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Premium Member Bloom Road


               Bloom Road



Wherefore be this heavenly place?
Untouched by the metropolis'
inhumane demands?
Tis in your heart, dear friend, such 
a place...

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Categories: wherefore, courage, encouraging, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member An Existentialist Asks---What Is Life
What is life?

Euphonies, cacophonies and chromosomal anomalies
intertangled destinies and illusive methodologies 

Occurring in obscure dimensionless time
Millenniums fertilized to create the sublime

Perceived by ideations so pure...

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Categories: wherefore, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: wherefore, evil,
Form: Rhyme
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: wherefore, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we...

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Categories: wherefore, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Mirror, In The Line Of Fire: POTW
''Reflection of two world faith's, they're [+ & -] for now, HAIL, the created who followed their rules, be 'change' in their faith that bear's...

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Categories: wherefore, analogy, games, imagery, life,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member A Memorial To Martin Luther King Jr
Words would fail me if I might assay
To articulate the courage of this man.
The numerous facets of his dossier
Are subject for song in a distant...

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Categories: wherefore, death, dedication, faith, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blessed Blissful Wedding
In God’s perfect time
their hearts tied by love divine
now wondrously bear marriage contract seal
upon sublime altar date
conquering pandemic’s threat
through faith in the omnipotent Saviour
along His...

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Categories: wherefore, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Epithalamium
Premium Member I Smote Thy Heart- Richard Pickett
" I Smote Thy Heart" 

by~ Richard Pickett

Upon the morrow, I shall take aim
with this slender feathered shaft at the heart of thee,
it shall pierce...

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Categories: wherefore, confusion, death, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Romeo Improv Un-Recorded
Thou lay'st like a rose on deaths pillow
Silent and still, unsoothed by lifes request
Asleep the dawns and days of all and all
Eternity. My lovely Juliet
Wherefore...

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Categories: wherefore, death, lovelife, death, art,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Romancing the Poet
"Romancing the Poet"




Ah ‘ku wherefore art thou?
LimaLimaBrava
Laptop Dancing




(LadyLabyrinth/2019)












 
"You Got Mail" 
https://youtu.be/WXLPNi3xLDc
...

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Categories: wherefore, dance, humorous, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Visit to Heaven


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Categories: wherefore, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Maquillage
Your precious youthful portrait you polish,
Till thy cheeks dye rose and yellow seems gold.
Seeking praise her truth she shall embellish,
Concealing blemish under manifold
Brushes in prayer...

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Categories: wherefore, beauty, body, confidence, courage,
Form: Sonnet
Journey
They spoke in a singular language
A language none but they could know
She with the moonlight in her eye
He with the hush of fallen snow

They moved...

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Categories: wherefore, journey, language, moon, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Ties Welcoming
Family ties welcoming with warm bliss
midst kiss and hugs of every brod and sis
contagious laughter of exuberance...
exude our ancestral house we can’t miss.

Thus, in passing...

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Categories: wherefore, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Shattered Sighs