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Premium Member How Jan and Lin Slayed the Dragon
Two ladies named Jan and named Lin
professed a forgivable sin
they cornered a dragon
wrung her in a flagon
and gave her away as cheap gin

The old dragon's...

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Categories: slayed, fantasy, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slayed, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Forgive My Silence
Dear December, 
Forgive my silence, 
I’m still bleeding from 
         the lacerations,
I still hear the echoes 
from...

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Categories: slayed, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final resting place
Brick by brick I built my walls,
despite fires raging,
I preserved paths that connected
bridges between our breathless existence. 

Now that my heartbeats
have reached a dead end...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slayed, death, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ancient Hero, Firm and Honorable Til Death
I am very pleased to present a fourth collaboration, this time in rhyme
with my dear friend Lawrence Sharp, a truly exceptional poet. 
.
Thank you, Lawrence,...

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Categories: slayed, art, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Name Is Scheherazade
I do not want to die
Like each virgin you bed
When you have ravished her
It's off with pretty head

I do not want to die
But…Oh to be...

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Categories: slayed, history, how i feel,
Form: Epic
Premium Member For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart go
with its immense depths, sweet kisses, resplendent glow.
I could do no such, no more than...

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Categories: slayed, heartbreak, hope, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze, - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze, 
- a collaboration with Susan Ashley
 
How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart...

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Categories: slayed, beautiful, creation, heart, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Ancient Hero, Firm and Honourable Til Death
I am very pleased to present a fourth collaboration 
with great poet and friend, Robert Lindley.
Only Robert's mighty pen and personal encouragement
could possibly have inspired...

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Categories: slayed, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sonnet Triples, Poet and Time's Thoughtful Musings
Sonnet Triples, Poet And Time's Thoughtful Musings

(1.)
The Sonnet And The Poetic Query

Playing on the crescent hill, moonglow dances,
  And dying mouse took its usual...

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Categories: slayed, art, creation, deep, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Last Waltz
La dernière valse

From the skies
Clouds fall upon my dreams
I am up high, away from it all
I am far, but my tears still fall
I stand up...

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Categories: slayed, grave, heart, longing, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Darkest of Confessions
Darkest of Confessions


Voices in my head
Dancing abreast with the abstract
Shattered glasses and shattered dreams
History repeats many a lovers’ defeat

I demand a duel
With my heart
I welcome...

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Categories: slayed, angst, appreciation, french, funeral,
Form: Free verse
From Darkness To Stardom
Every child is born into this world crying,
Little did this poor child know, tears would fall for the rest of her life.
Born into a world...

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Categories: slayed, angel, change, dream, pain,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Adieu - Part 1
Do you remember?
We lay in the moonlight, exhausted and content,
Moments from perfection, skin glistening with moisture,
Salty and sweet from love - love so amazing
That it...

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Categories: slayed, heartbreak, love, passion, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death From Sins
Unveiling of the righteous King has come.
To bring a peace upon the ravaged land.
A war was fought, the loser did succumb.
The soldiers now are just,...

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Categories: slayed, poetry,
Form: Sonnet

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