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Premium Member The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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Categories: sydney, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Gift
From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sydney, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over 
amber gold wild bush...

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Categories: sydney, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
 
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:

“In the Clouds”



“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter
“Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow,...

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Categories: sydney, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey, mystery, mythology, science
Form: Free verse
Dedication To Alex Braes
The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad 
all he could do was weep 
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...

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Categories: sydney, emotions, funeral, grief, pain, poetry, sorrow, stress,
Form: Free verse



I Hate Flamin' Crows
Me real name it is Bill Vonbertouche,	
but for short most folk just call me Bill.
Me Mum and Dad say I’m real smart,	
but the girls reckon I’m just a dill.	

But let’s just get this one thing...

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Categories: sydney, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Letter
The Letter         

A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea. 

“Come...

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© Les Pick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sydney, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"



Cries the Lowest Sky 
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior 
face raised to ultra Light

The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you

Cries the...

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Categories: sydney, freedom, love, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a child

Soothed you were by twinkling stars
In a crib that faced...

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Categories: sydney, anti bullying, art, beauty, death, depression, sad,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ballad of Molly Jones
David Jones, the best rat catcher Shropshire has ever had
must take some criticism for young Molly turning bad.
Even though his daughter found rich co-incidentals,
no credit could be taken by rat catching Dad's credentials.

At nineteen she's...

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Categories: sydney, history,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Confused I And Stressed In London
is everyone from Barking  Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sydney, city, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zombie Shark
On 11-28-2015, Hurricane Ben, slammed off the shores of Sydney Australia,
Its tremendous waves beaching the second largest shark in the world today,
Colossus, killing him on impact, his remains were taken to the eco science
Lab, nearby...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sydney, adventure, fantasy, halloween, history, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Blanket Marriage
Screaming from his office was loud enough to wake the dead
by our trucking company foreman who was livid when he said,
“That useless bloody mongrel, that scum of the flamin’ earth,
has loaded up a truck with...

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Categories: sydney, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who's Got Trouble
I’ve never put a candidate’s bumper sticker on my car before—
why not take sides—what are you waiting for?
Death puts a stop to daily low intensity warfare but in the meantime—
     ...

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Categories: sydney, america, art, city, dog, science, war, water,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The First Fleet
The First Fleet
by Robert (Bob) Moore

The 26th of January, is called Australia Day
that was when some 10 pound poms, decided they would stay
they had been, for about a week, at a place called Botany Bay
not...

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Categories: sydney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Australia Rising
There is hope in every nation; for the word is going round
That Australians are sweeping fear away'

They are ardent freedom lovers, who are forged as hammered steel, and thery're gathering supporters
Night and day!

There are honest...

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Categories: sydney, confidence, conflict, courage, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
G Grandfather Joe White
JOE WHITE

Back in 1880 you will find, Joe White he was about.
The Brumby runner master mind. Of this I'll leave no doubt.
He took from Mugan station, 600 Brumbies yes my friend.
Had the best riders of...

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Categories: sydney, adventurehome, day, green, home, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 101 Poets
101  POETS

I want to thank 101 poets, when words have no limit.
All 101 spots full of flowing imagery and spirit.
Nathan Dilts my #1~writing for him was so much fun.
Nikko's, words are like a shot...

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Categories: sydney, celebration, community, dedication, friend, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Heat
Flies, drawn to their only sustenance, cloud around my head.
In this cloudless desert sky  - blank, deep-arching cavern of thought  - 
Unblinking  sun stares down but this fire-bird will not fly,
Has no...

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Categories: sydney, adventure, water, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mama Mia
long before i met April
i was a poet true
i had a heart of love 
but no one to give it to
so i put my words on paper
posted them to the net
and got someones attention
that i...

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Categories: sydney, art, words, me, sweet, day, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Gran's Last Wish
Our Gran, that’s on my mother’s side, was British born and raised, 
     until the age of ten it seems, then Gran was quite amazed  
to find her mum and...

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Categories: sydney, funny, old, home, home, me, old, cousin,
Form: Rhyme
Joe White
Back in 1880 you will find, Joe White he was about.
The brumby runner master mind. Of this I'll leave no doubt.
He took from Mugan station, 600 brumbies yes my friend.
Had the best riders of the...

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Categories: sydney, adventure, home, day, home, horse,
Form: Ballad
Exerpts From Hitler's Diary 1941
EXERPTS   FROM   HITLER’S   DIARY   1941

"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to read . .
 . " Oscar Wilde, 1891 

Tues ...

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Categories: sydney, funnywar, crazy, june, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Christmas Wolves
"Christmas Wolves"



Winged ones 
unseen
feathers of pure light
fold their warmth around you 

as you walk 
in solitary silence
throughout the cold
Christmas Dark Night

Warriors alone 
wanting to take flight
always stay by your side
reciting good cheer

They will never leave...

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Categories: sydney, angel, christmas, love,
Form: Free verse
My Growth!
I had to say good bye to my beloved kitty, Sydney.  Syd-Syd as I called her, loved 
to be held.  Her favorite spot was on my shoulder, as if I were burping a...

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Categories: sydney, loss, pets, sad, me, husband, husband, me,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs