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Premium Member Shepherd Who Forgot His Flock
It's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see

sometimes they bleed.

Some say words heal,
but I resist to...

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Categories: surfaces, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Goodbye
I forgot myself today
as melancholic melodies 
overwhelm each beat
of my wandering heart.

The sanctimonious sun deceives
as a bitter breeze breathes
against sullen silent surfaces.

Recycled emotions penetrate
with a...

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Categories: surfaces, absence, i miss you,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Snowflakes

There's a magic in snowflakes, 
yet their majesty is only momentary -

just like you, 
          ...

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Categories: surfaces, analogy, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Insignificant Life - Collaboration With the Seeker
That godless sound
His head explodes at 6:01am
Same as every day
He falls out of bed
Steps on the cat
Slides into his slippers
Shuffles to the kitchen
Puts the coffee...

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Categories: surfaces, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arriving
When I close my eyes I hear the sound of your voice floating in the 
air like dandelion fur, catching the breeze and dancing upward.

I...

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Categories: surfaces, adventure, bird, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Teetotaler
In Ordinary Cups

The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in...

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Categories: surfaces, memory,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Happy
Seasons like emotions fade away.
Where poisonous rain once 
blistered susceptible surfaces,
sapphire skies showcase saffron sun,
silently soothing somber scars.

Yesterday was a vacant colouring book.
Today is a...

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Categories: surfaces, analogy, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Will
I will search for you
when stars seem to be mute
their sparkle shrouded by the cool soot of love's burning root,

I will reach for you
when my...

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Categories: surfaces, desire, heart, i love
Form: Ballad
The Flame of Our Name
Do come, my love, for I insist!
Within the darkest crevices of time, we fight, we cry, I die
As vision gives us knowledge, we descend farther...

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Categories: surfaces, adventure, beautiful, change, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member speechless -
 - breath blushes blue between us ...

you ask the question
THAT question
so, you're requesting rationality, lucidity
when you stand before me dressed in pure starlight
ONLY starlight,...

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Categories: surfaces, metaphor, night, romance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Timeless Cave
Timeless Cave

Hidden deep out of time on a limestone cliff
its entrance for the ages concealed
paw prints of cave bears on soft clay ground
and smoke-stained walls...

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Categories: surfaces, art, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frustrations
As our patience wears thin
We encounter the Moment
Where our frustrations
Boil to the surface

That deep part of us
We choose not to reveal
Even to ourselves
Is the legend...

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Categories: surfaces, emotions, life, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Spoonful of Snow
Big things in small packages, so goes the phrase
       And astounding, a spoonful of snow, in such ways

A thousand...

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Categories: surfaces, appreciation, imagery, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Friends and Lovers Who Agree To Disagree
Any kind of love worth having,
Understands that disagreements happen,
And does not diminish when the first disagreement surfaces,
No, it will stay around and show its true...

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Categories: surfaces, appreciation, blessing, care, character,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Yield
Night rewrites day, transforms the blues
with ink-wash, urges me to forget 

grapples, tasks, drudgery,  
hard surfaces and hardened people as all things 

soften, lighten,...

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Categories: surfaces, moving on, peace, sleep,
Form: Free verse

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