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Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I

When daylight shuts her weary eye;

Down the streets where beggars sleep

And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.

On streets that...

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Categories: rejected, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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Categories: rejected, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Road Crash of Words
Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

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Categories: rejected, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Please
~PLEASE~
 
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
 
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song! 
Don't worry mommy,...

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Categories: rejected, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Butterfly
Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...

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Categories: rejected, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Lonely Ruin
Etched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...

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Categories: rejected, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rejected, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grumpy Goes To Heaven
 
"Grief is the price we pay for love " 

              ...

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Categories: rejected, cat, death, pets,
Form: Personification
Moment of Truth
I was walking with two friends of mine,
when we saw a woman
who was tall, beautiful and black
They spoke lewd to her,
so she didn't speak back
In...

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Categories: rejected, perspective, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its stream  

Saturating me with...

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Categories: rejected, desire, destiny, passion, true
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Penny For Your Thoughts
So many pennies,
lost in the system,
rejected, neglected,
dejected -
cursed by '99' price tags,
a charity box favourite,
nobody wants nor waits for.

So many forgotten pennies,
lost on the streets...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rejected, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: rejected, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And So I Wrote a Poem
One day when I was walking 
inside a wood alone,
admiring the autumn trees,
I found a big flat stone.
It beckoned me to sit awhile -
 ...

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Categories: rejected, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: rejected, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Response of a Harried Housewife To Her Spouse
“The
children
are always
interrupting.
You never have time
for me,” her husband whined
as he dropped his dirty clothes
right there on the floor by the bed.
Trying not to roll her...

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Categories: rejected, wife, work, me,
Form: Etheree

Book: Shattered Sighs