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Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: true, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Summers Eve
~Summer’s Eve ~


I am a woman!
I am proud-

I am everything you want. 
Plus more
The adoring wife,
A beautiful mother, 
A grandmother a granddaughter 
A daughter, a...

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Categories: true, beautiful, grandmother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...

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Categories: true, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member summer rain -
I wade into the surf and stand alone

                 ...

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Categories: true, bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Age of Summer Love
Our summer love began in Gemini 
with sultry eves of wooing escapades,
and as the moon did swoon as it drew nigh
my lust you stirred with...

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Categories: true, romantic love, sensual, summer,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member breath to breath -
they say to mend an injured heart, move on
      and thus I've done so, time-and-time- again
    ...

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Categories: true, analogy, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: true, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Measure of Love
How does one measure love in scope or scale?
  For if such ledger ever was designed
Then logic would over the heart prevail.
  So...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: love, true love,
Form: Sonnet
Laid To Rest
Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: true, bereavement, best friend, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Love Letter To the West
I can't recall the day you left
 Empty words going west

~To The West Coast~

My love, my sweet love -- my soulmate
I will cherish our time,...

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Categories: true, deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its stream  

Saturating me with...

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Categories: desire, destiny, passion, true
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts...

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Categories: true, fate, lost love, memory,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member This Is Love
Twilight's aurora seems so perfect.

Lustrous shades of clementine, 
caressing vivid violet visions.

Majestic moon enlightens,
as shadows come to life.

Flashes of light, 
pierce through a black blanket.

Love...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: passion, romantic love, true
Form: Alliteration
Love Will Come To You
Love will come to you

Are you feeling lost and all alone?
searching for love, searching for love
Is your heart still looking for it's home?
searching for love,...

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Categories: true, introspection, longing, love, soulmate,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member My Darling Little One, You Carried Me
A hardened and disciplined man drove to the grocery store lost in thought, 
with setting of sun, the long day's work almost found it's end.
Hoisting...

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Categories: true, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs