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Premium Member Malaise In My Heart
There is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repressed, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Solitude Is My Silent Saviour
No one understands the reason for living,
many prefer to receive without giving.
In a world full of selfish behaviour,
solitude has become my silent saviour.

Instruments are repressed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repressed, angst, love, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
A Quill
"Scratch, Quills of God". Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Rhymes scream like cats and wriggle out of
my arms. Words hide and sick. The stanza’s end
comes to dead-end…...

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Categories: repressed, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Journey
Though unconscious we are born
In pains we live, we fade, we die
But life like river flows on
Quickly and slowly we pass bye

The wave, the tide
They...

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Categories: repressed, journey,
Form: Verse
A Psalm of Praise and Worship
If the Lord isn't for me, why do I live?
If the Lord does not bless me, why am I here?
If the Lord isn't for me,...

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Categories: repressed, baptism, future, happiness, life,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Rough Roads To Roam
The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes...

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Categories: repressed, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Land, Your Place, Your Flesh -
Would you crusade to remote regions
in search of that timeless tomb, the one made of seasalt & sandstone,
to towns tempered by the terror of war,...

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Categories: repressed, faith, prayer,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Joy That Sweetly Stays
In our lives, we’ve been rendered feelings
in varying degrees of happiness -
prickles of gladness 
derived from such events as those 
of tasting victory,
of making someone...

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Categories: repressed,
Form: Free verse
Riding My Whims
I no longer love country music
Or Afton, Wyoming just to be the girl
In someone's non-existent dreams
Indulging in a glass of wine
Isn't a thinking session of
Second...

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Categories: repressed, celebration, change, character,
Form: Free verse
If I Had To Paint a Picture of Me Loving God What Would I See
If I had to paint a picture of me loving God what would I see?
would I see a portrait of a person who walks in...

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Categories: repressed, art, faith, life, love,
Form: Ode
A Quivering Heart
A quivering heart beats deep in my chest
I have a soul that will not rest
Until I save my damsel distressed
From the life that holds her...

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Categories: repressed, love, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Seas of Night Potd
I loved sailing upon the blue sea, and I was never too far from it,
As one who knows sweet cravings, is seldom far from chocolates.

In...

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Categories: repressed, adventure, fantasy, nature, night,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Day After Day
You always say hurtful things,
acting like a soul possessed.
And tend to resurrect fears
that time long ago repressed.

You can't relate to pity,
for bullies exploit the meek.
And...

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Categories: repressed, abuse, anger, angst, drug,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Write
I write about the things I know,
The things that give me pleasure.
I write about the things I love,
About the things I treasure.

I write about what...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repressed, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Neon and Romance.
Sodden dripped of midnight words
A slurred plight 
Perhaps of tonight
Broken in the sobering dawn
In this smoky staleness
We meet in false courage
Eluding the touch 
The tenderness...

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Categories: repressed, angst, life, love, time,
Form: Free verse

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