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Premium Member To Be With You -
I love you,
that's not hard for me to say,
its not a prediction, or a reflection, it just is
a motion in my heart's ocean,
an ocean named...

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Categories: starving, desire,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Magic Beans
Our first awareness
      falling through time
      through blood-rain, pure white snow, green vegetation 
 ...

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Categories: starving, adventure, chocolate, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: starving, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: starving, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul’s Cry
Another lost noon, 
engraved as unforgettable 
memoirs within my mind, 
I’m rethinking of rewriting
and rewinding revoked 
reflections of a love rekindled. 
My eager heart
is now...

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Categories: starving, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: starving, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: starving, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: starving, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ordinary Man
Snow is falling and floods are flowing,
people dying and children keep crying,
but he's just an ordinary man,
sitting there watching TV.

Icebergs melting and penguins starving,
men in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starving, allusion, analogy, political, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rest Is Silence
I left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...

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Categories: starving, history, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
In Purple Fields We Dance
 Stay a little longer

come closer to my heart

Breathe dew breeze  on my neck's nape

do not yet depart

Play for me bagpipe music

Blindfold all my...

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Categories: starving, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mission of the Yellow Songbird
Mission of the Yellow Songbird

A long highway road stretched its legs before me,
In a place where tumble weeds were conceived,
December evening chasing daylight back to...

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Categories: starving, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother - POTD
shade of vermilion encompassing sky at dawn, 
pure fragrance of delightful jasmine in summer, 
luminous dew drops quivering on lotus leaves,
an almost-forgotten melody from my childhood! 
all these...

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Categories: starving, dedication, devotion, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prayer For the Bahamas
With broken hearts we turn to You
Our tears cannot help those in need
To countless souls we bid adieu
And hope You listen as we plead

Bahamians need...

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Categories: starving, faith, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Girl
Secretly, I watch the neighbors, 
From my well-advantaged location.
Mrs. G. is complaining about her husband to Mrs. S.
No one's drama is ever as vivid as...

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Categories: starving, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs