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Premium Member In Strangler's Wood - Tanka Version
At a dead man’s throat

lies the rain drenched woolen scarf

that stifled his screams.

Cold Winds howl through decayed trees -

witnesses in the shadows....

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Categories: version, autumn, mystery, rain,
Form: Tanka



Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: version, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric
Thats When I Fall Down Upon My Knees, Song Version
Updated lyrics May 19,2020 to flow better.

THAT’S WHEN I FALL DOWN UPON MY KNEES

There’s no way- 
I’ll see another sunrise
My hope is gone-
as I'm contemplating...

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Categories: version, depression, feelings, god, hope,
Form: Lyric
My Heart Has Found a Home-Song Version
My heart has found a home (Song version)

So many years alone-
my hearts without a home
Nights were filled with fear-
my heart shed a tear

My loneliness had...

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Categories: version, for her, heart, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Another Lovers Touch Song Version
Another lover's touch


There's never been a love,
that's ever been enough...
You keep searching for...
another lover's touch


Why do I even try,
I should  stop wasting time...
You say...

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Categories: version, betrayal, heartbreak, longing, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTD
POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...

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Categories: version, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remarks of a Prig
I'm hearing rumors that are easy to believe
but none of them give me reason to grieve
You've been telling people their poetry sucks
Words from your mouth...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: version, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Perfect Christmas Tree
We ventured out into the woods one day
Trying to find the perfect Christmas tree
A beautiful fir all will want to come and see
Planning to cut...

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Categories: version, beauty, bird, christmas,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member A Book
(PoetrySoup Format) 
. . . To be precisely placed ‘pon your shelf:
between, “Great Expectations and “Gone with the Wind,”
a best seller, “The Notebook, against the...

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Categories: version, books, longing, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Advice
Do not look to me with questioning eyes
For i do not possess the answers you seek 
i cannot taste the bitter sweetness on your tongue,
or...

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Categories: version, change, drink, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member During Sex I'M Often Naked
You can't make someone love you all you can do 
is be someone who can be loved.The rest is up to them.

No matter how much...

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Categories: version, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Solo Dancer - Tanka To Sonnet
Alone atop a hill,
   an ornamental willow
             dances in the breeze.
Long...

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Categories: version, beautiful, tree, sun, tree,
Form: Sonnet
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: version, sea, wind,
Form: Tritina
Cantas En Mi Corazon - Sing In My Heart - a Collaboration With Michael P Clarke
Cantas en mi Corazon 
Una Colaboración con Michael P. Clarke

Spanish Version - Free Verse

Ven en mis brazos, tu templo tan cerca de mí,
Estoy perdido en...

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Categories: version, happiness, true love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED - POTD
POTD 23 Mar 2024 

THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.

Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, was...

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Categories: version, inspirational, journey, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs