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Premium Member He Strokes Her Face
Beneath the gaze
of watchful eyes
she sits and cries.
The fairies pry

and wring their hands.
The wind goes by
with anguished sigh
he strokes her face.


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Categories: strokes, sad, wind,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Where My Brush Strokes Linger
I woke trembling on the threshold of dawn 
as dappled sunlight through my window shone 
Upon my primed canvas there had been drawn 
a masculine image with finely chiseled cheekbones

What virile fantasy had I born while in flight 
for my hand to have created such...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strokes, desire, dream,
Form: Romanticism
Different Strokes
books, all in row - squeezed
together; like on the bus

different            stories...

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Categories: strokes, people, urban,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Bold Strokes
In October, I feel a nip in the air,
that frosts my breath like contrails of smoke;
as gilded leaves start falling from the trees.
Overhead, a gaggle of honking geese
are fleeing Winter's approach; 
joining the songbirds that have migrated south. 
The leaves are painted in thick, bold...

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Categories: strokes, august, change, color, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Different strokes
(Our differences are like the pieces of a puzzle called life)

What does humanity want from life, it’s puzzling to know
Peace signs, Daisy cutters, find Jesus in the afterglow 
Seek out seventy two virgins, priming fuses to blow?
Come together in jannah, with a godlike libido

Write painstaking...

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Categories: strokes, life, people, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Masterful Paint Strokes of Artistic Hand
Masterful paint strokes of his artistic hand.
Should use zinnias or roses that are banned?
Decides upon an honored verdant ginger jar
Muse stirs up imagination from afar 

Maestro’s every keystroke magnificently planned. 
Masterful paint strokes of his artistic hand 
Waiting now for proud pink zinnias to come...

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Categories: strokes, art,
Form: Couplet



Family Strokes
1.The dogma of atheist does not contain any stance
(positive nor negative)about any form of incest.
about pig eating,about swine soup,about fried frogs,
about consensual gaang baang etcetera.
2.Moreover,most atheists do not customarily condemn 
the very practices that religion condemns, 
for example,idolatry,adultery,and homosexuality.
3.Atheists do not constitute a cohesive or...

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Categories: strokes, abortion, atheist, brother, native
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Brush Strokes
Canvas is heavy, full of lovely thought
to place a young maiden beneath a willow tree
maybe beside a quaint pool where seasons wrought.
The youthful maiden known to others as Marie,
trapped hearts of many callow gents' curiosity
sending them tumbling hard from declined advance;
all were rejected but not...

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Categories: strokes, art, romance,
Form: Ballade
The Funny Side of Strokes - My Hospital Embarrassment
An event I have to tell you about was a rather embarrassing occasion for me,
But they say laughter is one of life’s best medicines, so I’ll share it with you happily.

One morning I was getting dressed and got down on my knees to look in...

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Categories: strokes, funny, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Different Strokes: Echo Poem 2
The Rosy Lay*

Ready for a kiss did sun rise, 
gleaming, shimmering in the April sky, 
had set to bloom bouquets of love, 
a rose among them caught my eye... 

And made me notice for the first time 
the alluring blooms of Angoora Van**, 
and the...

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Categories: strokes, april, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gentle Strokes
Requested I am
as I witness gravity
tanned porcelain viewed
with gentle strokes I caress
her jet black mane captures me




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Categories: strokes, beautiful, beauty, dream, feelings,
Form: Tanka
Different Strokes For Different Folks
I am white
you are red
you are yellow
you are black
you are brown
“suffer the little children
to come unto me”
Jesus loves the little children…

Nathan’s contest...

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Categories: strokes, racism,
Form: Free verse
Soul Strokes Ii
Child
spirits
living here
in a human
school...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strokes, life
Form: Lanterne
Soul Strokes
You inspire me to be
less the thinker, the doer,
and more the drinker of spirits
from out of the Universe.
The Being being.

Then sings my soul
the gospel of the pines
and birdsong as we walk
in the glory of Springtime.

I am spiritual having
a human experience knowing Soul
resides inside a space...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strokes, faithhome, home, me, space,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Strokes
forgive me master
while you at your desk
took private your thoughts

i dared trespass...
approaching silent
i slipped your mind
in the rays of sun
i came from behind

the master
and I at his desk
...forgive me...

Ancient stokes do see
hands on the brush
playing cards of kanji
writing on my skin
in the After of Life
blood...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strokes, life
Form:

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