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Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: wells, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bastard
"All Children Are Beautiful"

His heart of white,   deep shallow wells,   -yet beautiful
He smirks with a grin,  an ego that won't...

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Categories: wells, art, beauty, betrayal, child,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Gathering Wool
Cleaning out one of your drawers,
I remove your beautiful woven sweaters
     one    by    one
 ...

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Categories: wells, lost love,
Form: Free verse
My Only Hope
I fell asleep one dreary day
I lost my will, I lost my way
I ran from all I ever knew
And feared the call I was supposed...

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Categories: wells, faith, life, rap, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity or Death

Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming, 

Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...

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Categories: wells, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Jesus Was Turkish
A strange claim
Of a man of passion
Of kindness
He said
Let the children come to me
For what man would refuse the smile
The innocence of a child
He parted...

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Categories: wells, age, animal, bible, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wells, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Price of Paradise
We don't talk about it
Since hands upon the clock have ceased to move
When minutes creep, on skittish feet
The walls grow small~

By blue degrees, she drowns...

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Categories: wells, death, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry
Often I harken back
to a very wise poet,
how “life is but a stage”

of tender moments
splashed and splattered
by fierce jabs of passionate 
heated rage 

such opera...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wells, art, inspirational, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Defying Predictability
With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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Categories: wells, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finding God
FINDING GOD

My hungry heart and thirsty soul yearns for refill...
Darkness and light roll then turn me up and down.
Laughter and cries conjure caress my being...

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Categories: wells, bible, faith, god, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
I Can'T Breathe
I can’t breathe

still in my shackles
no chance to escape my isolation
cries of anguish emancipated
from an awareness that is unfree
the stain is but human made
a long...

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Categories: wells, emotions, faith, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Will You Catch Me
If I should reach out, will you take my hand,
and hold me ‘til I reach that promised land?
Will you stay with me after tears have...

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Categories: wells, courage, depression, faith, loss,
Form: Sestina
This Crazy Heart of Mine
My heart        a sky of sunny spells
Of passing clouds and  falling tears

Sometimes it shines   ...

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Categories: wells, heart, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh Captcha Squares
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

  ...

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Categories: wells, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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