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Inscrutable Being
'Twas a timeless and starless era of dense obscurity.
But there! a self-perpetuating luminary--the deity:
Being of old, the first around.
No one knows his age... those numbers...

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Categories: subsisted, faith, mysterylife, universe, ,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Never Forget
From Poland hailed your Uncle Max, who in matters of manners was a bit lax,
While from France came Aunt Belle, whom I thought was really...

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Categories: subsisted, death, family, memorial, world
Form: Rhyme
The Beauty of Austria Shattered
I remember the dream of Austria
As the war for me was finally closing 
High in my turret upon the Sherman
I entered this mountain paradise at...

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Categories: subsisted, angst, death, faith, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jimmy, El Nopalero
Nopalero = one who deals with/sells nopales [edible prickly pear cactus leafs/pads]

Aiiiii, Jimmy --
what shall we say, now that you've gone,
worst fear realized:  your...

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Categories: subsisted, abuse, age, angst, cat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 34
All we eat is elk meat, boiled elk, roasted elk, elk jerky
sometimes fried elk if we get bear or whale oil,
oh, and sometimes elk soup,
for...

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Categories: subsisted, adventure, introspection,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Daylight Saving Time
Yesterday, playful children engaged with the outside    
Endlessly enjoying their midsummer day's ride    

Today, another car collision, stuck in...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subsisted, change, depression, loneliness, time,
Form: I do not know?
Oye Urum: Market, Typically African
They assembled and gathered
Like they have done forever
One joining the other and another
Simple, friendly and smiling faces
Trotting calmly to catch the pace
Knowing destination will be...

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Categories: subsisted, city, happy, life, nature,
Form: Pastoral
An Advent
Despite the elapsed time after their ending; after their abjuration - an elapsed time that subsisted like some weary stream without direction - her advent...

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Categories: subsisted, absence, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Judgemental Society
Once Earth was full of wild brutes, 
Hunting animals subsisted their livelihoods. 
Slowly, steadily they learnt upliftment, 
What we accepted later as civilisation. 

Today in...

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Categories: subsisted, career, encouraging, faith, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blossoms Cleared Out
The Blossoms Cleared Out


When she was alive
She talked about the good days
Pineapples and sugarcane
Wild and feral 
She worked in those fields long ago
As a native...

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Categories: subsisted, betrayal, life,
Form: Free verse
Writing Memories
as soon as I spill ink on paper
I can't stop it.
it's like filling 
recollections into the paper
Once subsisted or not


feels forgotten
to recollect the recollections once...

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© Ela Rose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subsisted, feelings, growing up, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Goals Are the Legs of Dreams
Goals Are The Legs Of Dreams
Written: by Miracle Man
January 30, 2021

For years I subsisted on transparent dreams,
then God enlightened me with this fact.
 Ambitions without...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subsisted, blessing, dream, god,
Form: Lyric
A Walk On Water
lapis lazuli offered me 
protection,as I walked 
the land of the dead


being just half woman 
and the shadows puppet,
i subsisted in nowhere
for eons


my darkness ended
as...

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Categories: subsisted, death, fantasy, imaginationme, woman,
Form: Blank verse
Valentine Has Come
Valentine has come
in the smooth dispersal fragrance of the newest blooming flowers
in the thrilled embroidered wings of airborne butterflies
in the sweet songs of spring birds,...

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Categories: subsisted, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Living For a Purpose
Awakening from dreamy fantasies,
Equal to departing birds from their nest
When prime rays of sun wake up Earth.

Towards exploration of world,
Voyaging out of customary dwelling,
For explicit...

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Categories: subsisted, inspiration, journey, life, people,
Form: Free verse

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