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I Love You For What You Have Been To Me

You, I've  loved  you  ever  you've been with me! 
None  supported me  as  you did,  so  far. 
On my eighteenth, you shone  elegantly,

Capturing  naughtily   what  eyes didn't  see  
When  I  held   closely  the  mini   skirt   star.  
So, I've  loved  you  ever  you've been  with  me!

In  the  dark   night,  when  I  tread   cautiously  
To  the robber you gave  a   nasty  scar.
And,  strong   and   proud, you shone  elegantly!

She came  and  shunned you  for   being   shabby  
She replaced you  and  you gazed  from   afar  
Still, I've  loved  you  ever  you've been  with  me!

Then   one   day  she  left  me  in   state   sorry.
I threw her  gift   to   hug  you  as  you are.
Dear of mine,  you shone  elegantly!

I was not  rich   man   when  you came  to  me
All crushed and bruised  you took me  to  my gloire.
Lovely shoes, I've  loved  you  ever  you've been  with  me!
I  love  the  way you shone  elegantly! 

27/08/16
Contest: My shoes


Her First President

Once we were a room,
a space for the spilling of pagan oaths,
for the pleading of primal prayers.
Now that room rages
upon an emptiness only my blood hears.

Bondage was good for us.
“You’re not my master”, she would say,
“you are me taking me”.  She was right, 
I would lose myself in her.

She’s related to George Washington,
at least by sexual union.
A man of his time.
A black girl for all times.

As her descendent she shared herself with me.
I imagine her now as she arranges 
the form and flavors of desire. 
Her skin a sensual braille for my shaping hands.
Her limbs submissive yet grasping a 
binding chimera. Flesh capturing silks;
blind Labial dances preface
a choreography of complying violence.

We struggle with the glottal language 
of inarticulate gods,
we’re deep sea divers bound to an erotic gravity.
This place is a womb
for the birthing of tattooing hungers.
Rooms enter rooms until dark suns
open our mouths with their electric flares.

Somewhere in another story,
an aged Washington shoves
his shriveled member 
into another girl – another room.
A place we were pleased to burn down
again, and again.

Premium Member Dream Destination

Planning a dream vacation traveling through Africa.
An African safari, our dream to enjoy capturing the memories
by photographing. We’ll mingle and learn about the people
with different backgrounds, cultures, and traditions.
And enjoy the energetic ritual dance and rhythm of
the African drums. Camp under the ebony stars
with the wild scent of firewood.
Explore the wildlife in their natural habitats.
Marvel at the sight of the massive gray elephants
beneath sapphire skies as their butterfly-wing ears flap
in communication and to cool down. Observe their long,
dexterous trunk, a nose, and part of their upper lip,
used like a tool to drink, feed, work, and communicate
with people and their own. To enjoy in wonder while they walk
in a group like hills across a sea of bush or forest, putting one foot
in front of the other in a pendulum-like motion in a graceful
movement lifting dust into the air, as they travel to the nearest
river to drink and bathe in a peaceful color wheel. Of warm
golden hours of fiery oranges and deep purples.





12/23/2025
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Heidleberg Germany written by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen

