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Premium Member Whisper of Death
My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at my ever-flounder appears
Well-earned and justly placed
Where the rabid minions of an avenging God
Will no doubt make bold of my disgrace.

Have...

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Categories: slakes, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Claws of Moonlight
While claws of full moon pierce the lanes, beware

For Hallow slakes on a witching twilight,

Ghoulish tricks from dark shadows choke the air

Engraving beams with ripped imprints of fright!





Halloween Moon Contest of Eve Roper
10/20/2015...

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Categories: slakes, dark, halloween, moon,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member July Matinee
Tuck into the public
private seclusion.

My aversion to inclusion
includes a stub, a tub,
a carelessly careful curation,
a velvet rope, a hint of hope,
a folding chair, softened and stickied 
by foam and frothing soda spills.

A not soundless though talkless time.
My not soundless though talkless time.
My time oh my...

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Categories: slakes, love, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Mediation
Lake wind
slakes still water's 
need for flight-- 
its envy of sea waves
devouring web-prints 
of seagulls, a 
temporary tableau
giving it wings 
where there
are none...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slakes, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Who Dares To Take This Life From Me,Knows No Better: Parts Three and Four
III

This is the land of the convectional rains
Which vie on the monsoon back scrubbing streets
This is the land at half-past four
The rainbow rubs the chilli face of the afternoon
And an evening-morning pervades the dripping, weeping
Rain tree, and gushing, tumbling, sewerless rain drains
   Sub-cutaneously...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slakes, political, rain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jacob Luetweiler 1865-1948
Jacob Luetweiler

1865-1948

From Highland Illinois I travelled,

Travelled with wife, children and the family bible,

Came with stout brethren and brothers in the faith.

And my far-flung epitaph is this:

My friends, I have seen the rain!

I have held the rain in my cupped calloused hands,

Heard the rain as it...

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Categories: slakes, death,
Form: Epitaph



Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part2
This epidemic re: murderous love affair perfervid
with gruesome morbid 
fixation allowing, enabling and providing terrifying 
   trappings, whence Pandora out the lid
anger loosed by gun toting recorded by hid
dee us aide de camp per grim reaper 
   milling crowd, each bewildered...

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Categories: slakes, addiction, body, cry, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member For Lack of Better Judgement
31.
              Salvation

For lack of better judgement...
I perished far sooner than I thought.
Having never made a payment
For the salvation I now sought.

I am beset with want and worry... 
Not sure how my death...

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Categories: slakes, celebration, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Sculpt
And in the well-worn ache
of turning mourning,
there are no more tears-
for all is beauty-lathed
misery, held unswathed,
without fearing to uptake
hope's new sculpted shape.
A changeling exchanged
while flailing naked
in it's abyssal state.

And wholeness excises, to demean
only fruitless shoots, now seen
to sow what has no further meaning.

And in the...

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Categories: slakes, change, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Five Letter Words
sweet music swing
     gypsy bells cheer
berry wines swoon
     lulls aloft wings 
warm’d honey cache
     slow’d lyric beats
plays fork’d tunes
     sweet music swing

skirt, tango, twirl
     ruddy...

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Categories: slakes, dance, lust,
Form: Verse
Haiku
Leaves drop down listless
Sundried crisp summer carpet
Saki soaks and slakes...

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Categories: slakes, environment, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Winter Whiteout 2
(Triple Triolet)
 
Dark skies announce the snow’s advance
while forest roof displays pinched edge
and angel wings begin fluff dance.
Dark skies announce the snow’s advance
as hidden lake usurps her chance
and gums her banks to form a ledge.
Dark skies announce the snow’s advance
while forest roof displays pinched edge....

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slakes, beautiful, snow,
Form: Triolet
Like a Fire Cat Teaser Taste of Spring
Like A Fire Cat - Teaser Taste Of Spring...
Did Fistbump With Ole Man Winter

Once again, this fella alights
this poetaster and trots out weather,
nope not cuz freezing cold bites,
this poetic instance highlights
spate of unseasonably warm temperatures

circa early February 2019,
melting oppressive plights,
whereby totally tubular solar balm
energizes and...

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Categories: slakes, addiction, beautiful, drug, environment,
Form: Pastoral
Vibrations
Resting
The purple canopy above
Soars majestically to the heavens
Shrouding my view

I lie raised
In a caffeine haze
Deafened gloriously

Breathing to the rhythm
Reverberating through the stage
Vibrations soothing my aching limbs

Limbs which have slaved
Creating the musically Eden
Forging metal and wood
Blood and sweat
Sugar and caffeine

The sky darkens
Gentle patting comes from the...

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Categories: slakes, memory, music, work, night,
Form: Free verse
Work!
"Yaaaaawn," I yawn,
the morning's pawn,
I then put on
pajama pants.

Stumblingly walking,
mumble-talking
unable to do
my dance.

I drink caffeine
something obscene,
and can think keenly
once again.

Then down the lane
to work, my bane,
energy draining
spirit waning
my body's slave
until my break
which hardly slakes
my pains and aches
and then and then and then and then and...

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Categories: slakes, life, work
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry