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I Hear Silence
Silent sturdy nothing ringing through my desolate unforgiving ears
A pin drops, a heart stops, a cry, a scream, still nothing phases my hearing of silence
My...

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Categories: retarding, life
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Need-Did
Water drop
Anguish
Cries
Out

Did I need to taste your sorrow?

She drowned me
While screaming fixated curiosities
Why I would not return

Oblivious to the obvious

Dilapidated wonder-wall
dripping concrete uncertainty

The fusion of...

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Categories: retarding, introspection, life, love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Some Tanka
SOME  TANKA

The  mirror swallowed
my footprints on the shore
I couldn’t blame the waves
the geese kept flying over the head
the shadows  kept  moving...

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Categories: retarding,
Form: Tanka
Bushwalker
My garden, my garden, my beautiful garden
kaleidoscopic is feathers and flowers
I sit on a seat, a fine trees departing
and listen to your orchestral hours.

Only a...

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Categories: retarding, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Undulating Emotions
Undulating emotions 
are encircling all around
Discomboblating and muffling 
the impression of sounds
Retarding the stillness
of abiding on smooth ground

It's like:

What do?
I do?

Do I
Take a walk ...

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Categories: retarding, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Unpardonable
It was unpardonable to burp after communion, 
Even though I felt so full up that I felt quite sick, 
Because my parents wanted to know...

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Categories: retarding, i am, imagery, leadership,
Form: Quatrain
Very, Very Soon
Unease…approaching panic in me grew,
As I walked out confronting carnage everywhere,
Radiation-rotted corpses fouling all the air,
Bodies bare of clothing, hair and skin,
Slain by war that...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retarding, warme, men,
Form: Verse
Branches
losing blood like a hemorrhage. 
it’s your hands that will bleed this time. 
stale, Dauphin eyes break and feed 
tragic Calamity, when the wisping clouds...

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Categories: retarding, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Beholding Me
June 22 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 15

Key Verse – Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and...

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Categories: retarding, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kalapana - 'Home'
The blackened earthen ash cradles the sojourn of time with Jezebel's fingers, her lady of the night holds, retarding the new virgin's 'rites of passage'...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retarding, absence, allegory, longing, loss,
Form: Haibun
No Surprises
My thinking
Slightly 
Retarding
Time ticking 
The awful process
Meanwhile
Memories 
To sift 
Some will say it’s a gift
Others
Will slice their wrists
A creative edge
Let’s say
An act of personal revenge...

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Categories: retarding, depression,
Form: Bio
Who Is God
festivities of the elevated
ocean derails into a vol-
canic eruption of iso-
teric consumption
retarding ways of rage
cools into an organic
mass of ice then me-
lts fossils of the
extinct...

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Categories: retarding, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
Very, Very Soon
Unease…approaching panic in me grew,
As I walked out confronting carnage everywhere,
Radiation-rotted corpses fouling all the air,
Bodies bare of clothing, hair and skin,
Slain by war that...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retarding, visionaryme, men,
Form: Verse
Rose of Paper
You are alike to a fine paper rose
Perfectly crafted, scarlet and snow white.
Within your eyes the paper rosebud grows
Sanguine and bright, the most beauteous sight.

A...

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Categories: retarding, beauty, flower, inspirational, romantic,
Form: Sonnet
Parcity
We file on through scheming life's snaring wiles,
Unlearning bitter lessons sad yesterdays taught;
Biting humble pies for blunders repeatedly made,
Yet unheeding despite like fights erstwhile fought....

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Categories: retarding, abuse, adventure, allegory, angel,
Form: Carpe Diem

Book: Reflection on the Important Things