GENTLY MY MIND PORTRAYED 
AN EMPTY SADNESS WHILE I'D CRADLED 
THEE NESTLED THOUGHT
LEAVING THE INFAMOUS BONDARIES 

AWAITING THE VIEWING 
OF THOMAS MANN'S QUIET SETTING
BETWEEN THE SOLID STRUCTURES 
OF STILL RUNNING WATER SEEPING
 
OVER THE GOTHIC STONERY 
THAT CARRIED SILENT WISHES 
BENEATH THE FOUNTAINS CORE 
TRAVELING BEYOND VOSS SHORE 

WHILE CRAVING TATTOOED SMILES 
THE UNSEEN GESTURES OF MINES 
THROUGHOUT THE GALLERIES 
OF INDUSTRIAL SOLITUDE 

WHY I'D BEGAN TO OPEN PACKAGES 
OF MEMORIES SAFELY TUCKED AWAY
BESIDE HOPE AND CHARITY 
WHY I FOLLOWED MADNESS 

CREEPING THROUGH THE FOREST AGAIN 
AWAKENING SUDDEN EMOTIONS 
BOTTLED I SUPPOSE GRAVELY 
DANCING TO THE TUNES OF BROKEN 

FOLKLORES TALES WHISPERING 
THE SONG OF POVERTY  CATERING 
TO BAYOUS OF HASTE
WHERE SACRED GROUND OPENS 

EXPOSING THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES 
MY SOUL HAD MASTERED A QUICKENING
BALANCE A MEANINGFUL GATHERING 
HOLDING ON TO COPENHAGENS

SECRET TUNNELS WHERE KOFF
DESIGNED BLUE PRINTS AND PATTERNS 
CAPTURING MY EMPTINESS OF REMEMBERING 
THE WHITE LAB COATS THE  CRYING LAMBS

WRITTEN BY
MRS YOLANDA JOY NICHOLSEN 
3/9/2013
FROM MY HOSPITAL BED
IN TAMPA HEART ATTACK

Premium Member Words on Cards - DHR

A card is an origami of the cosmos,
a square of twilight folded twice,
and folded paper breathes with hidden life.
It is a tiny, quiet theater
where the heart’s unspooled desires
perform a silent, glowing waltz.

We press our love into the pulp of trees,
capturing the soul’s geometry—
a constellation of unspoken things.
The envelope, a vessel of crisp white frost,
guards the fragile alchemy within:
a drop of captured sun,
a winter’s thaw,
a map to where the lonely find a shore.

Open the gatefold,
and watch the topography of care unfold.
Here, embossed forget-me-nots bloom in neon frost:
And velvet ribbons tie the loose ends of a quarrel
into bows of shimmering, impossible light.
The words are not just manufactured rhyme,
but chronometers of grace,
designed to stall the marching hands of time
upon a loved one’s face.

Within the matte embrace of vellum,
a mother’s unsaid courage drips like honey,
a father’s pride stands rooted like an ancient oak,
and friendships that have weathered bitter storms
are poured like stardust into handwritten ink.
These are holograms of memory,
projecting laughter over oceans,
casting warmth into the coldest, darkest rooms.
It waits patiently in the mailbox
to bloom again in the garden of another day.

To give a card is to offer a piece of your own chest,
a paper lantern released into the dark,
a folded sanctuary where the soul can rest.
It tells the receiver: You are seen.  You are held.
Even when the physical miles divide us,
our spirits are forever intertwined,
within the beautiful, surreal origami of humankind.


Premium Member Life as a River of Poems

Life as a River of Poems
As the poems flow in thousands, you realize
that you have created very little in the grand tapestry of existence.
Everything distills into rain, sunlight,
the relentless pulse of traffic, the endless cycle of nights and days,
the countless faces that fade into the fabric of years.
Leaving this world will be easier than living in it,
while I type another line, a man plays the piano through the radio waves,
the greatest writers have whispered profound truths in few words,
while the worst have drowned in an ocean of verbosity.
I lose myself in the flow of thoughts, a mystical labyrinth of consciousness,
where each poem is a raindrop,
fallen on the canvas of an ephemeral world.
My poems, like rivers, flow through the valleys of time,
capturing sunlight and the shadows of night,
shaping the fleeting faces of days and years.
I now understand that creation is an art of simplicity,
a line written in a silent night,
while a piano plays in the background of a restless life.
The greatest truths are often hidden in silence,
while empty words can fill endless pages.
I let myself be carried by this river of poems,
seeking the essence in each verse,
knowing that true greatness lies in the power of unspoken words,
in the silent magic of existence,
in the simple beauty of rain and sunlight,
in the quiet between heartbeats,
and in the melancholy of endless nights.
© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.

