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Mackenzie Trail
When doves on evenings, calm and still, call out a hollow tone,
They rouse a medley, old as time, so few have ever known.
The whispered lines...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: single file, adventure, cowboy-western, historyold, horse,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Earth As It Is
These are the times
I sit and ponder at the beauty of it all,
amazed at the bounty of my blessings
Overburdened with foolish reminiscing
For the time has...

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Categories: single file, animal, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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Categories: single file, change, childhood, community, history,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member We Marched For the Madness of Mortality's Mayheim -
Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,

we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no...

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Categories: single file, history, march,
Form: Imagism
Smile Smile For a While
My name is Mr. Happy.
Spelled H-A-P-P-Y. 
Also known as Pappy.
Spelled P-A-P-P-Y.
I am the Mr. Happy Pappy guy.
And, I hate to see kids cry...
I hate to...

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Categories: single file, cheer up, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Another Leader Emerges
From sagging huts up in the hills, 
We watched the tourists flash their bills. 
They piled our harvest on their plates, 
While soup and scraps...

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Categories: single file, history, people, social, people,
Form: Rhyme
Latin Lover
The heat of your breath hitting against me
Firing up my insides...seethingly sexy
Against my neck fascination begins
Bearing your silken Latin mocha skin
Wanton chocolate eyes melt me...

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© Jane Bowen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: single file, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, passion, people,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Blizzard
Eleven horses traipsed single file toward home
The scudding clouds threw a snowflake now and then
A Brown bear sniffed the air and looked toward his den
...

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Categories: single file, snow,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Time For School
It's time for school to start again.
Children must cease their summer play,
to once more pick up books, paper, pen.
It's time for school to start again.
Parents...

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Categories: single file, school, student, teacher,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Humans, Ants and Shadows
HUMANS, ANTS AND SHADOWS

The smallest ants cast long shadows. . .

Little they are but see how discipline they can be
Millimeters apart, they all unify in...

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Categories: single file, animal, imagery, insect, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Xenophobia Pt 1
TITLE:
       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit...

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Categories: single file, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form: Lyric
Come Sit By Me
COME, SIT BY ME ( to Emily Dickinson)



 Emily--
    Come,
        Sit by me --

We’ll watch...

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Categories: single file, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And I'M Hungry For You
AND I'M HUNGRY FOR YOU


Three days passed, Billy again is sitting relax in his favorite place.  Smile flower from his face as he watch...

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Categories: single file, absence, children, desire, feelings,
Form: Haibun
My Concrete Rose
My concrere rose


 Stone in single file under the rock;
Scraping purple sea shells under the dock.
The seeds scattered all but one spot,
Blossom bloom, blowing memories....

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Categories: single file, dark, death, depression, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Who Am I
A new photograph floats to the surface
Playfully dressing up as the world around me
Hat, striped socks and all
Tiptoeing at the top for one last sweet...

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Categories: single file, age, analogy, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs