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Premium Member Let Truth Through
In peace and quiet, I sit here waiting,
For truth that's worthy of relating.
I’ve cleared my mind from all distraction,
Now it’s ready for interaction.

If wisdom is...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unaltered, freedom, inspiration, introspection, light,
Form: Rhyme



Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34
I listened to his heart profusely, 
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with...

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Categories: unaltered, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings,
Form: Epic
Tailored Words
In the dark light of this winter morn, I see
The clothes that I am expected to wear
(Though, maybe, the fault of illusion lies with me)
From...

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Categories: unaltered, introspection, love, on writing
Form: Quintain (English)
For the Children
On the brow of manhood I bore you
Dreaming of a successor to my throne
Invested wind and echo full of dew
Native prince, that was ever all...

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Categories: unaltered, familyparents, prayer, love, me,
Form: Acrostic
Fragments of You
Her perfume scent lingers

triggering lives with shots of translucent recurring images and flickering pages, 

permanently installed unto memories and times

that unfurl bringing

to us unaltered,

visions of...

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Categories: unaltered, on writing and words
Form: I do not know?



Feathered Thoughts
Tranquil thoughts
breathing
of slow kissed sights
comforted 
in expelling this light
languorous trembled gaze

A mask promising nothing
yet yearning to taste 
now pushed aside

Risking this pull 
stakes everything

Claims made...

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Categories: unaltered, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edvard Munch, The Woman and the Bear
"show me your face"
growls subside upon revelation 
does your countenance veil mine?
I see beyond sight and temporality 

still full of sorrow, though drawn in
indisputably realised...

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Categories: unaltered, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member My 51st Marriage Anniversary
A hand was put in my hand
I remember fifty years back
I still hold that hand firmly
Today unaltered.

Our wedding was accomplished
Exactly fifty one years back
The celebrations...

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Categories: unaltered, wedding
Form: Dodoitsu
Navajo Dreamer
Argent moons myriad known, beneath an endless zenith sky
When hotter suns unaltered and stars ruled as aperture fever of a night
Around a fire this Naabeeho...

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Categories: unaltered, native american, earth, prejudice,
Form: Lyric
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unaltered, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Finding a Long Lost Love
If only I could feel

Your magic touch

That I've longed for 

For an eternity it seems

Feel the love

Pure and unaltered

By time by distance

A lasting forever love

That...

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Categories: unaltered, love,
Form: Narrative
This Plant Is Not a Drug
This Plant is Not a Drug		(Robert Denton, March 2017)

This plant is not a drug,
It is a plant.
You can cut off its flower bud
Then hang it...

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Categories: unaltered, humanity, peace, prayer, truth,
Form: Free verse
A Cogent Shot
The night was too tide
When I sticked with my last
So embraced with the maid
In the middle of the light

She is certain superb of the maids
The...

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Categories: unaltered, absence, addiction, betrayal, cute
Form: Alexandrine
A Wander Site
Oh! This train so superb
So still of lots dreams
Many of which we all absorb
The state full of huge worries
A state to get in unwillingly.

To one...

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Categories: unaltered, conflict, confusion, heartbreak, identity,
Form: Alexandrine
The Poet
It is a fever.

  
The poet

They found the poet outside the park

His steps spoke many words of wine

His upper half seemed half asleep

And his...

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Categories: unaltered, depression, family, imagination, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things