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Premium Member Umbrella
*I Will Cry*

If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?

I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...

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Categories: saved, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Grandpa
The old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.

He gazed upon a little...

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Categories: saved, childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: saved, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: saved, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member H Stands For Human Resources
The Scarlet Letter H



Two Windows                    The...

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Categories: saved, philosophy,
Form: Shape



Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saved, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bastard
"All Children Are Beautiful"

His heart of white,   deep shallow wells,   -yet beautiful
He smirks with a grin,  an ego that won't...

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Categories: saved, art, beauty, betrayal, child,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saved, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gemini Heart
Meet me in forever,
where the moon enclasps
the enchanting 
   heaven above us,
for you, are the music 
     playing on...

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Categories: saved, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: saved, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Bit
he enters the room
coyly she tugs her skirt
just a bit
enough to reveal her shapely legs

tossing back her golden tresses
she shakes her head
just a bit
hoping to...

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Categories: saved, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alpha To Omega
ALPHA TO OMEGA 

A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul...

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Categories: saved, friendship,
Form: Free verse
When She Dreams
When she dreams/ with Jennifer Noble

(It was a) different time...
a different world
Long ago she learned that..
trust can turn

(Everyone said) such a pretty girl...
Her porcelain skin...

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Categories: saved, abuse, anxiety, dream, for
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gravitational Pull
Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

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Categories: saved, abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: saved, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs