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Premium Member The Messenger
"The Messenger"

Love is rich with 
venom and honey. 

there was a female ...

snake, 
it watched 
with green-eyed 
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest

the dove, 
was white as snow, 
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey

the dove 
alone,...

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Categories: retrieve, dark, journey, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Whats Behind the Curtain
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains. 
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....

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Categories: retrieve, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Behind
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains. 
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....

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Categories: retrieve, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form: Blank verse
To Be a Friend Pleaser
I heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling, 
Have I felt more of the need to...

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Categories: retrieve, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 79
Lumi smiled and reached out to grab his shoulder.  They passed over the ridge where, as Joulupukki had said, a small hamlet clung to the side of the mountain about equal distance to the...

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Categories: retrieve, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 77
“Who...what are you?”  His gaze moved from Joulupukki to Lumi.  Lumi offered,
     “I am an elf of the Village Clan, and this is my companion Joulupukki.”
   ...

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Categories: retrieve, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Principal Clown
He walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profound....

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Categories: retrieve, break up, business, community, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member By the Sea
As she saw it.


The mountains and the meadows were always so beautiful this time of year.  It seemed as if a fresh new world always came to life. The high cliffs turned sharply downward....

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Categories: retrieve, beautiful, body, desire, grandmother, imagination, me, mother,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Serling and Roddenberry for Tea: IMPORTANT Epilogue Update
"What sort of world
be home to those
who goes about
judging all souls
of what they do
be right or wrong
and how'd they know
of this-and-that
be bad or good
be alsoooo, true
lest they were told
from the same lot
who walked the walk
and...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieve, allusion, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, evil, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Make It Up To Me
Insecurities is gone in a heart beat now
Emotional injuries fade away somehow
I can feel the tension as it sheds away 
I can deal with the motion of your sway

I feel you here with me, no...

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Categories: retrieve, abuse, angst, depression, emotions, endurance, hurt, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slow Gin and Astral Conversations
"Slow Gin and Astral Conversations"



A maze me?

I’m the architect 
of my own destiny
he beguiled her 
incessantly 
from the depths of 
his bottled up Carceri
she knew him 
before he became 
a complex 
well-hidden 
Piranesi
twixt your world
and...

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Categories: retrieve, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Chapter 137-- same day DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: DJ Desharah Amadeus
Date:   April  2050

Same day:  
Damian walked with 
Godfrey Barrington Shadir and Matthias 
Isiah the others across to the
Other side of The estate to visit Desharah 
Damali and Sedanah. Arrival was
Swift. Damali...

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Categories: retrieve, allusion, child,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieve, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Chapter 51-- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Ii
The seven were "all healthy and 
Well cared for" Dr. Maxim 
Stated. She was a little 
Concerned about Adian. He
Only gained one pound since
His birth. Molly said, "I'm 
Worried he's not getting enough 
Milk. I'm...

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Categories: retrieve, bangla, birth, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 73
This became their routine for the next four days, until on the fourth night they were looking for a clearing in which to ground the deer, when the marker became so bright in front of...

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Categories: retrieve, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Chapter 151- Pt 3 same day - DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The Wedding PLAN
Date: April   2051

Dolly was beginning a slow panic.
"Alright this can not fail! "Where are
They now? The wedding is tomorrow!"
I wanna call Virginia make sure their
On the up side at home. I I can...

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Categories: retrieve, absence, africa, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One                     ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieve, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Chapter 158 --DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: CRUEL Ball Continuation -same day
Date:  May  2051

Damian CJ Adonis and Kyon watched
As did family and other relatives did
Also, while quite many new players
Replaced other younger players
That needed a break. CJ  announced 
The new players on the...

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Categories: retrieve, allusion, child, color, confidence, death, family, father
Form: Alliteration
The Silver Axe
He wondered with horror how so many memories, so many forms to be branded on his skin and engrave there.

Then the wet rattle of a twisted throat, and he beats his last breath to his...

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Categories: retrieve, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 61
In the cottage Dyndoeth spoke with Joulupukki.  
     “I simply do not see any way that you can accomplish the goals you have set in the amount of time that...

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Categories: retrieve, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Last Love Letter
Oh to vacation behind the heavy metal door
To escape another election year.
All news is stopped at the door by the guards
Whoever sit in the same place
Waiting
Always
Waiting to retrieve all banned goods
And outside time. 
Between med...

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Categories: retrieve, addiction, blue, mental illness, new york, political,
Form: Narrative
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday
November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...

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Categories: retrieve, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Twilight Zone
“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”              ...

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Categories: retrieve, granddaughter, grave, prison,
Form: Narrative
Goodbye To Home
Sand in my lungs and in every nook and cranny possible, nothing out here not even a simple bush or tree. Everything is dead and dry as a bone. My own skin holds no life,...

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© Cat Way  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrieve, art, me, woman, old, me, old,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mystery of the Poltergeist
Mystery Of The Poltergeist

It is said, “All things in balance”,
yin has it’s yang, plus has it’s minus,
all things in balance is natures way.

There is however another important factor in this design,
the mean, the balance point.
This...

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Categories: retrieve, death, introspection, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things