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Premium Member IN THE SHADOW OF SUNLIGHT
...Pete Kovacs was a cop based in Cyprus, a small mid-western town
Nothing much happened with regards to crime from sunup to sundown
But on the 4th of June a couple came in to report their daughte......

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Categories: requesting, america, child, fishing, missing,
Form: Narrative
Thought Changer
...Catching sight of unwanted reflection 
through my eyes I observe my murky mind
lifeless, inactive, defying action
just a blank canvas, raw, pure, unrefined,

desire to inject substantial color 
......

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: requesting, beauty, change, color,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member speechless -
...
 - breath blushes blue between us ...

you ask the question
THAT question
so, you're requesting rationality, lucidity
when you stand before me dressed in pure starlight
ONLY starlight, wi......

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Categories: requesting, metaphor, night, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Iii
...Oakland County MI                   Democrats                             Republicans
20.  1,258,474              20.  434,148         56.24%            325,971      42.22%
16.  1,251,027          ......

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Categories: requesting, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pure White Cream, On Mother Nature's Welcoming Ground
...Pure White Cream, On Mother Nature's Welcoming Ground

Cream of winter's desserts, wide blankets- fallen snows,
balms for child sadness, beauty in splendor that shows.

Where resides better memo......

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Categories: requesting, celebration, childhood, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poets Mornimg Prayer
...A Poet’s Morning Prayer
                          8/24/2023


       Father, in heaven, let this day in totality be.
       One in which, I give to others, and you are proud of me.

       On ......

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Categories: requesting, feelings, god, inspirational, poetess,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Paths We Choose
...The Paths We Choose 
   by Edmund Siejka

When I was a young writer
I read all the greats
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yeats, James Joyce
And so on
I could write like them I said
So I felt......

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Categories: requesting, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Grand American Tradition
...Voting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner, 
purpose achieved, 
garnering my three by five inch American fla......

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Categories: requesting, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope Awaits
...Here,  I lie motionless like the tint of  ocean's breath. A roulette
of fading stars glistens in tidal whisper of night,
and the incredibly sentient call of migrant birds wing
on ribs of leaves wh......

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Categories: requesting, imagination,
Form: Haibun
84 Charing Cross Road
...It did not cost a fortune 
and gave her so much joy
I sent a book 
to a lovely friend 
‘twas second hand
though good as new
   
I love the odour 
      I love the look
          I love to ho......

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Categories: requesting, books, giving, love, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blank Page
...
I have no idea what compelled me
To wonder what my future held
The craze about finding my tomorrows
To view delivers meld

So I decided to decipher my wants
To a Highland Seer I went
The des......

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Categories: requesting, death, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Declined
...Declined 


Laughing, only to hide the tears,
now gathering in the corners of my mouth,
drowning me…(I should be so lucky)

staring at a reflection in the protective glass,
not someone I reco......

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Categories: requesting, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three Wishes
...I summon Genie from Aladdin's lamp
Requesting he fulfill his wishes three -
I think of children (eyes becoming damp),
Wish 1: please Genie, end their poverty.

Then, contemplating nations still ......

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: requesting, children, father, mother, poverty,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Frozen On Mountaintops Snowy White Slopes
...Frozen On Mountaintops Snowy White Slopes

Fast fading shades of beautiful new morn
angelic rays melt silver frost away;
promising life in each new day when born,
flow even if mortal man fails t......

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Categories: requesting, angel, art, blessing, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Seeking Elusive Violets
...seeking elusive violets
     in shadowy patches 
           beneath jacaranda trees
     a window of sunlight fell upon you

desiring your favor 
     despite rapidly descending sky mists
    ......

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Categories: requesting, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry