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Premium Member Rueful
Rueful.

The roots of love have bought forth shoots of sweethearts, dark and fair
some blossomed and some faded from a spark that wasn't there.
Magical attraction, in an instant spells were cast
but time soon bought the curtain down, the show not meant to last.
The rendezvous, it's time...

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Categories: rueful, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interlocking Rueful Sky and Trapped Earth
Azure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents,
iridescent earth sun trap poised  to garner sympathy,
dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble,
toxic deluge drenches mudbank plot as toilers whine,
thunderstruck I gaze at wild indigo sea mist on brine-fleck shore  

Edge of seat terra...

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Categories: rueful, anxiety, art, august, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Epitaph of a Rueful Man
Trailing clouds of glory ,do we show,
Trailing crowds of phantoms ,do we go.
Bliss is it in that dawn to be born,
Remorse is it in that twilight to be  gone.

Swaddled in great expectations do we appear,
Shrouded in our shrunken deeds,we say our au revoir,
Soaring on...

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Categories: rueful, angst, death,
Form: Rhyme

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Such Rueful Rain
Don’t change me

I’m not broken like you, not like you

Please set me free

Often times, I’m here without any clue

 I find it quite strange

That I am fixed completely and I have hardly anymore horrid scars or bothersome blemishes of rue

It’s beyond my range

It’s odd, yet...

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Categories: rueful, angst, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry