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Summary of Us
I
               I'm the ground
       ...

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Categories: summary, allusion, literature, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Open Letter To Thomas Jefferson
Open Letter to Thomas Jefferson

You sir, destination unknown, I dare
To address. A son of worthy causes  
For land vast in majesty and vast as
Vast...

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Categories: summary, america, character, patriotic, peace,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Stone Unturned
There are three little words on tiny stones strewn along the floor
of a never-ending stream which runs through a misty moor.
A marvelous moor of uncertainty...

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Categories: summary, love, metaphor, , extended
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us" 

The blood dripped 
off each piranha's 
sharpened fang

acquiescing 
compliant
with tragic complacency

keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours 

stick like Teflon
to the...

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Categories: summary, dark, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Secret Garden Secrets
Coming To The Garden

Long-lost secrets at Misselthwaite Manor.
Mistress Mary moves from self-centeredness to
self-awareness, leading to self-healing.
This tale's secret seems simple but not so.
A space to...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summary, allegory, children, garden, health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Welkin - and - the Influences
1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small...

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Categories: summary, analogy, nature,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member A World Without Pity Part Ii
I will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;

After I had lost a home, where I'd lived...

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Categories: summary, adventure, earth, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Firework Maker's Daughter
She wanders through the town in the morning light, the firemaker's daughter, with her brilliant eyes. Her hair is wild and blazing red, and her...

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© Pranali Vg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summary, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cat and Mouse
Grimm's Fairy Tale:
Cat and Mouse in Partnership

Summary: 

A cat befriends a mouse and is so persuasive about her fondness for the smaller animal that the...

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Categories: summary, animal, cat, children, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Glimpse
It was like a whisper- 
My wife delivered the sad news- 
"Your grandfather was dead."- 
And so he was- 
Her eyes was awfully sad- 
Touched...

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Categories: summary, april, cry, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Waterfalls
Headwaters,
Of the world’s flowing souls,
Cresting to flight and misting rainbows.

Everyone.
Searching for another.
To endure sacrifices behold,

Cascading
Heart’s ladles dip into
Basins of memories in plunge pools.

Waterfalls,
From the rapids...

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Categories: summary, love, metaphor, relationship, river,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Gaia Out Speaks
Queen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.

Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked...

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Categories: summary, earth, gender, god, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member America 101
When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him. ...

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Categories: summary, celebration, patriotic,
Form: Prose Poetry
Elephant Bond, Els Bond
My name is Bond, Els Bond, and I live in Africa where I was born and belong.
On my continent, I do not work solo –...

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Categories: summary, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Birthdays
The Birthdays

You came into the world in the  afternoon
A tiny bundle with red tuff of fine hair
Ready to leave your safe and warm cocoon
Not...

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Categories: summary, birthday, blessing,
Form: Sonnet

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