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To Breathe "you" In....
Your beautiful name, echoing throughout my thoughts

"Everyday!"....But I never tell you this?

Sometimes when I breathe, I close my eyes to imagine

Breathing, everything that you are,...

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Categories: truer, love, passionme, me,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist,...

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Categories: truer, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
These We'Ll Yet Destroy
Two owls charmed me
moments before I embarked
on the hours of industry to come.
Their silhouettes were dark and secretive,
their voices wistful and low.
I had a moment...

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Categories: truer, environment,
Form: Free verse
A Vegetable Matter
Grandpa’s a gem in the garden,
tending his sprouts and his peas,
tomatoes and onions and cabbage,
his ‘caulies’ and his broccoli’s.

I have seen plenty of gardens,
chocked full...

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Categories: truer, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dragon and Dr Seuss
"Oh, The places You'll Go!"

Dragon was in a slump as the kids all left to go back to school.
So I read to him:“All the Places...

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Categories: truer, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member A Memorial To Martin Luther King Jr
Words would fail me if I might assay
To articulate the courage of this man.
The numerous facets of his dossier
Are subject for song in a distant...

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Categories: truer, death, dedication, faith, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enjoy the Ride
Some days are diamonds, some are stone

To quote an old John Denver hit

Truer words were never spoken

The “stone days” (not stoned days!)

Are only sent to...

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Categories: truer, happy, life,
Form: Narrative
The Death of Robin Hood
‘Come bring my bow of English yew and raise me from this bed
And let me look upon the wood where once I lay my head’
With...

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Categories: truer, imaginationgreen, me,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member I'M Youer Than You
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You"

Dr. Suess

I’m Youer Than You

I studied real...

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Categories: truer, change, dark,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In the Time When the Heart Beat Slows
“In the time when the heart beat slows” 

In the time when 
the heart beat slows
I close my eyes 
and meet you there
that place of...

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Categories: truer, dream, heart, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
For the Love of Lippy
For the love of Lippy I've done it all...
And I would do it all again
For my heart, for my joy, for my friend
Oh what a...

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© Chris Hagy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truer, friendship, horse, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Computer Love
Daydreaming of you is all I seem to do.
Staring at your picture on my computer screen, wishing you were here staring back at me.
Your my...

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Categories: truer, boyfriend, desire, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Moment of Bliss
A love so pure......
Refined
A union so sure...........
Entwined
                  ...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truer, devotion, love, passionlove,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jersey Maid
Bright blonde-haired girl
competitive
From the start, made a nine
Mile ride
With a spirited heart, straight
to the 
Summit of Telegraph Hill, I’ll
guess
She freewheeled back ‘just for
the thrill’

A gifted...

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Categories: truer, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poem Is
The poem is a beautiful garden
Yet the visiting admirer 
Sees only the surface
Beautiful?
Colorful?
Chaotic?
Orderly?
Are the tidy, straight rows of strawberries
Indicative of a neat, colorful gardener?
Or are...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truer, mystery, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs