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Premium Member In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound
In It,  I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound


I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" 
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's,  "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...

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Categories: literary work, art, imagination, inspiration, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member History Repeats Itself
I was an accomplished librarian, who took pleasure from written words,
As opera singers find their pleasure, in the halls where music is heard.

I was well matched to such absorbing work, knowing it was worthwhile,
Like stars...

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Categories: literary work, books, fantasy, history, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member It Is Written In the Stars
As a historian I was focused, on the long record of writing,
Considered an expert in the field, I found it most exciting.

For countless delights have arisen, out of the written word;
And we only knew crude...

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Categories: literary work, fantasy, history, imagery, magic, words, world, writing,
Form: Couplet
Inspiration In Absentia
When I use my pen more often as a dart
then a tool for writing poetry, I'm lost.

When my mind can't find words that rhyme
I grumble to myself about my unfaithful muse.
She leaves no clues when...

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Categories: literary work, absence, muse, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Sweet Missy
MY SWEET MISSY

                                ...

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Categories: literary work, appreciation, daughter, mother daughter, thank you, tribute,
Form: Free verse



I Can'T Compare Your Love
I can't compare your love to a sweet red rose,
For roses whither and they die.
I can't compare your love to the deep blue sea,
For it rises and falls with the tide.
I can't compare your love...

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Categories: literary work, love, passion, peace, sea, seasonsbeautiful, rain, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
What Else
'Hole in Heaven' composed by the certain dramatist of India
Depicting the Heaven captured by earthly power-mania
Yahweh’s three-leg-throne getting easily bombarded 
And the whole heavenly communion getting annihilated

'Bye, Bye, Butterfly' I titled a poetic piece once,...

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Categories: literary work, literature,
Form: Free verse
Why Be a Poet
Someone asks if my literary work is fiction or reality
Engaging and inspiring those to read with affection
Expressing my thoughts and feelings through poetry
Weaving my spiritual, cultural, or historical reflections

Acceptance of God’s gift to write in...

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Categories: literary work, muse, october, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Write
Anyone lucky to have read or hear
The poetry that I write may
Wonder the reasons for why
I write. As if I have to explain
The creativity that flows through
My brain.
For the sake of growth and development 
As...

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Categories: literary work, analogy, destiny, encouraging, freedom, happiness, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Bio
Premium Member As Esoteric As Secrets
Why should thoughts, ideas and dreams be
as esoteric as secrets?
Turn them into poetry,
and share them with the entire Humanity...
I have shared mine with all without ambiguity!


No fortress, stately rising into the vast skies,
can escape the...

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Categories: literary work, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection, on writing and
Form: Verse
Once Upon a Horse
(Fighting windmills is the story.)

A fantasy to escape the fall, the void of all
Reality is not that tall when on the horse
Stories plunge the young into the light
Truth stabs the heart once in the hour...

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Categories: literary work, adventure, character, fantasy, hero, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquenchable Thirst
Vivid imagination spins,
when one creates
a fine literary work...
life would never be happier.


When one creates,
ideas keep on flowing...
life would never be happier
with thoughts swifter than light.

Ideas keep on flowing
like water from a waterfall
with thoughts swifter than...

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Categories: literary work, imagination, inspirational, life, mystery, nature, on writing
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Great Write
My heart is breaking
Great write
My demons are waking
Great write
My heart is abused
Great write
My body is used
Great write
I’m going under
Great write
Deafened by thunder
Great write
I cry night and day
Great write
I can’t find my way
Great write
I’m lost and...

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Categories: literary work, pain, parody, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Lives To Eat
37 % of adult Americans eat to live; the remaining 63% live to eat. This latter group is
classified as overweight/obese. The protagonist in this literary work is one of them.

She sits alone on a stuffed...

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Categories: literary work, food, health
Form: Verse
Adieu Not Goodbye
Why do I grieve a poet without a loss

Did the muse run dry along with the ink,

But to lose this inspiration will cost

literary work will suffer without this link,

how do I fill that lonely empty...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literary work, goodbye, hurt, loss, muse, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Am Who I Am This Is Who I Am Biography
I AM WHO I AM THIS IS WHO I AM BIOGRAPHY

B- Being told a written piece of literary work
I- Involving written placements of words of ones origin
O-Opening up dialog on the bases of one’s beginning...

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Categories: literary work, assonance, word play,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs