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Premium Member Love's Reflection
Love neither gives or takes but from itself.
Be not wiled by fantasies of arrogance.
Take no more than is offered by yourself.
Leave nothing trapped in tortured...

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Categories: tortured, giving, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Wordless Sky
If I don't write, I'm doomed to die
and lie beneath a wordless sky
A silent corpse, unseen, unheard
alive yet dead-  is that absurd?

If rhymes don't...

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Categories: tortured, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: tortured, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
She Calls Me Home
She Calls Me Home…

At days long end
Left on troubles shore
When I just know
I can't take anymore
When the last light
Of hope is gone

She calls me home
She...

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Categories: tortured, angst, caregiving, childhood, devotion,
Form: Couplet
The Artist
Stillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed  on a fine palette
and a...

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Categories: tortured, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tortured, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
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: tortured, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Cherokee Tears
Cherokee Tears

ceremonial drums' rhythmic heartbeat
impassioned tribal chants
echo in Smoky Mountain mist before dawn

tortured spirit of an ignoble president
Andrew Jackson seems imprisoned here
haunted by wailing ghosts...

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Categories: tortured, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life is a song
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tortured, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
Amid the Jagged Shadows
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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
                ...

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Categories: tortured, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slave
Like a herd of cattle, placed on a ship.
Upon my back, I felt their whip!
Ripping into my flesh, excruciating pain.
Forced across the big water on...

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Categories: tortured, courage, death, slavery, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
My Hypocrisy
Were I to know your depth’s degree
I’d want to dive quite fearlessly
give all the things required of me
to plunge into our destiny.

Were I to touch...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tortured, desire, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: tortured, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Multi-Tasking
Wearing wireless headphones as I listen to the news.
I'm outside watching children playing, taking in the views.
There is screaming in my ears two voices disagree.
A...

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Categories: tortured, care,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: tortured, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

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