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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: referenced, lost love, lust, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Play On
*”If music be the food of love, play on.”
Play hard, but with a sweet guitar, play softly too.
Each note you play, I’ll sing along with...

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Categories: referenced, love,
Form: Quatrain
Satan and Almighty God- Collab
You Suffocate Me with Darkness…

 ~Satan~

Lawless, deceiver

Perverting, accusing, murdering 

Fallen angel, ruler of darkness, marriage destroyer
 
You stalk, you lie, you destroy, you steal my...

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Categories: referenced, faith, uplifting, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sequestered In My Cozy Nook
I have known:
   of wise detectives catching crooks
   of "Thought Police" revising books
   a shipwrecked family named Robinson
 ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: referenced, books,
Form: Rhyme
Obituary
Never heard Jesus
referenced as "the late Jesus"
Hmmm, not once, have you?...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: referenced, history
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Two Poems About the Iroquois
Ruler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist

The thundering waters of the Niagara.
Voice of the mighty spirits of the water.
The natives believed and yearly sacrificed
a white...

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Categories: referenced, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Speared Again
Tell me why, you dratted bard,
you have to come and spoil my yard?
All these centuries lying dead,
yet there, your voice, oft in my head.
So many...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: referenced, appreciation, humor, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Contract - Part 1
"Soul Contract - Part 1"


“I Am”. The All Seeing Eye. The Pineal Gland.
Perhaps God exists in all of us - the Great “I Am” exists...

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Categories: referenced, dark, destiny, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Holy Bible - the Quatern Style
~ The  Holy  Bible ~
 (Quatern)


 It tells the beginning of man
 How  God  created all from start
 He made the...

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Categories: referenced, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beary Tales Episodes 1-6, Poet's Notes
(Remembering Innocence)


Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing!...

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Categories: referenced, adventure, best friend, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story...

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Categories: referenced, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Verboten Netiquette
Methinks I inadvertently got entangled
without deliberate intent, sans whirled
wide web, albeit courtesy of yours truly,
who (flattered upon at least one maybe
more'n one Prose.com subscriber click-

king...

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Categories: referenced, appreciation, fate, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving Thanks
Favors taken for granted, often will cease to be granted.
People won't keep giving, giving, and more giving,
If the receivers aren't willing to at least recognize
The...

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Categories: referenced, thanks,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member As We Imagine Gods, Venus and Mars
As We Once Imagined The Gods, Venus And Mars

    Universe eternally unending
    expanding space infinity sending,
   ...

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Categories: referenced, art, creation, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Polyculturing Education
Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a...

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Categories: referenced, culture, deep, destiny, earth
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things