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Uncharted Waters
An ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,  
yet I am...

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Categories: shown, appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme



Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: shown, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shown, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
A Need To Be Somewhere Else
I’m the one who needs to be somewhere else, 
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...

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Categories: shown, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: shown, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme



Evening Dew
When twilight's spectral fingers fold
Sweet blossoms of every hue;
Some half opened bud will hold
Its pearls of evening dew.

Touched with every sunshine hour
The eternal earth has...

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Categories: shown, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Are One
We Are One


Dear Ancient Sister
I hear your distant calls finding me on a gentle breeze
You have lived in my dreams for many seasons

My voice 
Your...

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Categories: shown, blessing, celebration, community, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Flower Blooms
While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

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Categories: shown, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: shown, community, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member An Empty Tissue Box
When pain hits hard, you might feel like your soul
is bleeding out, but there’s no blood to see.
Your body is the part that takes the...

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Categories: shown, body, grief, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Blessings In the Loving Arms of Jesus
Blessings are real
Blessings are true
Blessings are sent from God to you

Early in the mornings 
In late afternoons
Blessings despite the gloom and doom

Blessings are free
Blessings will...

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Categories: shown, blessing, jesus, motivation,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Silent Echoes of Her Tongue
It's always those who reside in our hearts,
whose words, like lightning,
electrocute our soul,

and in each pain there is a lesson.

Her life was like a room...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shown, death, loss, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ollyver, My Beloved
"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
    ...

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Categories: shown, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...

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Categories: shown, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Seeds of Love
Destiny quivers,
like the lips of young lovers awaiting their first kiss.
As I quivered before our first … although just your hand.
It was filled with the...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shown, creation, desire, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things