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In the Manse Market For a Preowned Spa House
In the manse market for a preowned spa house

Mine feeble efforts pale in comparison
to a kid scaling El Capitan
of Yosemite National Park,
nevertheless me, a dry witted husband
self emasculated milquetoast
of late ofttimes yawps imprecations
against fickle finger...

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Categories: unattained, absence, allegory, angel, appreciation, autumn, black african
Form: Free verse



The Goddess of Love
The Goddess of Love


The exuberant fire that burns within my soul,
In that first embrace of a lovers smile;
Shall forever be held, in equality to the power of love.
Her servant shall forever wish for her luminous,...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, beauty, destiny, god, love, smile, trust, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Shadows in the Broken Mirror
Shadows in the Broken Mirror
In the endless shadow of the soul, where unfulfilled dreams take shelter,
Lies an unbounded love, the destiny of a beloved in chains,
A storm of misunderstood feelings, a sea of despair,
And a...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Pardon Mine Allegiance To Infidelity
Unfaithful marital transgressions
self admitted indictment,
crime and punishment,
no longer think high lee
entailing no mister re: demeanors,
I searingly weathered

(George by bushed, albeit thankfully,
no unwanted child left behind),
nonetheless one unforgettable
indelible, execrable, and abominable
professedly owned his
civil warring battle of...

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Categories: unattained, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Tensed Acknowledgement
TENSED ACKNOWLEDGEMNT

To mother, my photocopy
To mother's love so high 
To her undying feelings
My image maker in the eve of
My waxing re-refinement
Things will never be left unsaid
Words will never be left untouched
But reasons be kept in...

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Categories: unattained, age, angel, art,
Form: Narrative



Spring Awakenings

 
As the earth dances in a stately minuet about its celestial lover      
Bringing forth in its progression a season of rebirth and colour

Conferring on the land and air an...

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Categories: unattained, beauty, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
November 13th 2017 - Part 1
November 13th 2017 
Happy 83rd birthday to thy cremated mom

Harriet Harris fought tooth and nail
Mother succumbed 
to terminal illness without fail 
Ovarian/ Uterine Cancer to no avail
hosted by death feasted fancy 
at Oyster Bay metastasized...

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Categories: unattained, dark, grave, happy birthday, heartbroken, obituary, son,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Pastels of Peace
I dream 
in the golden glow
of a sakura orchid
nestled between blooming browns~
as saffron streaks of sunsets
  spill syllables of l o v e and trust,
scented with sugared crystals,
emitting musical verses
to calm the inner child~
healing...

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Categories: unattained, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
Lead Weight
Lead Weight

To look from the peak of dreams
And open those inspirational wings
Take flight on eternal winds
Heart in its space soaring
Trusting to loves imaginings

A leaping embrace into the presence of light
Eyes and smiles generous with accepting
Extricated...

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Categories: unattained, childhood, depression, sadinspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Is Who I Am
I am...

a lamb of the Good Shepherd; seeking to love and follow him more faithfully

the husband of my college sweetheart; with her, I hold a winning lottery ticket

a family man; seeking to make my clan...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, i am,
Form: List
From Bondage To Bondage Part B
But then my friends in sixties I suppose 
From Abundance to Complacency we rode 
Secured in all we ever thought possible 
With riches that we all wanted to behold 
New houses built in every locale...

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© Will Karry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Greed Allotments
Upon the transit city streets
Where all the faces seldom meet
and hands are seldom held in greet
as ears and eyes avoid hungers reek
Who clamors for the hungry born? 
While food is stuffed in fattened heads
delivered from...

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Categories: unattained, business, corruption, poverty, society,
Form: Rhyme
Any Someone
It can take any someone the rest of their life
to explain a strange dream 
they had one restless night
it left them with a whisper 
that seems never to die
an invisible message which colours their eyes
and...

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Categories: unattained, children, dream, freedom,
Form: Free verse
An Answer For All, Part 2
Effective farm proves strong 
Success of facilitated facts 
Emerge under stressed weight 
Fattened feeding for slaughter 
Feet to the file
Starting storms as statements 
Control as a conclusion 
Garden once left unattained 
Renewed in fruitful temperance
For...

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© Luke Hobbs  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, philosophy, riddle, satire, society, symbolism, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rise Up America
ARISE,  O troubled one sandwiched between two oceans,                          ...

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Categories: unattained, america,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member What do you do when the longing for you burns in my chest
What do you do when the longing for you burns in my chest,
My heart cries silently, calling your name, misunderstood,
Through night dreams, in the moonlight's shine, I search for you ceaselessly,
I wonder in silence, where...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, longing,
Form: Free verse
Beseeching the Whitelace Ghost
( A sequel to my poem “The Lady of Whitelace Castle” )


Are ye, my lady, an apparition
or perchance a fair servant frail?
The ruddiness of pinks 
touching neither your cheeks
as you wander about so pale

My lips...

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Categories: unattained, fantasy, first love, romantic, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Come To Me
A friend of a friend told me you were looking for me
I feel there's much to be said cuz u can't hear what you can see
Things are getting worse than what they shouldn't even be
The...

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Categories: unattained, friendship, sorry, friend,
Form: I do not know?
Carve Us Deeper In the Stone
A graveyard stands upon the hill;
its tombstones smoothed beneath the tide
of nature's forces beating hard;
I pass and hear the buried cry.
"Reverse the trend, relentless grown,
that would erase our names for aye;
for who grants thought to...

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Categories: unattained, death, grave, grief, longing,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Broken Bridges An Ekphrasis Tribute
beside the sea
       running sa
slowly
    flowing
as floods
       released
where
     rivers meet
out
of
reach

waterside
      ...

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Categories: unattained, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Galactic Force

Beyond the skyline, I watch an expanse
    outside this earthly  realm…
torches of  balls glitter in seamless motion,
 orange streaks rolling in random numbers,
    circling ' round their...

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Categories: unattained, planet, space,
Form: Imagism
Done
When youth was ripe and strong
And accomplishment was infantile
Future was but an un-walked pathway
Stretching the distance to today.

Events and persons still unknown
Would fill history yet to be made
Written in tears of joy and tragedy
Propelled by...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unattained, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Narrative
Bloodylust
Bloodylust and tempted into the fire,
Conjuring the moon with a sip of wine
My filth has overwhelmed my nature
and the stench clampers its presence in the air
Wild ravenous, and stalking fast into the dark
Juggling imagination with...

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Categories: unattained, fear, people, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oblivion
To see and yet not see, the world around,
As time passes unattained, unadmired, silent.
A ghost in a realm that seemed to confound.
To which dereliction a truth compliant.
Yearning for yearning is a futile dream.
While gathered thoughts...

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Categories: unattained, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Your Plant In My Garden
Suddenly the words came at last
'Would you lend me your garden this season?' 
Your face lit up with surprise
'I want no seeds on them but your plant will I water' 

Oh what a terrible answer...

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Categories: unattained, absence, addiction, adventure, angel, deep, love, lust,
Form: Narrative

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