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Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: rests, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rests, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling Wolf
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf

Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...

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Categories: rests, art, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: rests, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In Her Reflection I Am Poetry
Mind will always dream,
eyes will endlessly gaze,
lips will remain impatient.

Although, I've not met her,
the heart is a battleground
of anguish and angst.
Its cries, seeking the serenity
of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rests, love, romance, romantic love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within...

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Categories: rests, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Life, His Love
Above a cloud, in soundless, still tumescence,
a goddess rests; below her is the sea.
A strip of it is rippling luminescence,
a path of light in night’s...

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Categories: rests, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lake's Music
To find solace from misty tides that curve,
In low beats gently weaving their way
Along the coastline where our town rests:
This aging lake I knew as...

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Categories: rests, peace, river, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts...

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Categories: rests, fate, lost love, memory,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Divine Miracle
A Divine Miracle


That day- I placed my father's crimson rose,

quite randomly, inside a book of prose-

God's intervention was my only guide.

What I had hoped- was...

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Categories: rests, inspirational, miracle, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Java and Me
A sonnet I will write with you today
Inspired by the beauty that I see
Beyond this pane of glass where snowflakes play
Beyond this pane where raindrops...

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Categories: rests, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member One Moment In the Morning
Through the brambles of the arbor's vine,

an artist has spinned some silver lace

This net was cradled over leaves

slung low, and wet with dew.


Evidence was left...

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Categories: rests, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Loves Luculent Light
Love’s Luculent Light


Beyond the portals of time exist immaculate immortals incarnates of light,
helped by the Angels to seed sempiternal love into our earthly existence.
In Perpetuum...

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Categories: rests, destiny, fate, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member All of Life Is a Poem
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable
             in terms of the unforgettable...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rests, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose
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From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose

When Summer rose meets dawning's sweetest hush
Sun comes to bequeath its dawn bathing rays
Red beauty gleaming, rose stills...

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Categories: rests, beautiful, beauty, flower, garden,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs