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Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: sounds, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poets
When all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring...

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Categories: sounds, appreciation, encouraging, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Smile Appeared
Silently, I sat by,
To listen to the sounds of the world,
Of all the voices that touched me most,
Were those caught in the angelic wind,
For all...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sounds, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: sounds, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: sounds, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Dreams of India
Dreams of India

Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.

I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...

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Categories: sounds, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artillery Rain
~Perfect Rain~

I can see!
All the tribulations around
A rage against the burning wind
Nobody hears the crackling sounds in my voice
Everybody avoids feeling the smoke hidden within
A...

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Categories: sounds, art, deep, earth, fire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member No Such Thing As Forever
We all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sounds, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: sounds, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sounds, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I Knitted You a Scarf
t         e         t      ...

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Categories: sounds, french, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Shape
Premium Member The Enchanted Forest
The woods were silent except for the shifting 
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon 
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...

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Categories: sounds, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: sounds, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: sounds, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cry of the City
We will walk then, you and I

When daylight shuts her weary eye;

Down the streets where beggars sleep

And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.

On streets that...

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Categories: sounds, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form: Rhyme

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