likes to go
to watch the...

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Categories: recollects, childhood, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Personal History
Everyone is significant in their own perception.
For the eyes recollects life experiences and
Life’s history about one’s inner enlightenment of personal 
recollective of one’s true character...

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Categories: recollects, birth, celebration, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Nizhniy Novgorod's Kremlin*
Above a pulsating arrow of two great Russian rivers,

there, where Oka merges to Volga

and already flows farther downstream, 

to the Caspian sea, 

an ancient, wise...

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Categories: recollects, history, nostalgia, places, song-autumn,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs