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Progeny
Should we shed the boy and be a man?
Shoot of spirit wild -to be tamed in the tamed land.
Where is the proof that this cynical evolution;
this cyclical passthrough is a strengthened constitution.
A blur and a...

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Categories: cornerstones, birth, child, child abuse, childhood, first love,
Form: Rhyme



My Time On Shore
My time on the shore
Along the edge of the shore there are no footprints
nor are there bits of driftwood from lost voyages
just the dunes behind and the horizon bedding down
It’s been this way now since...

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Categories: cornerstones, nature,
Form: Free verse
Bonding With Nature
Along the edge of the shore there are no footprints
nor are there bits of driftwood from lost voyages
just the dunes behind and the horizon bedding down
It’s been this way now since I first set my...

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Categories: cornerstones, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Thought You Knew
Where is your love is gone, my Dear? Where is your beloved 
My beloved is gone done into his garden to the bed of spices to feed in the 
garden and pick lilies of a...

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Categories: cornerstones, adventure, art, beauty, fire, joy, mystery, nature,
Form: Narrative
It's Time To Listen
It’s time to listen to the quiet ones
For the loud ones make a mess.
Those who have silently held their space and their wisdom
While all around are losing theirs,
It’s time to hear their voice.
They have sat...

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Categories: cornerstones, community, encouraging, future, inspirational, meaningful, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



All Hamas Supporters, Chanting Death To America, Should Be Forced To Leave America
This a message to all so-called Americans, who are loudly chanting, "Death to America!"
Should be forced to leave America!  Either they are brain washed domestic terrorists
 or brain washed foreign terrorists, they should all...

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Categories: cornerstones, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Life Struggles
As sure as the moon reflects the sun, there comes a critical time during every togetherness when some unforseen obstical challenges the strength and integrity of the tightest commitment, Where the unpredictable winds of fate...

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Categories: cornerstones, friendship, life, life, places, time, integrity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Three In One
THREE IN ONE

Fortified towering walls surround
persons running through and fro
stature small and little feeble
only a fig tree available for him
yet, he ran too.
Fast!
climbing the tree with all his might
just to have a glimpse of this
wonderful...

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Categories: cornerstones, god, nature, religious, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Sedwick
To have been there and discovered what time can do 
to a place is astounding.
All the memories flash by before I wake.

Missing true colors, images in only pastel shades which 
have borders and dimensions of...

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Categories: cornerstones, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Circle In The Sand


               Circle in the sand could tell a story 
of a lost world, where celestials and machines 
were one.
A crafty place...

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Categories: cornerstones, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inside This Cave
Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath, 
to find myself among the ruins 
of ancient places, faces, and history. 

Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivations,
something akin to...

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Categories: cornerstones, allusion, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Are a Puzzle
We live our life in fragments…moments that are fleeting.
We spend a lifetime accumulating pieces to a puzzle we are, everyday, completing.

Our parents begin our puzzle…(it is after them our puzzle’s named)
as they assemble the border...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cornerstones, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dearest Poet-Poets
Is it too much to ask I love you from afar?
(Never mind if you're woman or man,)
Just consider my soul's been light years in a jar,
And you'll know that I do what I can.

Yes, this...

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Categories: cornerstones, art, beautiful, love, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Unwanted Memories
For years you have slept                              ...

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© Jan Cannon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cornerstones, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Revolutions of the Ages
As children that start life,
in societys around the world,
born from natures natural innocence,
seeds to a future untold,
humanities hope against continued strife,,
 They're bombarded in every generation,
sometimes pushed beyond thier limits,
educated to mimic generations before,
to contribute...

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© S.K. Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cornerstones, class, community, corruption, dark, future, journey, political,
Form: Rhyme
On This Threshold
Now I hold a key to Solomon's Seal
It fits the Star of David too
Rock climbed the Walls of Wisdom 
Cornerstones well placed towards a
Throne of Love, bloody thorns my rope
Courage dissolved into pebbles of joy
As...

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Categories: cornerstones, allegory, body, courage, death, deep, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Diy Surgery
rotten molars unnerved her moribund hunger for living on

she extracted the pain with blunt scalpels pliers and hammer

damaged her smile as well but with the cornerstones removed

in the aftermath of destruction nothing was left but...

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Categories: cornerstones, addiction,
Form: Quatrain
The Idiot
Almost 
Shades of pine in derision on the loom/

Generous sway through timeless appease the trees,
Brandished by timely groves chased after wind breeze,
Sullen...
I hit my head on a passing potatoe through the leaves;

The Idiot

Charmed in an...

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Categories: cornerstones, adventure, brother, business, caregiving, dedication, faith, family,
Form: Free verse
Natures Wonder
I feel the air but I do not see it
I feel the sun’s rays holding me
but I cannot see them.

I can see the effects of the powerful winds 
I can feel the mark of the...

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Categories: cornerstones, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
All I Have
I longed for more time
to lay cornerstones, 
but life had started 
detaching my soles


I wanted more daylight
to see a Galaxy of beauty
that rested, 
within one finger of breath


I desired of many things


to walk the Ponte...

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Categories: cornerstones, inspirational, timehistory,
Form: Blank verse
Dear :::
I tried to communicate with you 
Bared out my soul on my lips and my emotions through my words
Made plain my darkest, most embarrassing insecurities and needs
Not withholding for a moment anything that put me...

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© Blue Rain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cornerstones, poems, poetry, sad, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cornerstone of Life
THE CORNERSTONE OF LIFE


Buildings must have cornerstones
So must each man's life
Those for buildings are made by man
But the one stone for your life is Christ

Buildings are constructed
To withstand the storms that pass
Those with poor foundations
Never...

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Categories: cornerstones, christian, inspiration, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Screaming Lapis Lazulis
Screaming Lapis Lazulis 

I wonder about you.
I wonder about your cold-cocked eyeball manifestations 
Wonder about your infinite perfumes of peppermint and Eau de.
Your deep penetrating cornerstones of my crested resistance,
Ascending like spent lovers at drowsy...

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Categories: cornerstones, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Warm Detachment
By and large I sense they're all reverting
back to primitive indulgences of hobbesian violence, the ferocious world in which they dwell.
They throw cornerstones of their belief system at me, blind sighted rocks dig under my...

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Categories: cornerstones, caregivingworld,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Ivan Efremovs Bull S Hour
Let’s dream and wonder 
How societies would live their diurnal,
Wondrous and productive lives 
If every member of that fraternity 
Of brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, children
Would have shame and higher conscience
And let it be the guiding...

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Categories: cornerstones, books,
Form: Concrete

Book: Shattered Sighs