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Premium Member The watched are watching you
...The watched pot never boils. The watched clock slows. The stalked knows, to watch the suddenly still ones, that lie moored with anchor bestowed, just out of reach, wanting, staring, blinking, ......

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Categories: deceptively, corruption, nature,
Form: Free verse
The House on Lake Maggiore
...The House on Lake Maggiore The house on Lake Maggiore was reality, a physical truth, my imagination became the artist. The day has become a deckchair, gently folding itself up as my walk le......

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Categories: deceptively, home, house, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pondering Parables
...Among tales told long ago were those of finding hidden buried treasures, of growing seeds in diverse soils, of building homes on sand or rock, of sorting worthy sheep from wicked goats, of invit......

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Categories: deceptively, faith, fantasy, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shikata Ga Nai
... Pervasive personal questions people ask, shredding to shards what truly is me. The pieces are of no use to them though, the effort seems at times to stem from veiled spite, incisive curiosi......

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Categories: deceptively, character, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Ohio Ghosts
...They tumble deceptively onto the fissured asphalt, plaster cracked years flake away where no eye watches. Hollow houses, their boards rotted by the chew and gnaw of tireless winds, old-time b......

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Categories: deceptively, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Key
...Heaven and Hell are spaces in our mind Precious real estate taking us over Seeking consolation never to find Through senses deceptively hence smolder Stagnant in solitude, whisper’s wonder ......

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Categories: deceptively, angel, beauty, blessing, christian,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Just a Minute Too Late
...Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before —Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven Just a Minute Too Late Those inky shadows, follow me, cleverly devised in the corner......

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Categories: deceptively, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If only you knew
...Is there enough adjectives I can use, to sew these sensitive sensations to you, when my dandelion heart is dense with combustible phrases, and my sunken soul is weeping into the wearines......

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Categories: deceptively, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Among the forests of ideas that get lost in dense fogs
...Among the forests of ideas that get lost in dense fogs, On high cliffs, beliefs carved into the mountain's root, We stand bound by incantations, by formulas we recite like a litany, With hearts fu......

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Categories: deceptively, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bait
... Title 2/ BAIT Quote: Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake The transiting sun shines on you deceptively, spreads shifting spectrum in chameleon sky, the mas......

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Categories: deceptively, analogy, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Free verse
How to attach a shower curtain
...How to attach a shower curtain... I revisit rather than write from scratch a poem crafted May twenty third two thousand and twenty since the following words apropos and amply serve a duplicat......

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Categories: deceptively, abuse, angel, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme
SMOKERS CAUTIONARY TALE
...SMOKERS CAUTIONARY TALE In the haze of smoke, a cautionary tale, I weave a poem of the cigarette's trail. A tale of danger lurking in the ember's glow, Of the destructive nature we all should ......

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Categories: deceptively, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tearful Smile
...Tired of lying about why she is crying, She soon unleashes the truth of how she is feeling, But nobody, close to none, knew the true meaning Behind how she is always deceptively smiling.......

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Categories: deceptively, blue, cry, depression, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poetry Is the Remedy
...i life Reflections in the mirror increase resentment. Tarnished heart pursues vengeful contentment Disillusioned, you hide in fictitious make believe, possessed by demons who purblind and ......

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Categories: deceptively, angst, emotions, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Deaths Carriage
...I pull back the curtains And out I look There lay a carriage, oh yes, I’m certain Suddenly, I hear a knock at my door So the lock I unhook The door i open Standing there, a figure A crea......

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Categories: deceptively, death,
Form: Rhyme

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