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Premium Member Life, To Me
Colors daubed for seasons' scenes
          I sift through life for what it means
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Categories: select, appreciation, friendship, life, love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Stars Always Knew
Look at the stars, look how they shine for you
And everything you do;
Yes it’s really true, in the realm of love,
Nothing else ever comes even...

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Categories: select, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In Praise of God
In Praise of God

I look to you for love and grace,
Trusting belief in you I place.
Please keep us safe within your sight.
I feel your presence...

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Categories: select, devotion, god, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Flawless Gems - Lei
A rainbow took my breath away
Whilst on a train one summers day

Her vibrant arc I was in awe
Though folk beside me never saw

With heads bowed...

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Categories: select, appreciation, nature, rainbow, technology,
Form: Lay
Premium Member A Gentle Slam
Simply unaware....or perhaps I don't care
what others say or do
It's partially true
I'm through

Used to care what they think
of my words, of my ink
not anymore....
So much...

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Categories: select, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Pride and Joy of His Family
Having lived on earth for some time now
Impatiently he dwells, harboring self doubt.
In face of impediments he loses his mind
Acquiring dispositions like hate and lies,
Hosting...

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Categories: select, integrity, life, men, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sapphire Skies In Sanguine Eyes
In the absence of complication,
Trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
Inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind.

Hope of a brand-new day...

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Categories: select, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
I Am a Poem Popper
I am a poem popper

Poetry is the drug for me
A perpetual habit
Shared with select company

I am a poem popper

I have been since the age of...

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Categories: select, me, poetry, poets,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Part Time Poet
She calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny

She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...

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Categories: select, angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Water and Wing
Cob swan and I have met here many times,
          As heaven's hem is melting pink and...

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Categories: select, analogy, appreciation, bird, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
The Truth About Adhd
Growing up with ADHD forces you to adapt,
impulsive behaviour controls how you react,
attention span wanders and naturally distracts,
you face an impact, that in fact, doesn't...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: select, anti bullying, perspective, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomorrow
Upon my sunshine when yesterday rains
Dwelling in my present uninvited
Clueless of today's closing arguments,
The joy of tomorrow my new-dawn claims

No point whispering to lovelorn woes
When...

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Categories: select, future, hope, joy, life,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In Scarlet Dawn
If I have the time, I’ll wait eons, to greet you in scarlet dawn
As you marvel its vermillion garb embossing marigold arc
Emanating golden sparks, piercing...

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Categories: select, imagery, love, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: select, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: select, political
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things