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Premium Member Tropes On My Island
Tropes On My Island


To go to Tonga like this had not been my plan

Recommended though it was on the lonely planet

Om mantras were now my...

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Categories: tropes, growth,
Form: Acrostic



Rhythmic Perfection (Anapestic Trimeter)
There's a river that twists in the mind
that I plunder and ravish with sieves,
on crusades to the summit of rhyme
where my Phoenix of tropes and...

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Categories: tropes, imagination, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Omg, That's So Cliche
It's raining cats and dogs on a dark and stormy night -
with such a stroke of genius, a poet starts to write.
Inane clichés he's banging...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tropes, poetry, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member White Shoulder Dreams
Oh the images we freeze in time

the sweet, sweet scents that bring recall

the sharp and painful longing that belongings bring

for those lost or lingering on...

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Categories: tropes, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Solstice
Cloudless sky, naked shades of azure.
Oh, summer vibrant, resplendent sun,
We thank Lugh for his longest luster,
Grateful for the bounty he gives everyone.

Sun lights awareness in...

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Categories: tropes, happiness, hope, myth, mythology,
Form: Sonnet



Pen Meet Paper
What in the ink whorl is papièr churl going on?

Ill quill vapors are trying to victimize me,
vex prose don’t belong
Word saber player haters trying to...

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Categories: tropes, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, slam,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member To Paint With Words
To paint with words and colored phrase,
          We breathe new speech and set ablaze
  ...

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Categories: tropes, appreciation, art, metaphor, poems,
Form: Rondeau
Two Poets
There were two poets I use to know
One upon words would blow
Like an abeng, and tell of battles
In the heart, where history rattles
Us still, driving...

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Categories: tropes, dedication, on work and
Form: Verse
Premium Member Mozart Requiem
Written: February 13, 2023
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An anathema for,
pilose nettle burns,
an art form of unstable feathers,
tropes across...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tropes, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, music,
Form: Free verse
A Message For Humanity
Masticate this thought for me, reader.
Basic stories of characters with settings and plot.
Occasional works of obscure fiction written in flamboyant diction. 
Maybe television shows or...

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Categories: tropes, dark, introspection, life, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Viking Kenning's Field
where bones are picked cleaned by talons crook's of raven-wives               ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tropes, change, education, history, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Falling Into Books
And I disappeared back into the books,
Whirling in a seamless stream of context,
By whose scarlet blood I assumed some looks,
Forevermore ready for what was next.

From...

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Categories: tropes, books, identity, inspirational, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Le Catamaran
Spent your whole life scrawling runes in the sand
your whole world etched out in tropes
arcs from beginning and end unto skyline
been there done that, I...

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© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tropes, allegory, art, fantasy, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Beauty
All the poets I invited.
"Mull over Beauty". I asked.
To their waiting inkpots they hied.
On their prolific imagination they relied.

The senses they all becomingly exploited.
Awe- inspiring...

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Categories: tropes, love
Form: I do not know?
50 Shades of Gay
Now pick apart
My S E X U A L I T Y
and tell me these traits
That must define me.
From my heads to my tippy toes
Am...

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Categories: tropes, funny, truth,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things