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Premium Member In simple words
Emerging from a fulcrum deep within,
arises a humming, magnetic pull,
which in each moment does afresh begin,
drenching us with bliss, making heart feel full.
Rapture ignition, thus in renewal,
becomes the new norm, just like our heartbeat,
love’s elixir...

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Categories: likening, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Lift Me Up
Take me to where the wildflowers grow and show me where to go, take me to where the wildflowers grow and wet my soul with the dew of the morning, wake up my spirit at...

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Categories: likening, america, appreciation, best friend, blessing, city, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Figurines
Figurines


Lace up your shoes
Wear your black hoodie 
And your Timberland’s, too
You’ll never know what ‘ll happen to you 
Or where you’ll end up
On your way home 

Your ancestors have walked this land
In shackles and in...

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Categories: likening, abuse, africa, death, evil, flower, freedom, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Grace

"~ (~) ~"

"oh god-
tender, 

gracious - 

render us 
softly upon fields silken-
lavender flower-petaline 
clear-sky's paradise-
golden... - 

till when 
if then 
there-we 
make-it... ?"

bushel, 
animate 
deaden 
never 
ever 
eminent 
this hope. 


your-blessing, 
adduce. 


yes-privy wassail us-
in...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: likening, love, time,
Form: Prose Poetry
Genesis of Thoughts
Narrow and shallow shining laser focus 
     into chasm while teetering on brink
akin to scurrying thru microcosmic burrow 
     of microscopic Manhattan skyscrapers 
   ...

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Categories: likening, 10th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, endurance, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Thee Apple Hove Bing An Herbivore
Thee Apple Hove Bing an Herbivore...?
(hint – app peal)

Sans maintaining a strict carb on diet
     (for Peat Sake) iz like really coal
man, cuz carnivores consume meat,
     which...

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Categories: likening, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, atheist,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Night Walk.
**A WINNING POEM**


That night, my heart pleaded i should
Wait over and pass the night at grand pa's 
Old inn.
Enormous was my concern to reach home 
And see Constance La France.... the rambling poet.
About "create your...

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Categories: likening, adventure, confusion, death, faith, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash 
       a Composition Grandioso
...

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Categories: likening, desire, music, night, romance, storm,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Uncontrollable Desires
I gazed upon the familiar dirt road, partially submerged in the narrow ditch. 
Every inch of its hardened surface was damp to the touch, causing my lips to tremble with uncertainty. 

The darkness that surrounded...

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Categories: likening, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Leftist a Wrist Tuck Crat
Bloody leftist a wrist tuck crat!

Fingers of left hand cried freedom,
detached themselves and declared
mutiny gesticulating thumb thing
awful, than furiously haughtily
prancing, skittering, zipping,...
as self important independent digits

indiscriminately deleting one after
another email, mine eyes gleaned
subject pertaining to...

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Categories: likening, 11th grade, 12th grade, august, character, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashtavakra Gita Verses 16:7 To 16:8
16.7
“As long as there is desire--
which is the absence of discrimination-- 
there will be attachment and non-attachment
This is the cause of the world”

16.8
“Indulgence creates attachment
Aversion creates abstinence
Like a child, the sage is free of both...

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Categories: likening, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Camp
The smell of wood smoke drifts through
The air with no presence of mind to settle anywhere
Except on the clothes of old men who struggle to 
Open tin cans with the anticipation of a child with
An...

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© Mark Heil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: likening, addiction, anxiety, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse
More Than a Handshake With Darkness
darkness invites
bringing out the self that matters
(free of all the chicanery brought on by daylight)
inside the lit candle light
(painting only part of the face, allowing a subtle beauty
illustrated like standing neath’ the full moon)
flickering &
with...

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Categories: likening, life, death, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interview with a Grain of Sand

A reporter balked at his assignment for the week.
Too insulted to keep quiet, he complained, “I’ve never talked
to a grain of sand before!”  “Yet, you must become meek
and DO it,” was the response. To...

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Categories: likening, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Uncle
Come, Gather close, look over my shoulder, grab a seat near to view my insecurities.
And, though, I know it is dark and black, still gaze to view my past of impurities.

A lifetime of brewing with...

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Categories: likening, angel, bible, love, religion,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Somethings Are Like
Somethings are like a  miracles
Somethings are likening dreams
And when you awaken
Does it seem
It does not seem

Some can not see the flowers for the trees
Some may see the little frogs within the leaves
But can others...

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Categories: likening, allusion, dedication, desire, destiny, endurance, faith, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Wanna Be Worse Off
DON'T WANNA BE  WORSE OFF

I don't wanna be worse off, (no)
I don't wanna be worse off,
I don't wanna be worse off,
I don't wanna be worse off, (no)

I don't wanna be worse off, (no)
I don't...

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Categories: likening, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, celebration, desire, endurance, faith,
Form: Lyric
Moonlight Love
In that hidden mystery I call my mind;
There are places I seldom go;
It’s in these places that my soul often cries out;
Perhaps in likening to the wolf that howls to the moon
   ...

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Categories: likening, lovecrazy, me, places,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member God You'Re the Bed I Want To Lie In
Your love is likening a bed, at home;
With four posts as legs represents the world you see;
And the sheets on top are the skies, (blue skies)
God you are the bed  I want to lie...

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Categories: likening, appreciation, christian, desire, devotion, god, relationship, symbolism,
Form: Lyric
Shukran
I have nothing better to say
Than Alhamdulilah on this special day.
Many years ago when Mama gave birth to me,
She knew a success is what I'd turn out to be;
Kiniun the King of the jungle,
Akoni ti...

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Categories: likening, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interlude
“In the gap where no narrow thoughts intrude ~
Heart is bliss imbued in the interlude”
            ~ quote by poet 


Desires that bind, we’ve left...

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Categories: likening, joy, silence, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Decayed
“This world is but thought and thoughts fade away ~
Eternal is God’s love, that’s here to stay”
            ~ quote by poet 


Alive here on...

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Categories: likening, death, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Life Line
I look up from my post, lying on the floor
Questioning the cracks in the ceiling above me
Likening them to my recent history
Stretched from end to end
Wall to wall
They mimic my life
Like jagged scars
A life-line transcribed
From...

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Categories: likening, growth, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Dust
Descriptive voices get louder
While likening dust to powder, 
Evangelizing ones in a sermon. 
Proclaiming it ‘A summon’

The prettily molded man is dust
To all early and late –arriving corpses, a must,
Worse dust, the one obsessed with...

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Categories: likening, death, freedom, irony, lost, lust,
Form: Rhyme
I Pray As I Prey
The first glimpse of this radiant creature, unraveled mind's clarity 
Enchanted fairy tale innocence, God's miracle gift, 'tis rarity 

My heavens opened, likening the world stage parting the red sea 
Innocence so lovely angel's sang...

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Categories: likening, allegory
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs