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Premium Member Reflection
**REFLECTION**

Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, abuse, death, for her,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: tormented, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: tormented, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Beyond the Bloom of Starlight
Beyond the sun's celestial dominion, 
past purple shimmers of twilight,
I delve far beyond moonlight's golden glow 
into the darkness of pilloried memories,
continually searching for answers...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Brothers Ii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: tormented, cute, immigration, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Magic Beans
It was magic beans you placed in my hand as we held
Ones you nurtured,  embedded deep within your love
I know because it tormented me with...

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Categories: tormented, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freudian Slip
A poet's soul lay in slumber,
his pen a distasteful adversary. 

A suffering soul lost in yesterday,
stumbled upon his somnolent path.
Enchanted eyes felt her nakedness 
through...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tormented, angst, deep, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Hell
Damned by the devil's curse upon my heart
I pace the lonely bridge twixt love and hate
Stalked by death's shadow from the very start
Forsaken by the...

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Categories: tormented, angst, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await
(I.)
Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await

Ripe are swelled grapes upon glowing vine
my darling on love's bounty we shall dine
in our paradise rests more than a...

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Categories: tormented, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Journal
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
David Levithan

I will forever be...

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Categories: tormented, angst, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 365 Days
"This is dedicated to all who understand this. Whether we like it or not." -D.J.E.

I wasn’t gonna write this

But

Emotions are stirring high
Cannot believe
How much time...

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Categories: tormented, anniversary, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs