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Premium Member Poet In Recluse
I relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrap, emotions, solitude,
Form: Rubaiyat



Premium Member The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses
'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
  Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
  The Grinch...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrap, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Wheelbarrow
The old red wheelbarrow is still standing there
right next to my Grandfather’s fixed rocking chair.
Though neither has moved in a good many years
their presence revives...

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Categories: scrap, death, grandparents, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: scrap, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Where Do They Go, These Little Poems
They crumble like confetti,
These little poems I write,
One letter on each tiny scrap,
They blow into the night.

To tickle the toes of a passing star,
And burn...

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Categories: scrap, fantasy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Arctic Afterglow

When the 
glacial sun slips 
in softened womb 
of the scarlet 
spheres at dusk, 
yearning for 
hibernal rebirth 
as a lustrous 
morning star, 
it radiates...

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Categories: scrap, dream, emotions, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Story of the Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: scrap, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Poem, the Poet
This pen writes not a story, 
but a life upon a page; its glory. 
Love for the writing; the heart,
thumping, beat after beat, never apart.
Conceived...

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Categories: scrap, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Shopped For My Spouse Like I Shop For My Automobile
My man was old and battered and was destined for the scrap heap
He’d failed his annual MOT as his many defects ran far too deep
His...

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Categories: scrap, age, body, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I Love People, Yes I Do
I love people, yes I do,
Fight against invisible lines
Barriers of words
Sentences figuring escape
I love people, yes I do,
For every scrap of all
Of you is only...

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Categories: scrap, hopelove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peeled Diary Pages
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

                ...

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Categories: scrap, memory, pain, teenage, writing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Day In My Life
 
Not sure what I do but I sure am exhausted at the end of the day,
so I decided to think about it and made...

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Categories: scrap, introspection,
Form: List
Premium Member The Melting Pot
The humid air sweats streaming curls down the toddler’s flush cheeks like Fusilli hot from the stove. The golden ringlets cling to her forehead, bouncing...

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Categories: scrap, childhood,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Letters From Batman
Playing Batman and Robin is a lot different

When the Riddler is your Stepfather

And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile

When your secret mission is to keep him

From...

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Categories: scrap, abuse, adventure, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poet Rambles
the truth never told me a lie; if one writes a thousand poems one has a thousand poems written; everyone sees the sky as blue;...

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Categories: scrap, dedication, life, life, poems,
Form: Free verse

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