NAVIGATING LIFE

AS WE EMBARK ON THIS JOURNEY CALLED LIFE, A COMMON QUESTION ALWAYS SUFFACES. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

FOR SOME, SEEKING HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT, FOR OTHERS, IT'S CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS, AND FOR SOME, IT'S CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY OR TO THE WORLD IN SOME SHAPE OR FORM.

FOR ME, IT'S CAPTURING THOSE MEANINGFUL MOMENTS THAT DEFINE YOUR LIFE. ALL THE SMILES AND TEARS AND WINS AND LOSSES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND REGRETS AND DISSAPOINTMENTS. IT INCLUDES ENDURING STORMS AND DROUGHTS, CREATING NEW LIFE AND SAYING OUR GOODBYES. 

EACH EXPERIENCE IS SOMETHING THAT SHAPES US AND DEFINES OUR EXISTENCE.

Premium Member Sensitive Ears

Unseen upon my heart,
capturing every nuance,
always awake and aware though the whole world is sleeping,
my mother's ears, like sensitive sonar, are listening.

An umbilical tether, pulling, tugging, 
alerting me to your danger and your joy,
my mother ears discern your need.
My ears feel you like a surgeon's hands,
sensitive, probing, seeking out your heartache.

Laughing, they share your joy
and taste your victories,
delicious mother candy.

Since before your birth,
these mother ears have known the unknowable,
thought the indescribable,
anticipated the best about you.
They do not frame my face;
my mother ears frame my heart
and are shaped like love.

© Faye Lanham Gibson, May 4, 2015

Premium Member A Poetic Peaceful Diplomatic Game For Beginners

Playing a game on a checkered board 
No need for armor and sword 
Only a decisive mind 
Thoughtful strategy and enough time 
Concentrating with a stare 
Capturing pieces without a care 
Characters used straight out from mid evil books 
A knight making hops and hooks 
There is a castle that is called a rook 
Without a ‘c’ they watch from the tower having a good look 
Funny the Queen moves are filled with power 
While the King limited probably a coward 
There is a spiritual artistic depiction 
Going forward is its only restriction 
Always challenging ending up in an invisible tangle 
Bishops slide along on a mystical angle 
Finally there is the little pawn 
First one to move on the battlefield lawn 
Slowly stepping down then line 
Clearing the path allowing the power to shine 
If the mission was a success 
Royals find out and are impressed 
Getting to the other side 
A commoner is promoted since they tried 
Having this new position on attack  
Puts fear in the enemy King and makes him pack 
Then ends falling into a trap 
Surrendering before taking a nap 
Hearing two words ‘check mate’ 
A friendly message not having any hate 
Using these figures at their finger tips 
Could be a nice way to say ‘get a grip’ 
Has war been around this long? 
Doing things basically that is wrong 
Fighting battles for no reason at all 
Watching neighbors and former friends fall 
Centuries long ago they socialized with a game called chess 
Soothing an angry attitude presenting a mess 
Human emotions have not changed 
Tempers still have that maturity range 
Maybe we should talk about competitive aggression released in sporting peace 
Giving life a new lease 
Not counting the deceased
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member You Could Hypnotize Someone

Word Lyric #6 for Music

“You Could Hypnotize Someone”

Turn away your blinking blue eye,
It is searing my brain with wind and sky,
We are at pause here in this fountain of mystery,
We are standing here to reset the pulse of history,
Your rolling turning eye is silently sucking me in,
It cannot possibly change what might have been,
It is capturing my sadness, and stealing my soul away,
Please turn your blinking blue eye away, I say.
Like looking down the barrel of a burping gun,
There is no doubt, you could hypnotize someone.

Oh quiet lady, cast away your scary stares,
Into far-away space, beyond all chants and prayers.
Turn away your blinking blue orb from my sight,
It is draining my heaving convulsing body outright.
The weary world stumbles ahead drunk with wine,
Please quiet lady, turn, turn toward the sunshine.
We are at pause here in this fountain of mystery,
We are standing here to reset the pulse of history,
Like looking down the barrel of a burping gun,
There is no doubt, you could hypnotize someone.
Form: Lyric

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