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Premium Member Come What May
The steep waning of duskfall held by one
Cuddled by a wheeze , the dim air’s pale  light,
Nestling  upon boughs of  memoirs undone
As...

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Categories: snuffed, life, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Sending Waves
My feelings flounder
like a sky of dying stars
already snuffed out
yet still sending waves of light
to haunt my heart at midnight...

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Categories: snuffed, confusion,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member My Lovers Beyond Compare
I greet you, oh mighty Sun!
You who warm us everyone
You who glow to make things grow
You who melt all ice and snow
You are a most...

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Categories: snuffed, dedication, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Day You Died, I Did Too, Mother





There was something in you that magically sparkled.
A light that brightened each corner
of this world.
And when you died, that light was
snuffed out.
And no...it never returned!

I...

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Categories: snuffed, missing you, mother,
Form: Verse
I Only Understand Now
We talked at length
The hours we passed
The life you lived
Oh the horrors 
So many men's live snuffed
Oh Arizona, a dedication
Whose souls be at rest
Amidst oily...

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Categories: snuffed, death, father, introspection, love,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member The Conversation
Dark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...

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Categories: snuffed, death, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alone In the Ruins of a Chapel
Note: Norwegians are proud of many things, but above all, they are endlessly proud of Sissel Kyrkjebø, the Voice of Norway!  International singer.
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I live...

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Categories: snuffed, lost love,
Form: Free verse
A Shadow Emerges
I am very pleased to be able to present
a sixth collaboration with great friend and poet,
Robert Lindley, who is well known to you all
for his...

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Categories: snuffed, dark, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monday Monokus - Oct 2020
These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snuffed, death, humorous,
Form: Monoku
Dream Chaser
A dull Christmas eve, still it was better than most.
I’d heard of winter and snow in places far away–
Of cold and frozen waters and rains...

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Categories: snuffed, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Arlington
Row by row for miles it seems
   perfectly aligned, the white stones rise
Stoic symbols of brave men and women
   a sight...

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Categories: snuffed, military, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wildlife's Vicious Game -- Pic 2
A ghastly cadaver drops, for whose noble sake?
To ravish the grandeur of wildlife
In the dead of night; to mangle
Creation’s gift and its soft flutters,
Where each...

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Categories: snuffed, animal, death, environment,
Form: Verse
Marriage
Today we are here to unite two stars

And bring them together

And so they come together

Now

And together they will be

As all the stars are together

In the...

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Categories: snuffed, beauty, bridal shower, caregiving,
Form: Ballad
Joan of Arc, For God and Country
Joan of Arc – For God and Country

On the feast of the Three Kings was born,
a baby girl, in 1412, under the sign of Capricorn....

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Categories: snuffed, christian, courage, destiny, hero,
Form: Rhyme
The Silent Code of the Animal Farm
The tricky question of how many animal farms we have
May be more complicated than most of us think;
There are at least some fifty-five animal farms...

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Categories: snuffed, abuse,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs