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Premium Member Last Letter
Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...

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Categories: temple, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: temple, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
Images of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...

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Categories: temple, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Peephole That Is the Moon
An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a...

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Categories: temple, faith, god, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temple, analogy, death, lost,
Form: Free verse



Solitude
Incessant din of jammed highways
suddenly lulled to deserted streets
quiet of rustle forlorn breeze plays
laughter of birds, smiling sun greets

diamond dews glisten ruby petals
on a palette...

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Categories: temple, self, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: temple, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity or Death

Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming, 

Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...

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Categories: temple, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: temple, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Premium Member - In Norwegian It's Called - Lykken I Livet -
How blessed I am that you are in my life
Amazing grace whistles through the valleys one tune

You make my body sizzle with your kisses
Fireflies light...

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Categories: temple, beauty, celebration, heart, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and...

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Categories: temple, i love you, inspirational,
Form: 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temple, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Promise
'There is no silence in poetry.'

As I swing back and forth,
surrounded by an abundance of petals,
I still remember being a stranger,
in a foreign land.

Sun shone...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temple, love, poetry, romantic love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Butterflies
BUTTERFLIES

Clouds passing by swiftly.
Like the desert sands,
tiny grains rest in my hand.
Here I lay peaceful on the ground.
My life finally reached its final strand.
Breathing faintly...

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Categories: temple, death, life, me, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: temple, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs