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Premium Member The Price of Free Will
Medicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted, 
God provides each one a life...

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Categories: repaid, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Rush of Emotions
She sat beside the waterfall
where gushing thoughts cascade,
like tears that flowed along her cheeks,
her heart set to invade.

He left alone for pastures new.
A scribbled note...

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Categories: repaid, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Might Have Been
As we age we regret words of anger and spite
That were heard and remembered and can't be unsaid.
The remarks we thought clever or proved we...

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Categories: repaid, heartbreak, introspection, loss, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nature's Advocate
Creatures of feathers, fur and fins
gather ‘round to touch her heart.
Somehow their instincts assure them
she will strive to offer protection.

Wee winged one that fell from...

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Categories: repaid, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Justice

A poet's flowing poems uplift the souls
     of men and sing of legends small and great,
     of...

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Categories: repaid, betrayal, hate, poems, poets,
Form: Italian Sonnet



A Be-Witching Tale
smoke billowed from her boiling pot
a spell for ages she had sought
a special treat
for kids to eat
some pickled plums so teeth won't rot

but children laughed...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repaid, candy, children, forgiveness, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Discribe the World
Were not men strong
and women beautiful
Children adorable
and old men wise

Were not tyrants evil
and angels good
Dogs faithful
and prophets misunderstood

Were not the stars named
and world divided
Hearts claimed
as...

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Categories: repaid, allegory,
Form: Quatrain
The Kiss That Has No End
After The Kiss By Gustav Klimt

Tomorrow is not here today
My love, today is our last day. Let us lay 
Together in the cool of night....

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Categories: repaid, art, goodbye, grief, romantic
Form: Free verse
Hitlers Hell
no end to this neverending sentence...just a sour note and a few mad quotes from the afterlife
afterlife? more like ants in the afterbirth...once a mighty...

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Categories: repaid, deathme, me,
Form: Ballad
The Devil & the Kennedys (Part Two)
His voice the hiss of serpents,
he acknowledged the pact unmade,
but now he was here to tell him
how the debt would be repaid.

"All your sons, and...

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Categories: repaid, death, political
Form: Rhyme
A Commitment To Love
She could have hardened her heart to Love,
Her list of disappointments would have hardened lesser hearts,
Instead she cloaked herself with Love,
Enough to keep out the...

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Categories: repaid, analogy, angel, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Personification
Twenty-Five
I dreamed a lot when I was young,
my mind still wanders to this day,
so much I wanted to achieve,
so much that I yearned to stay.

Was...

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Categories: repaid, business, dream, how i
Form: Narrative
Life Goes On
First it was seizures
And then I was blind
Sight was returned
And then I was fine.

Then came the cancer
But I was not afraid
Just a little annoying
Then life...

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Categories: repaid, death, life, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'Ve So Much To Be Thankful For
I’m thankful that I picked up my pen to write,
it’s got me through some tough times in my life;
when life issues were giving me terrible...

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Categories: repaid, friendship, poetry, tribute, writing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Whim Justice
What's happened here?
I asked, 
I asked again...
and where to reclaim.

For I've lost something precious (so dear to me)
and someone or something's to blame
and will I...

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Categories: repaid, extended metaphor, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs