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Premium Member All In a Day
A black cloud dangles
Effortlessly forms
A haunting image
Showers travel east
Daisy hides her face.

A Robin sings
A melody
The sun appears
Once more she smiles.

Grass uncoils
Raindrops dry
Web retracts.

Sunset
Moon beam.

Stars.

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Categories: retracts, nature, uplifting,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse



Angry Words
A sky of angry screeching,
demanding;
like a raptor in the wind.
Doesn't have the impact
that simple warbling brings.

With fear of cruel words spoken,
love retracts,
like claws on birds...

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Categories: retracts, allegorywords,
Form: Free verse
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retracts, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Curly Hair
The magic gem of curly hair,
Procures itself in sodden downpour.
Frizz retracts and curls define,
Revitalised by heaven's moisture.
No brolly required.
No wind-swept locks.
A long-awaited makeover,
Of the most...

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Categories: retracts, hair, imagery, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Faithful Lady
A problem to most men and A dynamic explosion to anything I paint orange
The missing link is always overlooked, of course I'm Intellegent enough to...

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Categories: retracts, business, caregiving, strength, together,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Last Light
Land masses in freeze
mans conditional now waned
nature retracts, whilst
a polar bear roams a city
incomprehensible times









http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/life-13.php...

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Categories: retracts, animals, life, nature, people,
Form: Tanka
An End To Aloneness
In my life I often feel I am alone; alone in my thoughts, alone in my musings, alone in my day-to-day movements and unsatisfying activities....

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Categories: retracts, boyfriend, confusion, courage, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Boy King
THE BOY KING

Oh youthful monarch of Egypt, so young to die and yet live again.
In the nether world a Pharaoh's golden death mask is lain...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retracts, adventure, fantasy, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Kindle
O sweet touches, tell me low:

"How does your skin age so slow?"

Wanting fingers trail hello, how can those eyes just watch me so?
Like children running...

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Categories: retracts, loveme,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Minute With You
Your disconsolate hollow eyes continue to stare straight through me
Your mind has transformed loved ones into strangers
You see only a haze of people coming and...

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Categories: retracts, age, caregiving, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
A Hornswoggle Charmer 11-29-16
"A Hornswoggling Charmer" 


Sweet chet by day, cheats by night, He creeps,
he heats, he strays. My greet, fought in spite cause.
He’s up the dense, watching...

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Categories: retracts, addiction, conflict, corruption, lust,
Form: Blank verse
Farewell My Love
FAREWELL MY LOVE!

Farewell my love, i must return home, a loner
The moon wanes and below, descends the horizon
A galaxy crowns the looming of a gloomy...

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Categories: retracts, anxiety, farewell, heartbreak, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Question, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: La Cuestion
The Question, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : La Cuestion

				« …Oh ! God, Oh ! Centre »*

		for Vicente Puchol

(* Note by the editor, Alejandro D....

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retracts, introspection, , memorial,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T Wignesan
The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan 

(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retracts, creation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Pygmalion's Bride
That's just what perfection does - 
As hopeful torrid night spills in through stargazing windows 
Illuminating shadowy grays drawn by God's hand in charcoal 
on...

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Categories: retracts, beauty, color, philosophy, woman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs