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Premium Member unanswered -
“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.”  -...

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Categories: unanswered, age, analogy, family, father
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sometimes We Don'T Get a Chance To Say Goodbye
sometimes
we don't get a chance
to say goodbye

you sit there
tears in your eyes
wondering why

and

it don't make sense
to be strong
because it stings

you can't explain
the pain each
memory brings

and

the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unanswered, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: unanswered, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unanswered, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme
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: unanswered, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Disorientation
You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Categories: unanswered, angst, death, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Searching For You
I walk upon a green feathered hilltop
                  ...

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Categories: unanswered, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Raspberry Ruins
In a world bejeweled 
with tainted trinkets,
and feigned flowers,
we follow the 
wailing waves below 
whirling wind,
like secluded silhouettes,
stranded on the
cusp of chaos,
unable to find the...

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Categories: unanswered, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
9 11
America the Free  ~             America the Brave ~
    ...

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Categories: unanswered, america, city, death, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed...

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Categories: unanswered, childhood,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Forsaken On This Day
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a muddle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust,as the air 
resists this heart's unanswered questions
howling about this litany of a crushed promise:...

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Categories: unanswered, betrayal, heart, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Falsehood -
Is there still a rainbow after the rain?
An unanswered message, life is full of lies

Darkness falls - like a thief steals the daylight
I get confused...

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Categories: unanswered, confusion, deep, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Penny For Your Thoughts
It is in the grey of icy evenings
When those dimly-lit wishes seem to fade,
A bitter nip, a woe this season brings
The chafing of hope's ardor,...

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Categories: unanswered, deep, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Aborted Vow
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a tangle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust, quivering
unto fissure of grass where my heart scrapes,
as if the air denies unanswered questions
so...

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Categories: unanswered, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rain
Last time it rained was in April.
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Categories: unanswered, rain,
Form: Haibun

Book: Reflection on the Important Things