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Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: ten thousand, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Longings of An Old Man
I long to—
Walk one more time
To where the land ends, and the ocean begins
To listen expectantly for the sounds of infant waves
Grasping layers of golden...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ten thousand, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: ten thousand, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: ten thousand, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
When He Came
I waited for him as the soldier comes
With a beating of drums and trumpet call;
But he arrived instead with a quiet tread
That my ears never...

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Categories: ten thousand, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Your love is like a fire
Would you cover me in hydrangeas of healing,
 when cold is the heavy air I breathe,
alone without you, beside me? 

O’ magnolia-chime, melodiously ricocheting~
above silent...

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Categories: ten thousand, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Hogwash
Twas a fine October morning,
one September, last July!
The moon lay thick upon the ground,
the mud shone in the sky!

The flowers sang so sweetly,
the birds were...

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Categories: ten thousand, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
No Sounds of Any Kind Please, Even Silence
The Sounds of Silence
By: Simon & Garfunkle

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I...

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Categories: ten thousand, funny, parody,
Form: Lyric
To She: Drawn To Thy Beauty {quatrain}
Drawn to thy beauty, grace rains down;
     I choose this drowning than a drought – 
Where ten thousand are called mine...

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Categories: ten thousand, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Think of You - a Horrendous Night - 0
I Think Of You - A Horrendous Night (Part 0)

Two a.m....
I open my window 

...a crack,

the dark is blinding.

It is a severe cold outside 
a...

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Categories: ten thousand, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bald Eagle
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*Bald*
*eagle *
*bird of prey,*
*lives in the wild*
*of remote country,*
*they have powerful wings,*
*razor sharp beak and talons,*
*can soar up to ten thousand feet,*
*adopted by ...

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Categories: ten thousand, america, bird, nature,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member The Maid of Orleans
Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace...

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Categories: ten thousand, christian, conflict, courage, england,
Form: Couplet
Procrastination
Skimming through paragraphs,
I seem to stretch time and shrink my attention 
Underlining words I can't grasp
With my limited span of concentration,
Creating art I can't explain...

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Categories: ten thousand, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Omnipotent: He Knows All
OMNIPOTENT: HE KNOWS ALL


I know today, at this time
You... my son(man), may not wholly know me. 
but, may I ask you...

Have you   taken...

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Categories: ten thousand, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Harvey Denning 1909-1923
Harvey Denning

1909 – 1923


“I saw the universe a thousand times.”
I saw the face of God
Spread out across the sky
Like a million cities on fire.
Like Troy...

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Categories: ten thousand, death, universe,
Form: Epitaph

Book: Reflection on the Important Things