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Premium Member Bougainvillea
Lovely blossoms of bougainvillea
Under a moonlight serenade 
Ostensibly I contemplate the root
Of the affinity drawing me to you
Abiding fighter and bounteous lover
Rendering your essence freely
For...

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Categories: ruses, introspection, longing, love, moon,
Form: Free verse



Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains...

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Categories: ruses, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flood
Waters rise, engulf the land and other ruses
we devise to block their flow, to stem the tides.
Anxious, we are left to ride the waves
on fragile...

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Categories: ruses, allegory, angst, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Citadel Heart
I am just a beating heart
red from the start and damned with a dream
a spiking scream upon the Hope and Hell seam,
the world passes through...

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Categories: ruses, america, character, courage, desire,
Form: Epic
Irreverent Hotheaded Grinch
(Any resemblance between said title,
as told tummy by ya finch,
and commander in chief,...
not accidental, nor a cinch
buttock hum posed on behalf

of these bottom ming out
fifty...

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Categories: ruses, age, allegory, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133

(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ruses, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form: Epigram
Weeping For Butterflies
I stood and stared at vivid things
Yellows, white, and neon blues,
From tiny ones, with tiny wings
To graceful giants, in lustrous hues.

There were dandies garbed in...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ruses, butterfly, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Epic Pursuits
Back in the mists of time
Were stories sung 
Where minds in thrall by minstrels 
Were held
With tales revealing 
Viscerality and viciousness
The currency of glory and...

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Categories: ruses,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When It Is Winter
When It Is Winter

Whence from shine the seasons to whom and to where

High on snow peaked mountains sits the Buddha under a fir tree

Exalted warm...

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Categories: ruses, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Love and Hate
LOVE is raw
Really raw
HATE is raw
Really raw
Both with four letters
Bind and break
Through opposing tunnels…

What you love you can hate
What you hate, love
Love is white
Hate is...

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Categories: ruses, allusion, art, color, dark,
Form: Lyric
Don'T Want To See It Ruined
9/14/17


Televisions getting muted
Signals getting lost or boosted

Meanwhile people hooted
Brooded and continually feuded

Was not one to make my drinks diluted
Made me snooze quick or feel rebooted

Having...

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Categories: ruses, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Stone Age Brains
Our stone-age brains are single-minded:
we seek to hurl our genes into the future.
Display your fitness, man, and ride the wave
of giddy, girly admiration!

The muscles, music,...

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Categories: ruses, life, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xl
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XL

IF you pull a long Quixotic face
At your own mirror image en face at play
Your Right from Left...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ruses, conflict, feelings, games, heart,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A True Politician
A TRUE POLITICIAN
                      ...

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Categories: ruses, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fear Abounds: Echo Poem 6-Th
Poet's Notes:
My poet's notes must precede the next Echo Poem as well because the poet 
has not given me permission to publish her poems on...

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Categories: ruses, fear, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs