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Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...

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Categories: cradling, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form: Narrative



A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf

The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...

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Categories: cradling, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member My Melodious Muse
** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...

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Categories: cradling, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...

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Categories: cradling, bird, family,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"

“She fits the bill”,
they say it 
insouciantly

visions of being 
carried in the beak 
of a bilious pelican 

where it builds
its rudimentary nest, 
it uses sticks and debris

no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it

no higher...

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Categories: cradling, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Embrace the Lines
Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water 
marks engraved...

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Categories: cradling, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Marked Territory


In the raw expanse of land where rivers sigh,  
marked by the shadows of cats and dogs,  
with each puddle of yellow reminding us  
of lives once lived, hearts bound to the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cradling, analogy, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
RED SEA
RED SEA

At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
             mud of my anus, ink of...

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Categories: cradling, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Oye, Karin - I Will Never Forget
Everyone was gone, and the pool beckoned -
          one-piece bathing suit, on your perfect petite form ...
         ...

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Categories: cradling, passion, romance, sensual, soulmate, true love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring's Kindness - a Collaboration With Regina Mcintosh
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Categories: cradling, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, joy, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Life
Inevitable death defines afterlife

I mull mortality 
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity – 
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic 
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...

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Categories: cradling, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
4:32am
She stirs first..restless..looking longingly over..senses awakened.
Their feet shuffle slowly under warm covers. The moonlight shines thru the window catching her face. .illuminating it…her tousled hair frames her face.
She looks up, hopefully for his eyes to...

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Categories: cradling, passion,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Christmas Dream Within the Child
I woke last night and read my Poe
and asked is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream of a dream?
I know what I don’t know what I know.

In Bethlehem’s cradle, a...

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Categories: cradling, blessing, child, christmas, family, hope, philosophy, star,
Form: Lyric
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh, sympathize for your imminent demise?
Cradling you in my sorrows, as...

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Categories: cradling, adventure, confusion, courage, heart, inspirational, meaningful, passion,
Form: Epic
My Little Boy Lost
My Little Boy Lost
by Katherine Huffman
Hello? My son, are you here?
I can't see you, I can't find you, why aren't you near?

As I walk the streets in search of you, 
I feel a pull, a...

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Categories: cradling, absence, baby, bereavement, children, death, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring's Kindness
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Categories: cradling, appreciation, inspiration, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the labyrinth of night, I wander, seeking echoes of a lost era
In the labyrinth of night, I wander, seeking echoes of a lost era,
To be modern means to delve into the incurable,
To plunge into the depths of the soul's festering wounds,
Each scar a testament to battles...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cradling, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Name and Blue Sky On a Sunlit Friday Morning
"The Name and Blue Sky on a Sunlit Friday Morning"




“There is something missing,” he announced.
“Oh,” She said, “in what way?”
“Well, “Love”? I wonder where it is, in all of this?”

A breeze moved hauntingly through the...

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Categories: cradling, faith, home, i am, imagery, love, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Merry Miserie
Conjuring and challenging my silly, puny solitude…
Enduring and foliage of squalid grief…left me in the nude of the wintertime 
Sometimes, I wander…I wonder…I ponder so good
I am naughty this wintertime, up to no good…misunderstood all...

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Categories: cradling, angst, hope, pain, passion, peace, suicide, winter,
Form: Free verse
Me Too
My youth minister once told me that seventeen was too young to have felt the pain that I'd felt. She told me that seventeen was too young to be so corrupted, so scarred. According to...

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© Maura Webb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cradling, abuse, anger, anti bullying, anxiety, best friend,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To Our Lion's Roar
This is the story about the man who sought refuge in my heart
His glance told stories
It sang songs, reviving and pioneering all at the same time 
His melody was beauty and foreign, a vacation I...

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Categories: cradling, addiction, betrayal, confusion, drug, love hurts, sad
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Heartbeat Waltz
Written: November 10, 2024
                    ______________________________

In the quiet of a twilight room,
heartbeats harmonize with a haunting hymn,
each...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cradling, appreciation, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paint Me An Ugly Duck
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was rare...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cradling, art, depression, horror, loneliness, lost love, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member An Immigrant Mother's Lament
When we arrived at the U.S. border as a family
We were far from welcomed in, we were made an example of
Ripped apart by ICE-cold border patrol officers. Our cries
Fell on deaf ears. I have no...

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Categories: cradling, child, family, humanity, innocence, longing, mother, political,
Form: Political Verse
Chameleon Colors
Disappointment, the pure supreme king has appointed 
this failure as prince
the downfall of deception, never present
For a moment, all seemed to be a lyrical epic
a stone to float upon a bed of feathers
transformed to a...

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Categories: cradling, sad love,
Form: Free verse

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