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Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the works, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member Ice Cream
''Like Ice Cream''

Having ice cream with you, 
Brightens the entire portrait in my youth.
Like catnip for a cat 
-- the     Reese's...

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Categories: the works, boyfriend, fun, happiness, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: the works, community, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the works, moving on,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member If It Wasn't For Poetry-
In love with poetry, spellbound am I-
by force, that takes me to the land of words.
Beyond control, this power has its way
that leads me to...

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Categories: the works, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Bloom In Red Flame
Underneath all the layers
Of tradition
Of religion 
Of philosophy
Of reason and understanding
I smolder
In passion's pleasure bed of red
Paroxysms of pleasure
Emanate from my core
Searing the shroud
Flames of...

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Categories: the works, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Blessings In the Loving Arms of Jesus
Blessings are real
Blessings are true
Blessings are sent from God to you

Early in the mornings 
In late afternoons
Blessings despite the gloom and doom

Blessings are free
Blessings will...

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Categories: the works, blessing, jesus, motivation,
Form: Verse
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: the works, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
On Poetry Soup
 A first day on Soup is filled with much awe
The wonderful poems will make you smile
Easy is it to fall for all
Some enabled my...

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Categories: the works, friend, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: the works, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Leap of Faith

               maybe
my works are only writes
   should poetry speak...

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Categories: the works, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He and She
He swings his arms and strides ahead
     She walks three steps behind

The center of the universe
     Cares...

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Categories: the works, abuse, fear, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: the works, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Welcome To My World -The Cost of Happiness-
~TAKE MY MONEY ~

Crimson Joy, L'Oreal Lips, DOLCE & GABBANA eyewear 
Mascara from beyond LONDON Bridges
Like the pretty face found in front of Vanity Fair
What...

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Categories: the works, abuse, addiction, adventure, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Like Magic
Love is like magic
And it always will be.
For love still remains
Life's sweet mystery!!
Love works in ways
That are wondrous and strange
And there's nothing in life
That love...

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Categories: the works, lovesweet, love, sweet,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs