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Premium Member Bergfried
I.	  The Settlement

          Hickory bark bluffs
          at the blend of two 
    ...

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Categories: simile, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form: Narrative



Storm
The day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds 
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...

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© Jamie Pan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simile, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Poetry Anthology Part 1
Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings. 
Krish Radhakrishna

The words herein form an anthology of love
From the...

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Categories: simile, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mooku: Haikus On the Moon: With Cliff Notes
1. Lunar Perspective #1

month long day and night
also sees earth wax and wane
no season penchant


2. Lunar Perspective #2

moon's sun mimics earth's
earth pirouettes on star stage
sun’s smile Cheshire Cat


3. Lunar Perspective #3

moon turns once per month
lunar...

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Categories: simile, life, love, moon, science, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa naalam kari (K245)

“The teeming earth's vast realm, round which the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simile, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, tamil,
Form: Couplet



Rileys Comet
A  stunning scene. Edited for our insatiable reading pleasure.  High on a tight-rope.
The debutant wearing her 2-piece at one end. The isis general at the other.The plot is for them to tip-toe, slowly...

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Categories: me, simile,
Form: I do not know?
Ode To African Child
Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
 Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal

Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beauty of nature and life
The belike of Bowie...

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Categories: simile, africa, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Son of Amittai - 1 of 2
commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”

But Jonah ran; he traveled down to Joppa.
(Wait, Jonah who? Oh, Amittai’s...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simile, bible, fish,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Just Guess What!
Guess What? Let us have a little talk
Take a walk and know the winter thoughts
 There is some time left to feel
the sweet essence of a wave a breeze
 The reminder of the plan ahead
...

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Categories: appreciation, blessing, body, confidence, dance, humorous, simile,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poet Identity
Poet Identity

In conversations,
In biographies,
In resumes…all poets are writers,
    but not all writers are poets.
On a careful look into the mirror, when not looking
    for wrinkles, but staring deep into...

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Categories: character, desire, destiny, humanity, inspiration, simile, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Premium Member King Day
KING DAY
(A Retrospective Perspective)

			     David said to Solomon his son, be
			strong and of good courage, and do 
			it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the
			Lord God…will be with thee; he will
...

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Categories: allegory, america, celebration, history, inspirational, metaphor, simile,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member We Wait For Thee

                                  ...

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Categories: jesus, marriage, simile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Goodbye Maya Angelou
Clinton's Inauguration 1993

You were so beautiful, Maya
Standing in front of the
President and the First Lady


I didn’t really understand
Your Pulse Of Morning 
Presidential inauguration poem
I kind of got lost in the dinosaur theme
Poems about Mastodons usually
Don’t...

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Categories: angel, courage, emotions, poetry, presidents day, simile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Dec 2020
"Reigning Cats and Dogs"   Posted 6 Dec 2020

the difference between dogs and cats is      dogs have owners, cats have staff 

who's supposed to read the signs that say...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: simile, cat, dog, humor, pets,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Words Specifically
Collecting words has
resulted into a lifetime of gathering.
now I am choosing which
words to send you;
I send you choice words on special days,
and specific words on chosen days.
I share words that are specific to
‘’The cause’ ’or...

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Categories: emo, extended metaphor, simile, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miracle On 44th Street
Lyrical On 44th Street
 

The argument started at the table
 
He was too soft,
 too timid to quote Gable
 
She said ,"Your dreams aren't keeping the lights on.
 
If I see you writing again, your...

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Categories: simile, caregiving, change, family, father son, inspirational, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Takaha Shugyo Haiku and Tanka Translations
These are my modern English translations of Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka...

hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku

A single tree
with a heart carved into its trunk
blossoms prematurely
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

dôkefuku nugazu tentômushi no...

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Categories: animal, beauty, heaven, nature, sea, simile, stars,
Form: Haiku
Advice to Young Poets
Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under the bridge
for me to believe
there’s just one acceptable path.
In poetry everything’s permitted.



Byron
was not...

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Categories: simile, light, poems, poetry, poets, world, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Existential Conundrum
detangling figurative philosophical,
     (i.e. ineffable) thread tightly bound
most likely requires a greater capacity
     (than mine) to expound,
considerably superior than
this feeble intellectual attempt,
     nonetheless...

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Categories: simile, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Immaculate Deception
Had been perfect and free from corruption, a natural singularity
Fractals proceeding from fractals in perfect regularity
Then, all of a sudden – a cataclysm – this pattered had been shattered
Like crystals being diluted by a prankster...

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Categories: simile, 8th grade, 9th grade, absence, allusion, anger,
Form: Abecedarian
Too Many Lives Are Floating In This Flood Wave
Too many lives are floating in this flood wave

Mon Ami,

I am honored to be included in your exposition
Theological border walls

You were opening your glittering purse, 
A set of cloth line clips,

I was gazing there
From a...

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Categories: simile, for her,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Egg
Might it be a pool or wishing well
with rainbow ripples round it wound
within an enchanted cosmic dell
of a fabulous world newfound—

or perhaps a spacetime passageway
that tunnels through regions yonder
to place where poets come out to...

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Categories: simile, animal, humanity, imagery, imagination, nature, space, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Sunday Street
She walked down the street with her hands clasp in thine and for one moment it felt like something divine; she was walking out of an old life into a new one, but I couldn’t...

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Categories: simile, beautiful, confidence, deep, friend, inspirational love, joy,
Form: Narrative
Flaws
Whats about these flaws that everyone is scared of 
Scared enough to hide behind a mask
But never show them to the world 
Somewhere we are scared to live in this for too long as well
What...

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Categories: art, beautiful, cute, literature, poetry, simile, writing,
Form: Free verse
Resemblance
Resemblance
by Michael R. Burch

Take this geode with its rough exterior—
crude-skinned, brilliant-hearted ...
a diode of amethyst—wild, electric;
its sequined cavity—parted, revealing.
Find in its fire all brittle passion,
each jagged shard relentlessly aching.
Each spire inward—a fission startled;
in its shattered...

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Categories: metaphor, passion, simile, solitude, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

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