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Water, 30 random word prompt
...The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my memory rumble......

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Categories: dust covered, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sad Story of Annie
...The old cottage was in a dilapidated state. Fifteen years had passed Since my sister died. The only thing of interest was a dusty old box. I lifted the lid: a broken flute, a sort of diary And a j......

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Categories: dust covered, abuse, memory, violence,
Form: Free verse



Hollow
...Those church doors, once open wide, are closed. Hinges rusted and ancient thorn bushes, once trimmed, now block entry. Inside, the pews are barren. The pulpit, a dust-covered monument to an a......

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Categories: dust covered, christian, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covering Rose
...Painted daisies, baby's breath beside roses Chrysanthemums, carnations beside roses Red roses beside pink roses Still, Rose is gone; Petals fresh, ... dried, and crushed. Dawn and dusk, and mel......

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Categories: dust covered, death, farewell, flower, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member at a loss for words
...At a loss for words Well not exactly Words are plentiful Thoughts a lesser commodity Dust covered, wall flowers Resigned to their fate Thoughtless Well not exactly Thoughts think About wha......

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Categories: dust covered, imagination, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fading photographs
...dust covered photos forgotten over the years just recently found old smiles brought to life memories that make me laugh emotions run wild the more I dust them the more faded they be......

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Categories: dust covered, emotions, family,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Cosmic dust of color, spread across the marble table
...Cosmic dust of color, spread across the marble table, where you, with sacred grace, draw esoteric circles, watching me as I prepare the canvas for painting, laughing softly, slipping your powdered......

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Categories: dust covered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wandering of a Dead Man
...The Wandering of a Dead Man I move slowly, like a lost soul, a walking dead, My vision, foreign, no longer belongs to me, It is merely that of a human animal, an unwitting heir Of Greek culture, ......

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Categories: dust covered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Wedding
...To elope is that others are doubters they wish to devalue the way you feel saying your emotions are fadly expressions saying what you feel isn't real To agree and say to your lover there's a p......

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Categories: dust covered, love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Making of Mankind
...What is a man but his last breath All that he is he thrives to be A single soul like a lone wolf Everything we are we choose to be A life of obstacles we still persuade That in a breath lif......

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Categories: dust covered, character, creation, death, image,
Form: Narrative
dust covered journeys
...I shift my mind through the wild trajectories of life I often feel I have turned the corner refusing to the titterings of despair I cannot hold back the spring the snowman is no more I must we......

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Categories: dust covered, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make My Lonley Desert Bloom Again
...A rewrite. It's been a long cold dark lonely winter Since you went away I live in limbo And torture myself every single day The sun used to shine my way But now turns the other way A shadow ......

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Categories: dust covered, absence, abuse, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken promises
...Sink full of dishes dust covered coffee table nights of loneliness......

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Categories: dust covered, sad,
Form: Senryu
Happy 212th birthday Charles Dickens
...Happy 212th birthday Charles Dickens Though written three hundred and sixty five days ago, the following poetic commemoration doth not warrant any modification. Said prolific author born Fe......

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Categories: dust covered, adventure, anniversary, birthday, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dust Covered Dreams
...Sadly He watched the old barn Wither, fade, weep Forgotten by time. Neglect A dereliction of youth Seeking the future Forgetting the past. The old harnesses cracked Tools bent by gravity’s i......

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Categories: dust covered, age, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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