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Premium Member Darkness Slithers In-Senryu



              Darkness slithers in.
        ...

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Categories: slithers, imagery, night,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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Categories: slithers, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Oh Jerusalem
Remember

Israel of three thousand years
expulsed at times
enslaved by the Romans
gassed by Europe
persecuted by Saudi-Arabia
murdered by Iran and Iraq
shackled by Egypt
attacked by Jordan
robbed by Syria
sold out...

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Categories: slithers, allah, bible, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse
A Night At the Desolate Harbor
The ship in the habor on silvery seas
Lay vacant outspread 'neath the glassy moon
Drifting in cold whispers of the night
Like a drunk man shriveled on...

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Categories: slithers, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: slithers, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Lies and Deception
Silent Lies and Deception


In the silence of murky waters
There slithers oily snakes of the night
Wearing masks of deception
Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue

The KGB...

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Categories: slithers, corruption, evil, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ''shades of Nature''
and in my dream- I find myself in a lush forest
dripping wet with life, steamy and sultry
I am one with nature and with the aqua...

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Categories: slithers, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fading
"Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less"...

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Categories: slithers, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Shedding Thin Skin
Held unyielding in your narrow mind
is the ignorance which keeps you blind.
Building dams will only hold you back
from accepting that white is not black.
Like a...

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Categories: slithers, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Four Walls
Their young strong-willed son,
ever resourceful,
has been given "time out" for bad behavior.
There is no noise coming from the room.
After two hours, 
the mother grows concerned.
Why...

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Categories: slithers, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh

Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...

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Categories: slithers, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In My Green Dream
and in my green dream, I find myself in a green lush forest
dripping wet with life, steamy and sultry
I am one with nature and with...

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Categories: slithers, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh -
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to...

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Categories: slithers, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse
To Be Or Not To Be
A lowly blossom, striving to sustain 
her beauty in the early morning mist, 
the crocus, craving moisture to maintain 
her stoic fight 'gainst winter's iron...

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Categories: slithers, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sorrow


"Sorrow" 

Reality cries its tears
of grief and fear 
calling out to Love 

the song heard 

in all of human kind
beseeching Love
in self, 

the conscious 
collective...

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Categories: slithers, love, muse, sorrow,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things