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Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tested, easter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tested, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Do Things Come From
our mental simulator is the incubator 
     of our physical illustration
          our...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tested, creation, desire, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Where Poetry Lives
His  poems live deep down in the wood
down in an olde hunting lodge
They are brown as the bears head that 
hangs on the wall
brown...

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Categories: tested, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
What If
What If

  You live in a Matrix that you don't know, what is really happening around you.
That there are people that wish to control...

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Categories: tested, allusion, america, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Words of Value
So many words l value
I will only mention a few
These are words l “try”to live by
Though not always easy to do

Life is an absolute blessing...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tested, appreciation, life,
Form: Rhyme
Rejected
12/21/19


Not going to pretend it
I've been feeling rejected
And disrespected
Nothing I said and did
Was effective
Time I take a sedative
Or maybe 10 of them

Was fine one minute...

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Categories: tested, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boozer Not a Loser
A billionaire, he knew each wine by name

Todd Worthington of inheritance fame

      Blindfolded he taste-tested

     Fans...

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Categories: tested, funnywine,
Form: Limerick
Mackenzie Trail
When doves on evenings, calm and still, call out a hollow tone,
They rouse a medley, old as time, so few have ever known.
The whispered lines...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tested, adventure, cowboy-western, historyold, horse,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Children of the Divine Wind
Many times the ocean 
has saved Nippon,     pearl of the sea,
an oceanic symbiosis  a speck in a fecund see.
The dikes...

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Categories: tested, history, inspirational, introspection, natural
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly You Cannot See
Once a caterpillar between a dream and reality thought she could be beautiful
~so on she dreamed...
Creating a shell to protect
under the bright new moon

The Cocoon~

Inside...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tested, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Tiptoe
Tiptoe, tiptoe, what they say is not what they say it is . . . 

Cameras rolling, take one, action! 
“How stupid can you be?...

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Categories: tested, political, power, presidents day,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Exposing My Error
September 24 Scripture Meditations Based on Mark 11-12

Key Verse– Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know...

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Categories: tested, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mediclueless, a Hypochondriac's Lament
I feel I have appendicitis,
Or a bad case of bursitis,
And I think I need another tonsillectomy.
I'm sure I got a staph infection
From a tetanus injection
While...

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Categories: tested, health, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Skinny Dipping In Bygone Years
With her first words she mesmerized his soul,
Of rose water and lavender was her aroma,
Her tip tap of her fairy tale walk was majestic,
A woman...

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Categories: tested, marriage,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things