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Premium Member Soul Embrace
Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul

A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse...

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Categories: the pit, age, child, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Thats When I Fall Down Upon My Knees, Song Version
Updated lyrics May 19,2020 to flow better.

THAT’S WHEN I FALL DOWN UPON MY KNEES

There’s no way- 
I’ll see another sunrise
My hope is gone-
as I'm contemplating...

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Categories: the pit, depression, feelings, god, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Come Into My House Lord
For Brother Jacob, our fellow poet,
who lives his life
real and true to the call of God:

COME INTO MY HOUSE LORD

Come into my house Lord.
Anoint my...

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Categories: the pit, christian, family,
Form: Verse
My Rose Was Not Seasonal
 My cherished one...

Here I am ,alone with stone wall paper

in the silence of my room.

The pit-pattering raindrops upon my windowsill 

help me to remember,...

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Categories: the pit, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The House of Spirits
It looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the pit, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: the pit, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member He's Mr Know It All - Now a Collaboration
Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's...

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Categories: the pit, humorous, voice,
Form: Limerick
Like An Autumn Sun
 I  thought I had forgotten
the end of summertime,
I thought I stopped remembering
that last night you were mine.

Moments side by side
before fresh petals dried.

But...

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Categories: the pit, desire, dream,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Voice of the Last Acorn
Image credit: Wikipedia


People amble by in view of the placid lake
Mesmerized by horizon adorning scarlet
While not far from the Oak tree, I stealthily lay
Enthralled in...

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Categories: the pit, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: the pit, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House

This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is...

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Categories: the pit, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - a Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness -
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates a murder time and time again, 
As the...

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Categories: the pit, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ancient Shadows Awaken Into God's Light
Ancient Shadows Awaken into God’s Light

Underneath the deep seabed the stirring sands of time have passed on.
Ancient shadows continue to haunt all of us from...

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Categories: the pit, dark, dream, evil, faith,
Form: Narrative
I Wondered
Last night I lay in the darkness of my room 
like i always do 
Me, a dim lamplight and thoughts of you 
my only companions...

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Categories: the pit, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sifting Sand From My Soul
If I had but one last sorrowful day of my life left,
there would be words I would say without delay.
Too long have I struggled, uncertain...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the pit, feelings, for him,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs