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Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: reference, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Toilet Bowl Committee
Toilet Bowl Committee (aka: Uptown Hood)

A lavatory confinement
my$h!tdontstinkcomode.com
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If you want to moderate this place, pick up the pace
From the mouth down to the @$$
Your so...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reference, abuse, anger, angst, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...

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Categories: reference, lost love, lust, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rain Over Vietnam
There is the calm before the rain
It’s almost silent all around
The clouds expectant in the sky
Foreboding birds are homeward bound.

The soldiers stare at looming clouds
There...

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Categories: reference, rain, war,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Maria Down Under
There’s endless miles of golden sandy beaches
Sparkling aqua waters as far as the eye can see
Gods and Goddesses frolic au naturel down under
Here’s where Heaven...

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Categories: reference, beach, lust, satire, vacation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Other Self
( Repost )

Somehow, her eyes expand with the disobedient sky
and there, she senses urchins filling water on the lake
her feet and thighs slide up changing...

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Categories: reference, fantasy, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: reference, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
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: reference, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Aloha Spirit
Aloha Spirit

Sol, with his golden crown, greets me each morning
within divine rays extending out over emerald hills
and valleys that absorb his warmth of abiding light.

View...

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Categories: reference, bird, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Free verse
Love's Music
Love’s Music

If music be the food of love, play on;
play on, oh my Beloved.
Let the sweet melody of your song
fill the dark realms of night...

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Categories: reference, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Erupting Emotions
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Categories: reference, abuse, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet For Kelly
SONNET FOR KELLY

The Spring has come a little late this year
Siberian winds and rain have chilled the soul
Though calendar proclaimed that April’s here
No tiny leaves...

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Categories: reference, celebration,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member O' Cenobite, Dar'Est Thy Soul Await
O' Cenobite, Dar'est Thy Soul Await

Alas! By what right is such assailing
amidst uproar, then half-truths a'telling
Does not morn gift upon grass falling dew
yet truth perseveres...

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Categories: reference, creation, humanity, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All That I Am
You know me as a poet, and writer of poems sad,
I take poetic license, violating rules and conventions;
telling a story using figurative language, I share,
...

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Categories: reference, art, books, life, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Wisdom Download
In the middle of the Universe, I stand-
my mind attempting to comprehend
the scope and wonder
exposed upon these printed pages
within this book of astronomy and space.

One...

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Categories: reference, space, stars, universe, world,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things