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Premium Member Portraits of Racial Politics
“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...

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Categories: traverses, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Differences You Say
Differences – you say !

I – me Lass – brave Helios, rides his golden chariot, 
drawn by fiery Steeds, into the vastness of this universe.

These mighty Titans, dispatched – brilliant, glowing -
ruled, controlled the blueness...

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Categories: traverses, friend, universe,
Form: Rhyme
A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY
A MINISTER RETIRES :  
SOLILOQUY 

I arise as infant Phoenix 
from Akasha ashes 
counterparts frozen 
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration 

Source Light breathes into 
fontanelle slowly sleepily  
Sekmet my...

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Categories: traverses, change, character, emotions, extended metaphor, growth, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In the silky night, dotted with mystery
In the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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Categories: traverses, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Translation of David Broza's Ay Amor Que Seria De Mi, Lyrics By E N Glass
Translation of David Broza's " ! Ay Amor ! Que seria de mi ! " by T. Wignesan

( I'm not certain if this' s the original title of the lyrics composed by Eitan Nahmias GLASS....

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, anxiety, break up, heartbreak, sad love, song,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member In Search of You
Day one; I leave the coast following the great black river.  Its meandering slow water sneaking slowly and silently past the ancient pines and hardwood trees gathered near its banks like a band of...

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Categories: traverses, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member In the vast ocean of my thoughts, I try, I swear I try
In the vast ocean of my thoughts, I try, I swear I try,
To open my soul like a nocturnal flower,
To become that companion you can easily find in the night.
But often my ears are burdened...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry, the supreme form of knowledge and expression, is the window to infinity
Poetry, the supreme form of knowledge and expression, is the window to infinity,
Through which the soul traverses hidden, unseen, and deep realms,
Religion, science, philosophy, mathematics, art, all are but shadows of divine magic,
In delicate verses,...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rigamarole of Traitors
The US Marshall is a tedious branch, that can be manipulated over a process of a deadly undergoing investigation. The perpetrator was very elusive from the get-go. He boards a US Marshall plane rigged to...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, addiction, betrayal, conflict, hope, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't Look Closely
Ottava Rima & ABC. Sadly, due its lack of artistic values and matching verbiage that would have met with an arguable challenge, hail an NFC poem--you see, as I found the bite in this baby...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, analogy, art, cool, extended metaphor, imagery, imagination,
Form: ABC
Concord Massachusetts Passingways
Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them 
I swing around enormous trees 
skirt quickly...trying to catch up

were we holding hands as we walked
...did we hold hands?
I can't recall
but the muster...

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Categories: traverses, funeral, garden, history, i love you, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Earth One
A vision woke me from my sleep,  a dream. Images I feared would return, darkening day-to-night shadows, faulty dreams of time gone by extinguishing existence of mind, heart, and soul.
 
It was birthing in...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, absence, earth, environment, humanity, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Miasma
I see the space between
Earth and Heaven
Maya and Brahman
As bubble film
I will metastasize through it
And become light

I am in an anteroom with God, He says
Oh the things that man could do with an orchestra
As much...

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Categories: traverses, art, god, truth,
Form: Free verse
Cocoa(Nuts) In Punta Cana
Four palms, one taller, the other three measure the same.
Heavily anchored in sand, all are vertical climbers of this azure sky.
Eight new fronds per palm, the older ones neatly trimmed by man.
No cocoanuts anywhere to...

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Categories: traverses, funny, holiday, placessun, planet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member There are forgotten fords, in the shadow of our silence, places within us that cry out in waiting
There are forgotten fords, in the shadow of our silence, places within us that cry out in waiting,
A path that flows through the waters of memories, the river of life carries us through hidden valleys,
Someone...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, blue,
Form: Free verse
Aftermath In the Garden


                  Orb pulsates above a secret door,
proudly beaming about the find,
skitters to and fro as if to etch...

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Categories: traverses, love,
Form: Rhyme
This Is Uganda
This is Uganda
My motherland
My home that I love so much
Boom, boom, boom,boom
Another prominent leader has been shot dead
Who is it?
Abiriga, the yellow man
Panic here, panic there
Some arrests here and there
And that’s it
He is gone
And the...

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© Emanzi Ian  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, environment,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Oh, the poet sees you not just as a fleeting shadow that fades into horizons
Oh, the poet sees you not just as a fleeting shadow that fades into horizons,
He falls in love as the sun in gold transfigures the curve of your cheeks,
In the line of the smile that...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hear Them Now
images are slow to fade, where did they go? why were they here?
  pensive pen and ink, a gentle man of measure
  pipe-smoke wafting cool blue persevering pleasure
  cartoon humour designed with...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, family, life, memory, parents,
Form: Verse
She Reaches the Eighth Milestone of Life
(This verse is painted for my Loving Daughter P Suzanna Christy on her 8th birthday) 

It was the day she began to move out,
She’d been in the cradle of her mother’s womb
Some seven years before...

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Categories: traverses, childhood, daughter, dedication, children, happiness, mother, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The carriage with Mr Mihai Eminescu glides silently, unseen
The carriage with Mr. Mihai Eminescu glides silently, unseen,
Through the whispers of Iashi's stones, wrapped in its own mystery.
How long and tiring is the journey through boundless realms,
Emerging from the shadow of the past, with...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traverses, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Works of Art For All To See
A work of art for all to see
That spans across; what can it be?
Functional beauty with history
Its help to man is no mystery.

Bridges, beautiful Bridges!

Bridges with beams, trusses, or arches.
Bridges suspended with trusses below.
Bridges for...

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Categories: traverses, artbeautiful, art, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Ginger Mustard and Spices
You said - Have just put two on here. I have a backlog. Will be back on here later. Hope you are ok. X Any language including alien and northwestern star?  
  2...

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Categories: traverses, allah, appreciation, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Lovelore
What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home
or the Siren’s song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit 
nights in a field of flowers
or trudging across
an arid, scorching desert?
Is it a...

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Categories: traverses, love,
Form: Free verse

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