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Premium Member Too Close
"Don't get too close"

(Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze ...)

We are taught from day one
Not to get involved ...
"Don't get too close to your patients,
Or the emotions will get the better of you"
Don't get too close ...
Don't get...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, child, health, heart, life, metaphor, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To Mankind
Prologue:
	
	To the majority of people who seem to have lost touch
	this is presented as a declaration to be treated as such.
	And just for the world's deteriorating natural environment
	of which we're all a contributing cause by...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, birth, corruption, death, environment, fate, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Mount Moriah
First person narrative from the perspective of a mountain…

Isaiah 55:12 “ For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains and hills shall break forth before you into singing,...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, bible, christian, creation, faith, god, gospel, mountains,
Form: Narrative
Hoarding Hope - the Odd Ball
Get me feeling well
For, I am sick as hell
Brain orgasms and headaches rape my mind and left me thoughtlessly behind
Trying to keep the Kingdom in remembrance before I grow blind or lose my mind
I am...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, angst, depression, emotions, happiness, hope, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Following Our Rules
In our Sharing Circles
we have a ground rule
to share a one speaker at a time floor
and unitarian silent listening support

And rules to not share uninvited commentary
suggestions
verbal agreements or disagreements
during, and after,
this formalized Circle.

Speakers are invited...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, community, culture, earth, freedom, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Eudaimonia's Crown
In the silent chambers of the questing mind,
We seek the thread that binds our fragile souls.
Eudaimonia, concept undefined,
Beckons us towards our highest goals.
What makes a life well-lived, a heart fulfilled?
Is it in wealth or fame...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, education, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11:6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession— 
I am Awareness itself.”

One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”


We now enter still...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy
What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of sorrow that engulfs us, rendering us incapable of envisioning a...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation, perspective, philosophy, proposal,
Form: Prose
High School Sadness Sans Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One Half
Subtitled: A Quiz Sic Hull Emotionally Test Ting Senior Event
 
Valedictorian treads across makeshift platform 
   i.e. most likely auditorium stage
marked by pronounced hushed audience, 
   who exude a collective sigh...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, celebration, class, dedication, father daughter, february, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Through the Vicious Eyes of Love
"Through the Vicious Eyes of Love"



All is fair 
in love and war

or so they say;

why so 
as saints,
mothers 
go through
the course of whore 
to feel torn in two
journeying
through gates 
that open 
unleashed pain -

then, at...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, child, i am, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worlds Within Worlds
There are worlds within worlds in this world of ours
as there are seconds in minutes and minutes in hours.
Take for example the world of the artists and their creations
how they represent aspects of nature and...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, appreciation, inspiration, literature, philosophy, religion, science, world,
Form: Rhyme
Existential Storytelling
“I heard a note once,.”  Charles said with conviction and bass from his gut.
Every night with chuck we reached this point ,
Existential storytelling, usually after four drinks or eight drinks.
Talking about government and it’s...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, philosophyme, beauty, beauty, drink, joy, me, sad,
Form: Free verse
I Don'T Know You
Do I know you?

I see you watching me, and every word I write, you read, but I don't know who you are.

You sometimes comment, often vote, tell me how you feel about what I wrote,...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, computer-internet, confusion, friendship, words, me, write, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Her Life
She sees the pains,
Which her native folk have gained.
She changed from a little girl
To someone who has always had the potential
To change her own little personal inner world.
As a child she never went through
What some...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, culture, humanity, native american, people, poetess, race,
Form: Free verse
To My Parents
You have given me
The most beautiful gift
That I have never expected...
...LIFE
You've offered me love, tender and affection
You've given me all that you posses
You are my two best friend
On this earth
You have direct me through my...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, caregiving, dedication, family, father, life, love, motherme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the twilight of my thoughts, where shadows dance with fleeting light
In the twilight of my thoughts, where shadows dance with fleeting light,
I wander through the labyrinth of my mind, a landscape of dreams and intertwined fears.
One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: joy and sorrow, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
No Woman , No Cry
The bags under her eyes are very heavy,
You call them her luggage 
Why does she handle so much luggage ?
Because she keeps moving foward never forgetting her past 
Her cry cries out,
Sweet mother, salty tears.
Where...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, black african american, black love, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At the edge of twilight, where logic fades
At the edge of twilight, where logic fades,
and the labyrinthine corridors of thought stretch endlessly,
I find myself wandering on the shoreless sea of imagination,
where poetry breaks the chains of reason,
and everything is equally possible and...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: joy and sorrow, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath the twilight's veil, I ponder
Beneath the twilight's veil, I ponder,
On the path of wisdom, not granted but discovered,
We traverse a labyrinth of silent nights,
Seeking light where shadows reign.
In the ethereal corridors of dreams, I wander,
Among the echoes of ancient...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: joy and sorrow, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
~ the Bouquet ~
Humbly holding forth this bouquet of flowers

Within these sincere and love filled hands ~

Marked by lines that have defined themselves, through time....

The spectrum of colors across these pages, these shades

Endlessly, from black unto white; crossing...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, lovelove,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Autumn's Reverie of Beauty and Decay
In autumn's graceful waltz of time
Where beauty and decay lovely intertwine.
And where joy and sorrow blissfully dance
In grace, they move this is a mesmerizing rhyme.

Leaves fall like a master painter's dream
Such a masterpiece mixed in...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, autumn, dance, dream, halloween, metaphor, october, september,
Form: Rhyme
The Velvet Life
Oh, my love, your intoxicating eyes,
Like lotus flowers, your lips, a treasure to the skies.
Your waist, a velvet lotus, your voice, a cuckoo's call,
Leaves me breathless, and in heaven's thrall.
Show me your mercy, give me...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, break up, death, fantasy,
Form: Elegy
A Senior Moment - Part Uno
enjoy the reed
now displayed as a satisfactory deed.
*          *          *       ...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, dedication, happiness, high school, how i feel,
Form: Elegy
Love Story
Love Story of two Innocent Hubby & Wife:
https://youtu.be/OpLD97fG9Hw
Oh beloved with the Beautiful eyes.
Give me your heart or give me a curse.
I am crazy about you.
I am a carefree lover.
Girls start talking with the boy 
Oh...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, angel, family, husband, marriage, proposal, wedding, wife,
Form: Romanticism
Invitation To Sorrows
Come, O sorrows and be my waking call, 
Be to my life of joys a bit of blight, 
Upon a hard day's work a short respite, 
Be pleasant autumn before barren fall. 

Come with dark...

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Categories: joy and sorrow, grief, pain,
Form: Ode

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