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Premium Member In Woes and Throes of Sorrow
I rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.

Neglected now, heartstrings'...

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Categories: woes, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: woes, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: woes, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanilla Visions
When the 
  moon muses 
to the 
  melody of memories, 
roaming wisps 
   of vanilla gently 
flow through 
 ...

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Categories: woes, death, deep, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Passions I Own
Sensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...

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Categories: woes, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Waltz With Every Season
Undulate on burbling rivers rushing to meet sea,
Buoying spring’s hilarity, ceding to summer’s plea;
Marvel on wings of autumn as falling colors spree,
Rejoice pristine snowflakes adulating...

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Categories: woes, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: woes, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: woes, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Day Had Come
His day had come, and so He went and prayed.
The woes of all mankind upon him weighed.
His brethren slept; He knew what would befall.
His enemies...

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Categories: woes, christian, easter,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Let Me Be the One
When fallacious friends fail and break you in two
let me be the one-
to help you feel worthy and whole

And when slithering serpents slander your name
let...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: woes, friend,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forgotten Soul

I turn my head, and there she is once more
in her disheveled, worn, and tattered dress,
one pew behind me near the exit door-
she sits head...

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Categories: woes, emotions, feelings, poverty,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Poet With a Priceless Pen
I am poet with a priceless pen
born to burnish the beauty of men.
I wonder what mortal mirrors reflect...
For me, all races deserve respect.

I often hear...

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Categories: woes, analogy, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Me,Myself and I
When me and myself
Are feeling sadness
I sit down to chat
With the both of them
Finding the reasons
For their troubled minds

We have time to chat
I would speak...

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Categories: woes, image, people,
Form: Free verse
It's Great To Be Alive
Wrinkles and gray hair
get me in a rage
and I say to myself,
“Why don't you act your age!"

My poor aching feet
remind me to wear sensible shoes
but...

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Categories: woes, age, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: woes, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things