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Premium Member The Ballad of the Poet
*The Dead Poet*

Many blocks along the road, 
Kicking down walls of heavy stones, 
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...

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Categories: verses, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: verses, addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member no poet am I -
a poet, you say? pardon no, not am I
there's only ONE poet - He writes on the
       sky
of sunsets...

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Categories: verses, blessing, faith, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verses, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Joined By Words
~ for my fellow poets ~


as slaves to the pen
or our keyboard, more apt
this molding of words
in a word, holds us rapt

fine fancies or fears
take...

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Categories: verses, appreciation, friendship, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: verses, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
There Is No Telling the Things You Might Find
Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...

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Categories: verses, fun, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: verses, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Our Rainbow of Love
My love, do you ever know...

In your moments of hushed silence, 
I am your sound;

You are the rhythm
of the symphonic waves
in the vast sea 
of...

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Categories: verses, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Poets Come Together As One
Lets flatten the curve with our words and soften our quill.
We are world siblings, showing solidarity through will.
Words that heal are like a prayer in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verses, hope, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Passions I Own
Sensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...

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Categories: verses, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Gently Now, Gently
Thinking of you in crimson dawn rising
Voice of fervid night keeps calling me
Naming the lady of my fabulous dreams
Meet me I say, gleaming amber glory
Start...

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Categories: verses, love, romantic,
Form: Lyric
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: verses, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within...

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Categories: verses, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form: Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: verses, hope,
Form: Rhyme

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