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An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: resists, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Girl With the Pearl Earring
That pensive look on her sweet face 
Just like a child of mine.
Her eyes seem to follow you with
Dominion that's divine.

Northwest light on soft blush...

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Categories: resists, art, beauty, woman,
Form: Rhyme
The Wall
I never saw your writing

against the silent wall

I never heard  those footsteps

walking to the door

Like a sunset shadow

you faded in my dusk

Left upon my...

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Categories: resists, for him,
Form: Lyric
Rude, Drunken Pen
Bloody rude drunken pen has enjoyed a nib of ink or two, reminiscing on a few 
Bad and ugly times, we both admit at times...

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Categories: resists, imagination, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forsaken On This Day
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a muddle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust,as the air 
resists this heart's unanswered questions
howling about this litany of a crushed promise:...

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Categories: resists, betrayal, heart, recovery from,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member See-Saws
What playground does not hold the magic lure
Of see-saws firmly braced upon their stands?
What child resists excitement, felt for sure
In ups and downs: the hard...

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Categories: resists, inspiration, life, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Lions Gate Bridge
on the pinnacle 
he resists temptation 
traffic resumes...

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Categories: resists, depression, mental illness, suicide,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member In Response To My First Poem
See-Saws  -   (First Poem posted on PoetrySoup, 08/04/2014)

What playground does not hold the magic lure
of see-saws firmly braced upon their stands?
What child...

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Categories: resists, life, philosophy, universe,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Love Too Great
Love too great can drown the one adored.
As if Jove sent  tsunami as a gift
Overwhelming all her personal choice.

Little offerings gentle and deserved
Will ...

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Categories: resists, deep, devotion, love,
Form: Villanelle
The Silent Wall
I never saw your writing
against the silent wall
I never heard those footsteps 
walking to the door.
Like a sunset shadow
you faded in the dusk
Hanging upon my...

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Categories: resists, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Nothing Lasts Forever
When distance circles the shoreline
Painfully , a numb breeze  decries
How our lackluster glance mirrors
Frail changing of hesitant eyes.
Across night’s starkly blunt  edges
Fondness dangles...

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Categories: resists, loss, romance,
Form: Rhyme
A Cursed Fate

The child is born, and they must rejoice
Alas! It’s a girl, there’s no choice
And she grows, oblivious
Of the fate that awaits, devious

She cooks and cleans,...

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Categories: resists, angst, childhood, grief, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Mother's Love and Her Lament
A Mother's Love And Her Lament

Before the break of a winter's morn
tired, it is dark, dank and cold.
With sad, eating thoughts so forlorn
wonders how quickly...

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Categories: resists, appreciation, beautiful, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme
Deporting Love Again
They took my blood and ethnic group, they did.
My soul was skulking, knowing of the strains
If I have no visa, they’ll get mad

Reading my thick...

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Categories: resists, absence, abuse, angst, relationship,
Form: Villanelle
God's Masterpiece
The velvet red rose bows as you pass by
It’s pedals wither as it concedes in envy
Your soft rouge lips in shame it cries.

Your Persian eyes...

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Categories: resists, adventure, angel, beauty, bible,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs