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Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: variations, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variations, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -

- JANUARY -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen...

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Categories: variations, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stillness
I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.

Often I had...

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Categories: variations, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
The Kreutzer Sonata
(In 1807, Beethoven wrote a piano/violin
piece with this title.  Count Leo Tolstoy
followed in 1890, with a short novel of the
same name, in which he...

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Categories: variations, marriage, relationship,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Twelve Angels of Beirut
The Twelve Angels of Beirut

They huddle together in the heavens
Muttering amongst themselves
Confused as any human down below

We bestow upon them the ancient teachings
Not once, not...

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Categories: variations, allah, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Oysters
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Pin 4198: Disney Gallery - Alice in Wonderland Series (Baby Oyster)
Variations on The Walrus and the Carpenter"  a narrative poem by...

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Categories: variations, fantasy, fun, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Exasperation Over Expectations
Today’s students strive only to meet expectations
We used to go all out to exceed expectations
Young people have no real goals, just vague destinations
Their minds seem...

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Categories: variations, angst, schoolpeople, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Kate and Isobel
*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.

Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of...

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Categories: variations, character, friend, girl, hero,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member - April -
Spring marks the end of winter and start of summer
It is lovely with colorful contrasts
Norway is a long country with a lot of mountains and...

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Categories: variations, april, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paper Roses of Love
Image if one will, a field where paper roses grow,
Each color an emotion, it's variations symbolic to 
Feeling felt, and yet expressed.
Compositions of love letters,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variations, beauty, emotions, friendship, imagination,
Form: Free verse
A Mother's Ears
I sometimes feel a unique vibration within
my own ears. My baby’s crying, calling from beneath his quilted,
baby-blues. His sobs rustle the warm sheath of home....

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Categories: variations, baby, dream, mother, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gift
It vibes in harmonics broadband, a musical language universal,
Echoing across the heights divides, falling as a thunderstorms,
Raw force of spiritual power, descending from the heavens...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variations, art, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stone Garden-2
Do the immortals cry, what happens to divinities
Tears, crystal shards of frozen miracles, cascading
From the heavens above, swallowed whole by 
Mother earth.
In the abyss of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: variations, art, beautiful, garden, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Etherees
How

nice are

Etherees.

You simply add

a syllable to

each new line you write till

you finish with line ten. .  . or

start with ten syllables, ending

with one. ...

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Categories: variations, poems, writing,
Form: Etheree

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