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Premium Member Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2
Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: softened, bible,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism? 

This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major)   in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...

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Categories: softened, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed.  His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall.  He had but one question for him that he...

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Categories: softened, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Covid Walk
thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
  apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
  my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
  impatiently, she waits for me
  securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: softened, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A World Without Pity Part Ii
I will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;

After I had lost a home, where I'd lived my life long,
So they could build a highway, for the...

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Categories: softened, adventure, earth, fantasy, love, nature, peace, science
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Lifeboat To Hunt a Shrill
Part 5

They continued to fry under a blistering sky
    With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
    We have entered the waters of...

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Categories: softened, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 93
Their sighting of the Village came more quickly than they anticipated, only a few hours after Joulupukki had mentioned it to Lumi.
     “Well, sooner than expected,” Joulupukki said aloud., “almost straight...

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Categories: softened, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Heavens's Poker Game
In the beginning after God had finished creating this land.    
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky 
He watered the...

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Categories: softened, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is me
hopefully you want to hear
my voice in its totality

~the prologue~

just...

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Categories: softened, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member My Love, My Hope, My Goddess
My Love, my Hope, my Goddess there can be no words formed by mortal lips sufficient to proclaim the glory which lived in me the season your love bloomed so completely within my life. My...

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Categories: softened, heartbreak, loneliness, lost love, love, muse, pain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: softened, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture, food, motivation, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ghost Hunter - Continued
The elderly, the injured,
The deficient, the mentally ill,
The sick, the chastened,
The weary, the suicidal,
The innocent, the broken,
The lost, lost, LOST ...
You are NOT there with them ... 
Only sadness and loss and pain.
The animals, the...

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Categories: softened, philosophy, religion, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Dream Within the Child
I woke last night and read my Poe
and asked is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream of a dream?
I know what I don’t know what I know.

In Bethlehem’s cradle, a...

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Categories: softened, blessing, child, christmas, family, hope, philosophy, star,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Jewel Of Jesus -
Who's that girl by the ancient tree...
She's the daughter of a butcher, quiet and pouty...
She's always there, contemplating unspoken prophecy...
She scribbles poetry,
they say her Mother is a sibyl raving...
Solitude serves her like the aroma of...

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Categories: softened, destiny, farewell, jesus, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Ambrosial Aphrodite
O beloved chevalier, 
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments 
and twinkling teal topaz, 
tailored to tempt,
veiling these tanned desires.

My soul sways to a chained string 
of...

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Categories: softened, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Addictive Liberations
I need to talk about addictions,
about my addiction issues,
and maybe yours.

Addiction gets a deserved bad rap
but that doesn't mean we have no more
than mean-spirited possibilities.

Our first addiction,
and, for the lucky ones,
the functional extended multigenerational
multicultural families
and...

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Categories: softened, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Love Letters Beneath the Moonlight - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
My love for you
is beyond prophecy or endowment
and lay before you a love letter from the heart
beneath the moonlight's glow
where our eyes find a silent understanding
that embraces each passionate emotion
swirling and entwined in the depth...

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Categories: softened, beauty, desire, destiny, devotion, moon, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men
“Fire burning in a hill
The lines are rocky rough
Red angels wait to pick remains
The cindered shoulder
Of confused men” 
(Peter Murphy)
 





"On the Cindered Shoulders of Confused Men"



Close your eyes it was all just a bad...

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Categories: softened, betrayal, dark, destiny, fate, mirror, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse
Owlology 101
This is a poem I wrote last year for my grand children....one loves bird...future ornithologist, maybe?

Owls belong to one of two different families or classes,
Even though there are more than 216 types in their masses,
The...

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Categories: softened, bird, education, children, kids, nature, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Sea Impression
Wave a sea softened
                  and a pain and a tenderness
        ...

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Categories: softened, allegory, angel, baptism, beach, beautiful, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Ballade
2015
Starched tears stream, crust
over like a spoiled sweet on 
pink cheeks, flushed,
from suffocated time,
gasping for air,
I shatter at his words like brittle rust,
crushed to dust, 
mind meek.

Fifth time this week.
Shallow breaths to Karma Police,
struggle to...

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Categories: softened, abuse, addiction, anxiety, emo, emotions, hurt, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Through it all
To the lily moon that 
 never forsakes me~
amidst the cruel constellations 
that left me stranded in 
 a melancholic maze
of rain-kissed memories.
I’ll write this prose for you,
on periwinkle paper
perfumed with geranium grace,
 in rhyme-less...

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Categories: softened, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Spring-Tide - Memories On the Breeze
Oh ...

Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony of chaos,
Turmoil the norm ... reality the chill that bites...

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Categories: softened, appreciation, life, lost love, memory, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member July Matinee
Tuck into the public
private seclusion.

My aversion to inclusion
includes a stub, a tub,
a carelessly careful curation,
a velvet rope, a hint of hope,
a folding chair, softened and stickied 
by foam and frothing soda spills.

A not soundless though...

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Categories: softened, love, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Show
The stage was so spectacular I had to wear my glasses.
They only let a handful in with extraordinary passes;
written in a scripted font and lined with foiled gold,
for those of us who had one, they...

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Categories: softened, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

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