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Premium MemberFacing Poverty

... If I went barefoot for a lifetime,  
shoes would be pointless.  
Toes ate board, concrete, grassland, shoreline.  
Me, Tarzan to pedicurist! 
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Categories: dewy eyed, africa, appreciation, black love,
Form: Free verse

Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze

..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.

Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.

Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...
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Categories: dewy eyed, 12th grade, america, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Dream Patrol

...Willie Winkie lived in a land of magic, in the region called Butterfly Haven;
For Willie was a diminutive elf, like the violet blossoms, of purple fixation.

Willie and his beloved wife, E...
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Categories: dewy eyed, community, dream, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberUnsent Letters

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Those who’ve gone on before me… what I would have liked to have told them – in those unsent letters, those unwritten stories, those unbroken promises, those unsteady poems, those unbleached m...
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Categories: dewy eyed, cry, death, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAutumn Joy

...Destined for the hopefulness of dawn,
Dewy eyed, mist like tears forced themselves
From the corners of sorrowful eyes, resting
On the sunrise, briefly elated by the melody –
Music in colors, grac...
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Categories: dewy eyed, autumn, beautiful, november, october,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGrowing Up

...I remember…

The little girl words falling from my lips,
In whispers and whimpers, coloring
Light in misty feelings, flowing like the gentle
Music, rhythmic, pulsing – revealing
Where sincerity...
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Categories: dewy eyed, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, family,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCharity

...Kindness playing along the smile,
From a heart who bleeds inspiration
In hues of hope, healing, happiness,
Breathless sprays of light and love, laughter
Alive like the music of wind, embracing
O...
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Categories: dewy eyed, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn Praise

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Humble as a teardrop,
Dewy eyed and singing 
Believing in the fulfillment
Found in listening
To the rain, the pain never
Erasing what is – what is
Like yesterday’s goodbye,
Faded...
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Categories: dewy eyed, appreciation, christian, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse

The Twin

...My Twin

I have a twin brother who was never born to a great life
He waits till I sleep, ten appears watching a re-run of
“House on the prairie” makes him dewy-eyed, cries
at dawn, I have to blo...
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Categories: dewy eyed, absence, birth, creation,
Form: Blank verse

Lily Pond

...Down by the only lily pond around here
the air is brisk and not particularly subtle
as it blows its windy nose.

It's not exactly a Monet painting
the setting is a little too municipal
and cert...
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Categories: dewy eyed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Man Sits On a Train

...A man sits on a train
Waiting or at least hoping for an e-mail
He stares at the laptop that sits atop his lap
With unwavering concentration

As the train pulls out of the city
The morning sky i...
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Categories: dewy eyed, analogy, anxiety, computer, journey,
Form: Free verse

Stretches of Silence

...Dewy-eyed, dragged on
With gaze upon 
Spectre brighter than a noonday
I caught her soul entwined in the web
But lack what to say, like a play

Even with this swift communion of a babe
Entangle...
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Categories: dewy eyed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHorses Looking Out Barn Window

...Mommy and I are watching out the window at the farmer and his girl.
She is darling, with the strong legs of a runner and a birthing behind.
See that hair beneath her bonnet, Mom whispers. It’s a sw...
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Categories: dewy eyed, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Smile At the Foot of a Ladder

...the first step’s the sweetest
the ladder steady
not splintered
no thought
of the problems up at the top.

the foot is giddy
impish, tapping
with dewy-eyed toes.

under a frolicsome smile,
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Categories: dewy eyed, courage, humanity, mother son,
Form: Free verse

Silence

...Silence suckles sin
at dewy-eyed mother's breast.
Shame shatters love's hopes....
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Categories: dewy eyed, anxiety, child abuse, christian,
Form: Bio

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