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Premium Member Clerihew To Edna St Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not choosy about person's sex when she played
Nor age of the person with whom she lay
However, her poetry brightens my day ...

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Categories: st vincent, funny,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Please No Empty Room
Let not my heart become in my old age
"An empty room, cobwebbed, and comfortless"
But an open sunny porch, a welcome sage
A loving heart to those...

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Categories: st vincent, introspection, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Transcendent Ms Vincent
Now, I am speechless; I am without speech
As you transcend the simplistic to grand
Grant me the guidance of your gifted hand
In the temple of your...

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Categories: st vincent, appreciation, poetess, writing,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member How Does One Write Poetry
I can imagine : staring in the eyes of : Elizabeth Barret Browning
Seeing the " Glory of LOVE '; bring on the " Sorrow of...

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Categories: st vincent, faith, hope, love, philosophylove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Souls In Stardust
'down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind' - 
Edna St Vincent Millay

In
Vastness
We shall lie
At peace,...

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Categories: st vincent, appreciation, death, paradise, peace,
Form: Etheree



Our Lady of Guadalupe
our lady of Guadalupe stands alight in corner air
her gown emerald, cerise, gold
Don Pedro stands afore
glass to glass in an amber glow
Lowry’s beaked bird of...

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Categories: st vincent, addiction, history, journey, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Last Abyss
"Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the            ...

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Categories: st vincent, analogy, death, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Washed Away Hillslope
Here on a washed away hillslope
Water brought an acorn to grope
A little clay of Georgia red
Put down a tap root and make its bed
Took years...

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Categories: st vincent, death, devotion, health, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Belizean Blend
BELIZEAN BLEND

In the beginning it was the Yucatec, the Mopan and  Kekchi  as well
Who came from the steppes of Asia where nomads dwell
They...

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Categories: st vincent, community, poetry, political, society,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Our Earthcafe Coop
In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.

But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in...

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Categories: st vincent, business, education, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Poetess Edna
Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay
Was different for the times they say
Her lyrical works opened thought ray
Touching my very mind,  heart this day

Contest: One single...

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Categories: st vincent, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme
Tides
'...the great tide that treads the shifting shore.' 
                ...

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Categories: st vincent, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Capitalizing
In the spring, the crows sit in the tall pines
Capitalizing on the field of newly planted corn.
Farmer dreams of corn on the cob which he...

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Categories: st vincent, funny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sonnets - Pleiades
Sonneteer Petrarch, with
      Shakespeare, set the standards:
   so little space - fourteen
      ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: st vincent, poetry, poets,
Form: Pleiades
Along the River
Along the River

Along the river the wildflowers bloom:
Bright swathes of orange, blue and lavender
Join the swelling of buttercup mounds
Awakening scarlet petals of love.
Rowers slide by...

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Categories: st vincent, baby, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things