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Premium Member My Big Worded Aunt
She went into apocalyptic shock.
What is that?
I do not know, but it sounds catamorphic to me.
I smile at my aunt, who knows everything.
Always has, always...

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Categories: worded, word play, words,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member To Paint With Worded Brush
My words – but feeble brushes
attempt to recapture
the essence of a masterpiece
in black and white lines,
to give flight to a long dormant eagle,
raise a long...

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Categories: worded, art, imagery, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gems Cracked Open
My life, like everybody else’s, is a treasure trove
with a mine from which one’s treasures are derived.
The familial bonds we form are platinum; our friendships...

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Categories: worded, imagination, silver,
Form: Free verse
Two Poetic Hydrangea Mobiles - Happy Or Sad, Take Your Pick
Two poetic hydrangea mobiles ~ happy or sad, take your pick 

~
Weeping hydrangeas spill
sapphire tears falling,
drenching grey scale gardens
suspended, free flowing
a mobile of distractions
on tiny...

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Categories: worded, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That's Poetry
When tongue is silent, but muse is chanting - that's poetry.
When we write what the heart has been asking - that's poetry.

As dawn's hues glisten...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: worded, poetry, poets,
Form: Ghazal



The Teardrop Poem
A poem is just a teardrop
A form of liquid pain
Released to pen and paper
Our words become a stain

The hurt that's bottled up inside
Can come out...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: worded, on writing and wordswords,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are...

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Categories: worded, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
A Message In a Bottle
If you find me 
I'm yours 
A soulmate forever more 
For the love that be eternal 
My heart beats just once more

But first

I am an...

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Categories: worded, beautiful, beauty, love, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member To Capture a Poet
The best way to capture a poet
You can place them in a cage of words
Within verse their emotions contained
Each beat of their heart steeped in...

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Categories: worded, introspection, poets,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member If I Could ---
If I could
Abracadabra! Allakizam!
I'd eradicate ALL illness
Crash! Boom! Bam!

I'd end depression
In only one session.
Away with sadness go!
Travel on the wind, moods low!

I would crinkle my...

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Categories: worded, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Anchored On a Windy Beach
I
Anchored on a sun filtered shore 
Upon rocks which lay the days of yore 
In swirling pristine aquas of alluring calm 
Let it serenade heal...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: worded, africa, beach, beautiful, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Drenched of Hell's Insanities
Drenched of hell’s insanities 



Sending chills this tortured spine, 
as aches precede the worded fiction
Sorted truth does rest sublime 
beneath the light of benediction
Broken dreams...

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Categories: worded, dark, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maybe Just Me
Maybe just me, my
perspective – but as 
a word-acrobat, I feel
far less
affective....

Preferring more 
a loosely worded chat – 
for simple gratification; 
as opposed to strictly
legal~proclamation!...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: worded, inspirational, language, perspective, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Songs of Memory
Our love now plays on songs of memory
like perfume of flowers, not meant to last.
Love was smooth as stones polished with emery
yet, scattered as light...

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Categories: worded, life, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Walkabout
In shot snap seconds, everything changed.
The horror was sudden -
a shatter-shower of bullets
bouncing off rock.
The picnic I'd laid so carefully
blew apart - black olives
tossed into...

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Categories: worded, journey, places, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs