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Premium Member Echoes of a Shady Past
An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: dampness, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: dampness, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose
Premium Member LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.

I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...

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Categories: dampness, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form: Narrative
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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Categories: dampness, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.               
It is almost as if the drab 
Streets were strewn...

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Categories: dampness, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Good Girl
The Good Girl

Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...

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Categories: dampness, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Vacation In New Orleans
Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves.  The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses.  My luggage...

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Categories: dampness, dark, evil, scary,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Hay Un Dia Feliz By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
       Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

      To come by a happy day

(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dampness, childhood, family, father, feelings, music, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
The Magic of This Night
The Magic of this Night


My precious love, my sweetest joy, please come to me this night
Make my beating heart your own to set my world a flight
Accept this dream which does come true of times...

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Categories: dampness, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bud
Strong, in some ways –
Reflecting the old times, the old days,
Like a moment inspired by light,
Suggesting the beauty of a smile,
Echoing truth in every movement,
Exposing the wonder of a heart…

Who is laughing, dancing like leaves
Of...

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Categories: dampness, appreciation, blessing, child, childhood, death, grandfather, love,
Form: Free verse
Memoirs of the Damaged
Imagine a small frail girl,
Sitting in the darkest corner of a poorly lit room, 
Only lit by the cautious sunlight that rebelliously shines through the crack in the curtain – if she dares
And thank God...

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Categories: dampness, women, god, woman, night, girl, god, mother,
Form: Blank verse
Food For Thought
No winter postcards of deep snow and bliss
No winter postcards of mistletoe kiss
Winter was cold, winter was tough
Winter was long and we all had it rough
No Father Christmas, no presents for us
No wide eyed kitten...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dampness, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dragons
Mystic sounds move slowly against  the face of the cragged purple mountains.  Towers of lost forgotten cities peek seductively through canopies of age old trees.  Grey mists hide millennia of secrets behind...

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Categories: dampness, fantasy,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Final Word - With Apologies To Edgar Allan Poe
The man wore motley, so I whacked him...

Hello, my charming neighbor; 
How you grace me with your wit.
You’ve really got the spirit 
And I like your costume’s fit.
What’s that? No, I’ve had plenty. 
What I...

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Categories: dampness, allegory, gothic, literature,
Form: Lyric
Skinny Prayers
The  sirens are gone now
                             ...

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Categories: dampness, addiction, anxiety, beauty, depression, faith, hope, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mom, when I Saw you Last
Is not ‘Mother’ the sweetest word in the dictionary?
She's one’s closest friend, companion, and guide.
How can I restrict her within the frame of a poem,
when my entire world circled around her once?

As I think of...

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Categories: dampness, appreciation, farewell, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Four Aces and a Black Moon
The bet had been bound ... and boldly called,
          Right there on the cold castle grounds at eventide -
       ...

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Categories: dampness, adventure, conflict, games, moon, mystery, romance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing on the walls

You gaze at me with pools of wisdom
Infinite...

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Categories: dampness, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination, memory, peace, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Mental Breakdown
Nastalgic from another night of no sleep.

symptoms of my illness.

Routeen.

i breath in the moring air into my lungs only to feel more empty.

the silence becongs me to sit and enjoy the morining seclusion.

left defencless to...

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Categories: dampness, depressionworld, pain, night, hope, me, night,
Form: I do not know?
Damp 1
DAMP 1
Out walking to where three valleys meet,                           ...

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Categories: dampness, beauty, earth, england, environment, nature,
Form: Verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance Second Cell
Artfully dodging explosive solutions
pretending shackles restrained prisoner 
lobbed pseudo Molotov cocktails 
kindly, loosely, and mutinously linkedin 
liberal short (make believe) chain
leashed faux abysmal isolated confinement
former courtly poet,
who consumed prison fare 
equalling bread and thin gruel
poetical,...

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Categories: dampness, abuse, adventure, allegory, america, blessing, celebration, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Existence Meaningless
this existence is meaningless
i don’t understand
i don’t understand
why me? 
the cliché echoes in empty air
but is amplified in my soul
as no other question
holds such validity
as this.

this existence is meaningless
i am out of control
the tears that...

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Categories: dampness, angst, depression, life, sad,
Form: Lyric
Water In the Morning
Water rains the philosophies of mums each morning plying jeer can with tough 
faces because the taps have been experiencing months of loneliness in it 
gush. 

The waking of sleepless mums gluing their hope to...

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Categories: dampness, anger, rights,
Form: Political Verse
Easy Prey
He saw her, as soon as he entered the room
It wasn’t her beauty, although she was pretty;
pretty drunk. It was her voice that he heard,
The giggle, that hideous giggle.
She sat on the sofa, glass of...

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Categories: dampness, fear, music, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Comatose
In an irrevocable warp speed instant, 
my head collided into the likeness of drying tar, 
absorbing each horrid layer of concrete. 
That pitch-black, tacky substance covered my body, 
so that I was trapped, sightless, into...

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Categories: dampness, dad, dark, i miss you, loss, pain,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things