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Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: recourse, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet



The Bigotry That Remains, Part Ii
...But there exists a much broader hate,
half the species, you see, do not rate.
I’m talking, of course, about the men,
how we’re seen as less next...

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Categories: recourse, america, culture, discrimination, political,
Form: Rhyme
A New Start
Plans for life at prolonged range
Where everything is glebe strange. 

No more strain prompt from the past
I have concealed it fully at long last. 

Memories...

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Categories: recourse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fighter
As beams through blinds half-open softly play
on mottled skin, and helpless, she depends
on doctors and on nurses, none allay
her growing agony that never ends.
 
Her...

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Categories: recourse, death, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Awake Sweet Stolen Dream
       "Awake Sweet Stolen Dream"



I wandered outside my conscious element of thought
drifting into wonderlust of dreamland sequences like photographs
as...

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Categories: recourse, love, heart, sweet, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member I Always Believed
I always believed
at some point in time
due to some hidden
moral rhythm and rhyme...
a word triggered memory
would rob you
of that tranquility
that you've wrapped
around yourself
tightly
leaving no room
for...

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Categories: recourse, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Gold Refined
Unstable
Uneven ground
When you sit on a fault
For a heartbreak makes your faith
falter.

Restore
A broken trail
Requires sunshine and rain
Water cleansing the heart that needs
Warm rays.

Resource
From high above
Be...

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Categories: recourse, inspirational, life, recovery from...,
Form: Cinquain
Why Vote?
why are our tax dollars being spent on crippled
and paralyzed drug hoods?
why are we supporting teenage girl having babies 
and not trying to do any...

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Categories: recourse, introspection, life, philosophy, social,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Life's Second Chance
Of chances lost and memories I've wept
     As misty silhouettes dance from heart to mind
     When once...

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Categories: recourse, happiness, life, religious,
Form: Sonnet
Goodbye
Goodbye
Such a lonely, sad word
Sometime there is no recovery
No recourse
Just the inevitable 

We say it so casually
Then turn away
Expecting the other to be
But eventually, ...

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Categories: recourse, absence, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
The Sins of Our Fathers
The sins of our fathers cast such long and unremorseful shadows
   Leaving in its quake such a painful sting as only God would...

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Categories: recourse, caregiving, childhood, family, father,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Door Is Open
The door is open

Unable to pair,
cold hearts need repair,
by love’s healing balm,
ushering deep calm.

How may we begin,
to invite joy in,
if our fist is clenched
and heart...

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Categories: recourse, love, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Before I Knew Your Name
Before I knew your name, you spoke to me. 
Before I learned the contours of your face, 
or came to know your talents, or the...

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Categories: recourse, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dissecting the Declaration 2
Herein lies the identity of their enemy
Herein lies the description of the abuses
Herein lies the claims against their tyrant
Herein lies the picture of their fixed...

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Categories: recourse, america, celebration, july,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Suffering and Death of Jesus
Searching vainly, the dark enthralled with death, 
Moral fervor and forthrightness deep breath.
In utter silence, stealth into its depths 
Drawing breath, soon all His knowledge...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recourse, abuse, angst, jesus,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs