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Premium Member Votive
I asked you for proof.
You turned it back on me,
Saying, proof is not what you need,
Nor is it mine to give.
Only that you believe,
That is all you need.

I wanted a gift 
To give my love.
He wants for nothing;
It’s merely for me,
Comfort for my disbelief.
Nothing seen,...

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Categories: votive, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Votive Vendor's Sylvan Share
Ancient relic your stock declare
Blanched, burnished cloak but meager fare
Your precious pulp carefully lay bare
Crescent, lobed leaves bleed a fathom or share
Nutty residual, fleeting equity you'll readily spare

Sylvan fortress; natural haven
Artfully sculpted; gratuitously graven
Fertile proprietor whose bounty is raven
Perennial bulwark; temporal sanctuary to the craven
Vaulted...

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Categories: votive, nature
Form: Rhyme
The Emotive Votive
sits there flickering with
immense fragrance,
light dancing amongst the
warmth of the “holidays”,
be them pine to fill the room
like a forest, be them apple &
cinnamon to announce that
fabulous fabulous Fall is here---
be them melon scents in the 
Spring/Summer or berries in
Winter, whatever your liking,
they simply coax a...

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Categories: votive, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Ever Votive
More durable, one's word
  than a powerful locomotive --

Fashions bonds of steel,
  oaths and vows, steadfast, votive...

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Categories: votive, strength, words,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Votive
A vision, for myself,
In the moment:
Wisdom of the right female,
One to go with;

May an oath be always kept,
And held in my charge,
Magna card,
Elect;

Hands interlace,
Need pray,
Select –...

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Categories: votive, how i feel, me,
Form: Lyric
Votive Candles
They come to me in phrases
in couplets newly born

Screaming from the highest places
fitted but unworn

They come to me in dreamsleep
the moon recycled new

Time released in words immortal
—scratched into the pew

(The New Room: February, 2024)
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Categories: votive, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Magnolia Tree
Cupped white, dusky pink. 
Satin gills softly breathing,
Catalyst of spring.
Pert, prayerful votive lights
Opening like fledgling beaks...

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Categories: votive, nature, seasons, spring, tree,
Form: Tanka
Reading Secret Heart
Find out Jang can one's motive,
When ones glances are furtive.
Then,Jang can reach secret heart
And bare lay it like A chart
Veiled thoughts soon to him native:
The ones you wouldn't out give...

Catch I can next man's motive
From his mood that got pensive,
From sounds suddenly plosive;
"No money for...

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Categories: votive, cry, imagination, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme
Punishing a Defaulting Unionist
Loosen now his tight valves.
You do nothing by halves 
Not like you've bruised his calves
While he's not got what salves...

His tube deflate through valve:
With six-inch nail hit valve,
The air in tube to halve;
When cops into it delve,
Say "A case of mad valve!"

Ask me my opinion:
It's...

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Categories: votive, allusion, betrayal, conflict, people,
Form: Rhyme

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