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The Music Of Heart In Verse Softly Whirred
What seems now old 
Used to be utterly new
What was previously told 
We cease to over chew
*****
All that is old hold a treasure 
If only...

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Categories: retrace, deep, destiny, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ode To the Coffeemaker
To the little machine, that's so hard to clean
And sits alone on the shelf,
I'm thankful to you, for that potion you brew
That turns me into...

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Categories: retrace, appreciation, funny,
Form: Ode
Premium Member When Butterflies Dance to Moon's Song
Curving, swirling, in moonlit stance, butterflies merrily dance,
Undulating tenor of nocturnal music, beneath stellar expanse,
When celestial orchestra plays, occult notes of galactic tune,
As titillations of...

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Categories: retrace, butterfly, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme
From There To Here.
As you ponder each turn that has landed you here,
taut tempo will quicken and frail futures loom near.
Take one somber moment, step away from the...

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Categories: retrace, introspection, life, philosophytime,
Form: Quatrain
Promises and Wishes
Wishing Well by Juke55 @ Deviant Art



I circle from pale to shade,
countless steps
around the abandoned well.
Wasted wishes rest 
in dried-up depths, 
we perish
in its hollows....

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Categories: retrace, betrayal, feelings, heartbroken, trust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Resolutions
As autumns of dear life, I endeavor to face,
Reminiscing in springs, memories I retrace;
Cognizant that splendor of seasons will end,
Seeking amends, life’s goodwill I befriend;

Resolving...

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Categories: retrace, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clair De Lune
I would practice each day without satisfaction,
longing to capture the moon's oratory.
DeBussy, God, help me, I should say that I'm sorry!
Though my fingers were nimble,...

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Categories: retrace, childhood, music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Tonight I Dream of You
Soft creeps the splendid dream tides of the night
The burning embers of heavens breath descends upon my dreams
Dreams of you, my love tonight
Sparkling wishes, amulet...

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Categories: retrace, adventure, deep, dream, hope,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Coffee Shoppe
As scented air aroused my misty mind, 
a shadow broke the early morning Sun,
aromas wafting from the morning’s grind,
assured the senses morning had begun.

I felt...

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Categories: retrace, allusion, beauty, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time
“Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

One paints the beginning
of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
sure beginning.”

Passing Time: Poem by Maya Angelou




Harkening all the...

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Categories: retrace, time, universe,
Form: Free verse
Cold Moon Rising
Once again without my lover;
a cold moon is soon to be
For this I have some tension and
anxiety...

If only then I knew
that here would be a...

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Categories: retrace, anxiety, depression, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trance
the cemetery is still this Autumn day
as rain falls like kisses of love on my cheeks
to mingle with my tears . . . 
memories have...

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Categories: retrace, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beware, the Wayward Heart
The wayward wind forever so aloof
across the prairie blowing wild and free;
just like a herd of horses on the hoof,
and running loose with nature’s grand...

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Categories: retrace, loneliness, lost love, love,
Form: Sonnet
To My "layla"
Where is that woman
I so loved so long ago?
And for reasons unfathomed
I love as much still

Beauty beyond compare
to me
Simple in thought
But complex in love

Years of...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrace, life, lost love, sad,
Form: Ballad
My Beloved, In Love's Embrace - Part -9 - Valentine's Collection - 2020
2.
You shall be the grace of my core, 
we sing love’s song, by loves own shore, 
my Goddess divine, I adore.
My eternal rose blooms for...

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Categories: retrace, dream, emotions, love,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things