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Premium Member Broken People
I wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...

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Categories: stories, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: stories, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Grandpa
The old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.

He gazed upon a little...

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Categories: stories, childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: stories, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
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: stories, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Monster
MONSTER

Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed, 
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...

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Categories: stories, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Interview with the Wind
“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius

“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr. 
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for...

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Categories: stories, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Halloween's Mask of Comfort
In a house beside the forest lives a woman and her son

He is scarred by burns and fire – hidden kept from everyone

There is land...

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Categories: stories, desire, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
The Garden That Lives On
The 
        old house
   from my memories 
 opens to a wide porch
adorned by mom with...

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Categories: stories, garden,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Writing Unwraps My Soul - Potd
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: stories, life, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stories, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Nutcrackers Last Waltz
             
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Categories: stories, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Mirrored Reflections
Receive
Listen
Be Still

Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time

I look down to...

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Categories: stories, appreciation, celebration, fantasy, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: stories, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: stories, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme

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