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Premium Member The Fallen
“The Fallen”



Remote,
he sees himself 
in the reflection of cold close 
yet distant shop windows, 
his final journey along the 
Hard Time Road
walking alone, 
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life 
a million knives...

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Categories: untarnished, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman,  anarchist airborne, 
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon, 
before...

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Categories: untarnished, america, history, mystery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untarnished, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form: Elegy
The Adverse World
I sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better tomorrows

You know who comforts...

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Categories: untarnished, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, pain, passion, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embrace the Lines
Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water 
marks engraved...

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Categories: untarnished, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Harbinger of Time
Written: March 4th 2024
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Whilst waiting patience is a probity,
swifter straddling startled savvy scare
strong for people enduring anguish
trope for enthusiastic...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untarnished, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue,
Will always remain in a dead language for degenerate times;
And we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line,
Conjecturing a broader...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untarnished, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you descry not my utterance? Listen, yet, for all is precious...

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Categories: untarnished, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Life In a Flash
Born into this World, clean in both heart and soul
Untarnished except for God’s pure hands
Sitting up by myself, consuming more and more
A language starting to form in my head
My cries in the day and night...

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Categories: untarnished, family, growing up, life, day, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Forest of Lost Memories
My thoughts drift...back 
...to days-long ago...
like faded photographs...
the sun is
bright... 
the day is brilliant and crisp...

I stand among the forest of lost moments
like, dear, that run and play...forgotten...memories
...the hunting grounds of my
youth...

Images of love vanished
...victories...

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Categories: untarnished, adventure, allegory, america, analogy, angst, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Am I
Who am I?
This is a question that unable, I am, a definite
Answer to give
For
Buried I find myself,  under layers upon layers of 
Beliefs and prejudices that centuries past, have 
Deposed upon my helpless and...

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Categories: untarnished, creation, introspection, life, prejudice, universe, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sacred Drops
Forth from the heaven, from the misty moorlands of all sacred woodland greens,
drop by drop by striking the pebbles and untouched vegetations oozes, 
the intoning hallowed water of evergreen woods' crystal cascades, brooks and streams.
to...

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Categories: untarnished, beauty, journey, nature, philosophy, romance, senses, solitude,
Form: Romanticism
Early Poems Xvi
Early Poems XVI

The Beautiful People
by Michael R. Burch

They are the beautiful people,
and their shadows dance through the valleys of the moon
to the listless strains of an ancient tune.

Oh, no ... please don't touch them,
for their...

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Categories: untarnished, 12th grade, age, animal, boy, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Under the endless mantle of infinity, where ancient times hide their secrets
Under the endless mantle of infinity, where ancient times hide their secrets,
History is a nightmare shrouded in veils of dark mystery,
A tapestry of shadows and lights, a labyrinth of untold destinies,
In which my wandering soul...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untarnished, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 5
And take the tasks in your own hands  the tasks of your own fate
      do not let the helper from elsewhere tell you what is best
   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untarnished, inspirational, words, age, age,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The World of Expectations Words
The world of Expectations

Expectations, do – in all likelihood – become frustrations.
They, in their painful anger, do become manipulations,
of both – both the aching heart and the fragile soul
and of the one’s you seem to...

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Categories: untarnished, words, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tonight the Heavens Sing a Melody
Part Three of Ancient doubles poems
  
(5.)
Tonight The Heavens Sing A Melody

Bright heavens are sewing new stars tonight
While earth churns its deep seas and pauses not
Sleep the children, all tucked in so tight
We thank...

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Categories: untarnished, appreciation, art, creation, dedication, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Harvest
Golden leaves transcend autumns harvest, contrasted by
Blazoned reds burnt offerings of summers final sacrifice to
The changing of the seasons, oh what a palette of magnificence,
Is nature set to the rheum of our universe!

In the chilling...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untarnished, adventure, autumn, beauty, creation, imagery, imagination, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Together In Spirit
Together in Spirit.
	I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine, we are forever together in love, heart, mind, and spirit. Their love was sealed upon each other’s heart’s as their eye’s glimpsed into the...

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Categories: untarnished, death, dedication, faith, heaven, hope, inspirational love,
Form: Lyric
For Them
For them.

To her the word love refers to a boy.
Something she yearns for and misses dearly.

The day they met was cold and fraught with January chill.

“Oh, that does seem so long ago.”

That is the untarnished...

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Categories: untarnished, inspirational, life, love, day, dream, home, day,
Form: Ballad
The Last Day of Laurie Jeanne
O!  Laurie-Jeanne, Laurie-Jeanne!  Belle of my Heart!
Why did you have to fly?
From me who sang you a lullaby,
From the hospital room, ‘neath the thundering sky,
Beneath the thundering sky!?

O!  I love my Laurie-Jeanne...

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Categories: untarnished, death, loss, love, marriage, sad, spiritual, trust,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Antithesis
Antithesis

In May, the lion’s ear blooms immaculately,
As if the night sky is on fire.
It excretes a ravishing untarnished beauty,
A mesmerizing compelling beauty
Only the mad mystics and poets can discern.
Here, put on these rubber sandals;
The pair...

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Categories: untarnished, love,
Form: Free verse
A Room Filled With Sadness
A room filled with sadness 

Standing alone in a room filled with sadness
Photograph smiles in a frame on the shelf
Ashtrays are filled with a death wish still breathing
Lighting another in spite of myself 

A hand...

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Categories: untarnished, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Fairytale Girl
a baby girl is born, innocent and free
hopes and dreams untarnished 
can be what she dreams to be 
doctor or a teacher? a mommy? yes I see!

a princess in a castle, what a site that'll...

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Categories: untarnished, lost love, girl, magic, together,
Form: Rhyme
Bullies
Maybe it’s when they are born that their heart shows signs of fault.
That instead of pumping red, they pump blue into the body of steel.
Maybe when they take their first breathes, some specs of evil...

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Categories: untarnished, 12th grade, anxiety, bullying, depression,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things