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Premium Member Arthritis
Wrinkled forehead creases as he looks at me
From the burgundy sofa where he lives most days
Free of things like water bills and car payments
He lies down to eat and drag slowly on a cigarette

The smoke...

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Categories: breathing space, addiction, pain, sick,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part Three
kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an Irish nation half-wrenched from a bloodied and wearied empire
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breathing space, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Love- Our Story For Contest
In Love- Our story ( a sort of Sonnet)

 

That first day in the factory, your eye
had followed me as down the aisle I passed
still lingered moments after I'd gone by,
you vowed then that glance...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breathing space, love,
Form: Sonnet
You Are The Reason
You are the reason why I am here because I have so much to share. You are the reason why I am here, and you act as if you don’t care.

What kind of person are...

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Categories: breathing space, america, anti bullying, community, corruption, deep, earth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dead, Demented Yet Presides
Over two hundred million people sleeps and wake without a leader,

A cloned effigy in a rock called "Aso"

too old to lead or long dead to be,

demented or dead, they cannot tell,

old age has come but...

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Categories: breathing space, africa, corruption, image, life, metaphor, military, murder,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member Landed Thereon
I awaken after said storm thrown weakened am I
In awe in wonderment as to where I espy

Fervent to silent as I witness this breathing space
As I slowly rise my tall in this seeing succulent heaven...

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Categories: breathing space, absence, adventure, age, beach, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Planet Killers '1' Vs Candy Stripers '2'
(America’s Mutant Megalomaniacs)

All Scientists know that our planet is warming,
No question remains too whose ox will get gored!
A contributing fact is earth's CO2's rising,
That surface of Venus melts lead not ignored.

The Venus disaster pre-destined to...

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Categories: breathing space, anti bullying, political, science,
Form: Rhyme
The Teaching Task
Lockdown over, I had to head to school
my pupils waiting to learn the golden rule
I got ready and put on that mask
following the health protocols is a must
How would I each word articulate?
and those whole...

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Categories: breathing space, education, endurance, funny, teacher, technology, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Pressing
It’s one of those days when my stomach is pressing against my chest, and my lungs is playing tick tock toe with its own breath. My adrenaline is running a hundred miles marathon per hour...

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Categories: breathing space, career, community, deep, house, pain, perspective, planet,
Form: Narrative
Golden Tone
Golden melodies
Creating a series of bolded memories,
Spiral through the canals of my ears...
Melting away the wax so everything clears,
Peers from all directions echoes to project their voices...
Only a golden tone is embraced.

Alert! I became...
Adrenalin pushes...

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Categories: breathing space, crush, love,
Form: Free verse
Untwine
It lays helpless at the foot of the hill gasping for breath, while the shadows drifts slowly over the hardened earth and thickened skies. The scent of the gully birds kept meandering around strange daffodils...

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Categories: breathing space, cinderella, community, courage, endurance, environment, heartbroken, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Taunting the Dragon
My head rests on the doorframe, as I'm watching him at work.
I'm jealous of the devotion, and the motion of his hands,
much surprised at the green-eyed dragon that lurks within my mind, 
while he rubs...

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Categories: breathing space, love, lust, senses, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dreams Within Dreams
Under the canopy of pine trees, 
We lie watching the peaks of mountains 
Crowned in white and wearing stony brown.
We take flights to majestic heights
To see views from the summits’ tops. 

Dreams fulfilled, we fly...

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Categories: breathing space, dream, fantasy, life,
Form: Free verse
What the Day Owes the Night
What does the blood owes the vein?
What does food owes the stomach?
The grasses would always be green but 
Not in a drought and dry days.
The day owes the night the chance to exist 
Among the...

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Categories: breathing space, art,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Stop the War
Stop the war,
Pleaded the children
Eyes filled to the brim with
Despair as to how they can feel
Hope being destroyed with gloom

Stop the war
Else how will peace be celebrated
As the symbolic Goddess of Earth?
That which allowed us...

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Categories: breathing space, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Perfect Painting: Painting and Poetry In One
With her brush and canvas, she charily dash
Slowly and surely, never ever she rushed
Each stroke a decisive measured stoke
Yielding a beauty of light and heavy poke
A family of emotions, she does evoke

Even palette of events...

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Categories: breathing space, art, feelings, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Postvictorian Cathedral
All ye who enter here
despairing statues of salted liberty,
merging solidarity with Earth’s poor hunger
to range free falling Victorian bricks
and mal-bourne sticks
to land here with now
with all arrived before you
prepared to grace Earth’s healthy breathing space
and...

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Categories: breathing space, beauty, culture, earth, environment, health, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Sanctuary
 Forests are my safe sanctuary,
where among trees I find breathing space;
I find refuge when I need to be solitary.
Down green hued paths are bird songs merry,
each view, smell and sound I embrace;
forests are my...

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Categories: breathing space, introspection, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Space Cadet a Waste of Space
or

Cool Physicists on the Bestseller List

"Outer space is another of life's great mysteries for an infinite number of 
 romantics who flunked out of basic physics."
         ...

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Categories: breathing space, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Unwanted
She sometimes looked so cruel when angry
But she was always so beautiful when happy.
She was a little rebellious with life
But she made good concession all the times.
She was irritated with all her duties
But she would...

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Categories: breathing space, cry, daughter, family, truth,
Form: Free verse
Conundrum
Yesterday was here now gone in the past. 
It was just here and gone so fast. 
Nothing you can do to change the day before. 
Look at your future and whats in store.

We have all...

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breathing space, introspection, life
Form: Rhyme
Breathing Space
sharing in God's grace, and love, and mercy,
even in sharing in the midst of our hurting,
places us open to love deeper to see you,
watching your love move in everything we do,
breaking free can seem uncomfortable...

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Categories: breathing space, hope, love, prayer, sound, love, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Phobia
The phobia  

 Went to the Carnival in Loule I`m sure it was nice
 I felt like the branch of a tree hurtling down a river
 Of humanity a maelstrom, a headless monster and
I...

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Categories: breathing space, blue,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Many Miles Away Memories
From the bottom of my heart
Though many miles away
Your memories... still stay

Changing versions of horizons
Still, I am singing our song
Days and months has gone by
To forget you - a hard try

From the bottom of my...

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Categories: breathing space, desire, feelings, hope, imagery, love,
Form: Lyric
I Can'T Breathe
I am tired of trying to be cool
I am tired of crying like a fool
I am not born to be silent 
I am not born to be violent
But the fact that I'm dying
Is what I...

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Categories: breathing space, america, black african american, black love, bullying,
Form: Rhyme

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