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Premium Member Verbal Miracles
In four and sixty syllables
He strains to squeeze some thoughts profound
Into unyielding manacles
Of 8x8 form, tightly-bound.
He seeks to hand-pick words that sound
Unforced by metric obstacles
That...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unforced, writing,
Form: Lay



Premium Member Flowers and Arrows
Multicolored hands dissolved the pain, that rose within me
You were there; certain you'd win your part in the ring
Condescension became sparks I used as light...

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Categories: unforced, bullying,
Form: Light Verse
Corazón Y Alma
walk softly in
rest your weary head
and listen...

the same
              rhythm
   ...

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Categories: unforced, love, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ins-Pir-Ation
When folly leads; to wisdom…
By the way of endless dreams
'Pon a backdrop psycadellic where, 
There's nothing all it seems’

I have struggled with good reason
made forays...

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Categories: unforced, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As You Say My Name
Within a moment's grace
She held my heartbeat against her gentle dialect

Her pearly smile and chocolate diamond retinas
Prescribed laughter, as she
Incompletely
Spoke my name

Vowels tripping against her...

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Categories: unforced, life, woman,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To a Person, They Say, Frigid, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: a Celle Que L'On Dit Froide
To the person, they call, frigid, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : A celle que l’on dit froide

(Poem written on September 5, 1889 at Aix-les-Bains,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unforced, emotions, woman,
Form: Quatrain
Give Thanks
It’s okay if it ends now.
Quite fine if it stops here.
Never expected the joys I’ve had.
Children. Amazing. The best. 
Their innocence, their laughter, their passion...

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Categories: unforced, appreciation, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Love So True
A love so true burns deep
                   ...

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Categories: unforced, feelings, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tennis Anyone
Starting with the toss up
I’ve made an unforced error
I’ve only gone and followed through
Squeezed the jissom out the old fella
New balls (and pants) please –...

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Categories: unforced, humorous, rude, sexy, silly,
Form: Light Verse
The Lost
Our minds in mouths agape
When lost the game at Ashe
Our minds with you in pains
Shaking we are in silence

Aces lost in paces
Paces of your races
Sour...

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Categories: unforced, inspiration, lost, sports,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Not On Demand
Original expression comes unforced,
not on demand.
Not meeting the schedule of any man.
Words are written matching the rhythm and lyrics of the soul.
To build bridges of...

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Categories: unforced, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Freedom
The feeling I get,
so irresistable and impetuous 


The joy fills in me,
while I relish the world for free


So uncontrolled and unforced,
unbidden nor uncontrived


Nice to meet...

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© Yoni Abai  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unforced, appreciation, beauty, blessing, dream,
Form: Blank verse
De-Un
I'm not Deranged just Derailed,
Deraptured with the Devolution of Angels,
The Devilization of a Nation,
Decorum Demands that I Devalue individualism,
Some Decadent, Dilenquent, Despot shouts 
"Our hair...

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Categories: unforced, urbanhair, universe,
Form: Free verse
Tennis Love
Two sets
  Apiece
To each player
And this is the
    Final set... 
What a contest! 
Both the players
Fighting to win
   The...

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Categories: unforced, love, sports,
Form: Free verse
When It Comes, Again
I can never write a poem 
when I am told to write a poem. 
It comes randomly        like...

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© Pippi B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unforced, creation,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs