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Premium Member The Love of a Gentleman
There is a place where the land bows down to kiss the misty tide,
Where rolling waves bring memories of the place my heart resides.
There among...

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Categories: while away the hours, family, fishing, love, sun,
Form: Quatrain



Love Me More
A month of gentle loving May,
With fields awake with flowers;
On a woodland path we play,
In a moonlit dream’s sweet hours;
With a hope that had no...

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Categories: while away the hours, love, me, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Year
This year more than ever
I long to surpass myself
The clock is ticking
No longer can I recklessly 
Take the gift of time for granted

I dream this...

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Categories: while away the hours, art, color, fantasy, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Taught My Heart To Sing
Spring holds a special place within my heart;
She's in full bloom there,
dispelling despair.
I'm anxiously waiting for Spring to start;
I miss Her so much;
I crave her...

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Categories: while away the hours, beautiful, feelings, green, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Would I Be a Flower
Would I be a desert flower
    To beguile your wandering eye
Where you hesitate a moment
    To peruse a flower...

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Categories: while away the hours, appreciation, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil,...

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Categories: while away the hours, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Grandad the Superhero
Grandad The Superhero

My grandad was a superhero,
You would not think it true,
For now he’s old and very slow,
And he only wears one shoe.

He used to...

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Categories: while away the hours, 1st grade, child, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soaked In Dew
When velvet night is soaked in dew
along  bright rims of starlit thread,
prayers chime a tune in revue
away from hours of black and dread.

Along bright...

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Categories: while away the hours, night, peace,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Reveille Rev-Uh-Lee
A signal to arise.
I saw it in your eyes.
Reveille.

In good company
Aroused in your bed
Reveling with you
Reveille.

A celebration of the bugle
Your eyes of blue
So close to...

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Categories: while away the hours, morning, romantic, sensual,
Form: Free verse
My Quirks
I have so many little quirks that I don’t know where to start
Please try not to judge me as I bare my fragile heart
First there...

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Categories: while away the hours, funny, humor, humorous, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zephyrs
Zephyrs

     ‘I cannot tell you how it was
      But this I know it came to pass.’
...

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Categories: while away the hours, autumn, love, seasons, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Till You
I’ve been so many places; traveled down some roads --
Mixed with a thousand faces where the Ganges overflowed.
I've crossed majestic mountains; walked some valleys too...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: while away the hours, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Poetry of Life
I feel the tiredness of my years, those quiet times when breath appears
in melting mosaic imagery, upon the mirrors of a sea
that only calls so...

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Categories: while away the hours, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Les Nouveaux Jours Frais
In the pale sunshine of a springtime morn,
As fresh as the dawn before it was born,
Such creamy clouds, grace a deep blue sky,
After the midnight...

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Categories: while away the hours, birth, flower, fruit, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sanctuary
"The forest is a sanctuary where you can grow to be you," ... by the Poet.

The passing of a torch, when Spring was announced, 
was...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: while away the hours, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs