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Premium Member First Rose of May
How beautiful is what I see today
          peeking from the green
     ...

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Categories: uses, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother's Apron
Mother wore an ample apron
to cover her clean dress.
She'd tell you that's what it was for
if you asked her, I would guess.

But that apron had...

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Categories: uses, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Intrusion In the Fray:Response To Tom
Forgive intrusion in the fray
I'm making comments today
Tom's limericks, three
were cute as can be
But of Kim and Jack, I must say.....

We all know how well...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: uses, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Mon Chevalier
He rides laughter like he owns it
exclamation marks
exhileration online

Mon chevalier galant
who uses music for shield
pen for glaive

Who writes warmth
through cold white days
and sometimes silence

He'll walk...

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Categories: uses, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Multi-Tasking
Wearing wireless headphones as I listen to the news.
I'm outside watching children playing, taking in the views.
There is screaming in my ears two voices disagree.
A...

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Categories: uses, care,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Wind and Sea
The Wind and Sea


The mighty wind unleashed its gusty song 
     across the tranquil, undulating sea,
and stirred her body with his...

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Categories: uses, sea, wind,
Form: Tritina
Premium Member Expenditures
Time is boundless when you're young.
You want school days to fly
so in summer you'll be sprung
loose upon the world. Touch sky,
Butterfly! Vitality is yours; songs...

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Categories: uses, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Endless Chorus of Tears - Diana Ross Tribute
Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: uses, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Only the Moon Understands
No stars tonight, yet eyes transcend towards bright moonlight.
Oh Moon, without words, we converse in lone quiet moonlight.

Angst of two hearts apart, shows in somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: uses, angst, moon, romance,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: uses, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: uses, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member O' Cenobite, Dar'Est Thy Soul Await
O' Cenobite, Dar'est Thy Soul Await

Alas! By what right is such assailing
amidst uproar, then half-truths a'telling
Does not morn gift upon grass falling dew
yet truth perseveres...

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Categories: uses, creation, humanity, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Trek Into a Forest Wonderfully Deep, New Dawn- Second Battle, Part Two
A Trek Into A Forest Wonderfully Deep,
(New Dawn- Second Battle, Part Two) 

This vista, newfound view image of divine scene
fertile virgin ground, pretty as a...

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Categories: uses, appreciation, art, conflict, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Oya-Goddess of Wind
At the dawn of life
Gods came with their wonders:
Obantala came with art and creation;
He was the one that moulded man;
Ogun came with iron,
It was Ogun...

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Categories: uses, god,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Racist Rant
Our POTD is now black versus white.
We are going to see a racist rant in plain sight.
It’s sad when a poet, uses their pen as...

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Categories: uses, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs