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Too Close To The Sun
... Have always known my limitations it's a fact that can't be missed I'll always go out on a limb and you're an attraction I can't resist am I being reckless to gamble on such a crazy game......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, flying, romantic love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Smoke and Sin
...The club was dim, a haze of gin and gold, where jazz ran slick like honey through the air. She stood in shadow, wicked, dark, and bold, red dress a warning--men still stopped to stare. Her ciga......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, sin,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Zen mode
...we burn with bliss at the Bindu chakra entwined with third eye drawn like a moth to the flame no meanings are assigned as we are consumed in the cosmic fire the words we pen are in truth ......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Consume Me
...Mesmerizing beauty like a moth to a flame. Land of milk and honey, how'd you know my name. Hypnotizing motion, spider in her web, Treasure hunter’s bounty as you lay on your bed. ......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, longing, love, lust, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zen mode
...drawn like a moth to the flame we burn breath by breath in mind-body urn swathed in bliss magnetism warm touched by God we magically transform......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Beyond my reach
...Another time, another place… Beyond the life, in different space, Where the Sun goes down on the faraway East, And the Moon rises high above Western feast, I saw you in a mask made of silver and ......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, crush, fairy, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
The Bittersweet Clasp
...Stockholm syndrome. Entrapped. Entranced by you. Pheromones. Googally eyes. Butterflies. Feeling so good should never be so wrong. Took a deadly double dose of this drug. Almost took a bite ......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, angel,
Form: Free verse
Where the Moon Knows My Name
...Said I love you... like a moth to a flame. You're no good for me... but I'm the one to blame! Standing beside you... cause I've never felt this way... under the starlight... where the moon kn......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, lost love, moon, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Dance with Desire
... She is the ache That can't be ignored, The gnawing in the night, The knowing and the not knowing. She is a snag that keeps unraveling, A tug, then a pull— The crave that is always out of to......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, analogy, conflict, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Again
...I’ve been here before Before the cruel reality reappeared Shattering your warm embrace War rages between us Bloody secrets strewn through the night sky “It’ll be okay” But a white lie is sti......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Will You Do
...("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustics digitally collaged by Stephen Langer) What Will You Do When the aliens come What will you do? Will you go dragged kicking and screaming On......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, allegory, birth, death, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Freedom Fighter
...Jailed for the will to be jailed Kids shouldn’t play with fire But they do, and of course they fail In full conscious of mad desire What now, will you write a sequel To Servantes’s Don Quixote ......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Love's Longing
...The longing for beloved, like a moth longing for flame, extinguishing it's own fire, admiring it's own pain, with the bejeweled beauty of stars and moonlight     I find you engulfed in the scent ......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, 12th grade, absence, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
When I Am Up - For Mental Health Month
...When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue. When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William Shakespeare and William Jennings Bryan all in one. W......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, how i feel, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Impasse
...We are at an impasse There's nothing I can say at this point I think you're better off if I just go away I tried to talk to you Just to explain how I feel I try my best to keep it real Bu......

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Categories: like a moth to a flame, angst, love,
Form: Rhyme

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