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Premium Member to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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Categories: versed, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet



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: versed, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
If You Were Mine
If you were mine... 

If you were mine…our footsteps would   

dance on moonlit verandas
while candle lit shimmers enticed my smiled reflections
with your arms...

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Categories: versed, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sigh Bereft of Tune
Written: January 20, 2024
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Weary of heartfelt...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: versed, angst, death, earth, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ringing Sea
 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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Categories: versed, appreciation, beach, blue, character,
Form: Personification



The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: versed, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Tied Up
Fresh...novel - ingenuous in this nifty world of poetry
The congregation of well-versed and eloquent poets
Reflexion occupied and inhabited within your bosom
Comments - indited and penned...

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Categories: versed, friendship
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Compose
"One can speak poetry just by arranging colours well,
just as one can say comforting things in music" 
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: versed, art, music, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Oft Woe Is Sorrows, of Mere Mortal Men
Oft Woe Is Sorrows, Of Mere Mortal Men

Of fine artist brush and true poet's pen
oft woe is sorrows, of mere mortal men.
Tho' great the powers,...

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Categories: versed, appreciation, art, assonance, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Regardless of Whom Is
Regardless of whom is… 


Aching, my pen moves, lines hold in place
words found wandering about my heart
Ink dries with tear drop accuracy, streaked
forming in versed...

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Categories: versed, hate, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Road Less Traveled By Us
After our not so delicious meal, we started home
He turned onto our usual well-worn road
Headed west where we bumped across raised railroad tracks
There at the...

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Categories: versed, america, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Ivy and the Brick
It must have felt like love at first,
The clinging of the ivy vines,
Until his rich red heart had burst.

Her tendrils slaked an ancient thirst,
The tender...

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Categories: versed, allegory, heart, red, heart,
Form: Villanelle
Of Highland Breeze
His words like kisses, soft and light,
caress her rose-stained smile,
a heathered breeze on summer nights,
versed whispers to beguile.

With tenderness and silken brush,
sweet inklings of a...

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Categories: versed, love, romancewords,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Case You Missed It - Revisit
My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: versed, writing,
Form: Narrative
If You Were Mine
If you were mine… 


If you were mine…our footsteps would

dance on moonlit verandas while 
candle light flickers enchant my heartbeat
when your arms wrap tightly around...

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Categories: versed, dream, love, romance,
Form: Free verse

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