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Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
the scent of soil and...

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Categories: unwound, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



Premium Member The Verdict
.                          NOW

Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...

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Categories: unwound, society, war,
Form: Ballad
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.               
It is almost as if the drab 
Streets were strewn...

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Categories: unwound, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications
Dream state yields deep sleep personifications

Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness 
despite being...

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Categories: unwound, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Circumlocution
In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
they strike the heart then coil and cling.

Through jungles thick...

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Categories: unwound, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy, society, vanity,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake
Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,  
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.  
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumbled smoke and silver hair. ...

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Categories: unwound, appreciation, introspection, mother son,
Form: Free verse
The Walk Home
A walk home 
...And there he lie in fetid squalor,
Upon the chaise in vacant parlour...

“What befell this young man?” a query.
A sorrowful tale - tis quite dreary. 
Tricks! The superstitious mind doth play. 
Bested -...

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Categories: unwound, dark, death, evil, fear, horror, imagination, night,
Form: Narrative
Back To You Billy, For Ways I Whiled Away Herding Ennui
Back to you Billy, for ways I whiled away herding ennui

Ah...a flood of memories wash over
this anointed Goatama Boo Da,
whose respected G.O.A.T status
among generic green acres, 
which swathed across Highland Manor 
analogous to petty coat...

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Categories: unwound, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
sundered tulips
New York Theory

Boo don't talk to me news
He rebegins
Chaste in here with you
I held out empty ink
Twirling walls 
Rampant porcelain dreams
Too many parks
In one day, destroyed me

sundered tulips

Tell my brother not of his famine
Call my...

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Categories: unwound, film, rap, vanity, work, writing,
Form: Free verse
STAND II
Beneath a sky veiled in black velvet silence
The moon’s silver sliver grins like a knife, a greedy eye
Carving hollow light across a hallowed field
Where footsteps dissolve and flee
Consumed by the earth’s whispers
Each step is a...

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Categories: unwound, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger, art, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boa's Ark - Part 1
1. MORNING HAS BROKEN 
The men, in lines, tramp two by two,
forgetting all the women who
indulged them through a night of tricks
(their lips designed with crimson sticks,
their eyes a wild mascara mix)

and think instead on...

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Categories: unwound, death, fantasy, philosophy, time, war,
Form: Rhyme
Lucie's Dreaming Part One 'Picturesque Riverside Setting'
Coke and weed
Hold nothing on me
She spoke the dream
 I chose to believe

We ride behind the unseen
Stride valleys of green
With shadows that sheen
 And caveats that sparkle

Even further a field
What may you yield
These layers unpeeled
...

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Categories: unwound, drug, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red At the End of Gold
I was a happy fruit farmer, growing delicious, healthy fruits for consumption.
Since we'd bought the farm ten years prior, all the family lent to its function.

It was a large, productive farm, and we ran it...

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Categories: unwound, fantasy, fruit, joy, nature, red, sunset, tree,
Form: Couplet
Strange Relief
Masks please the eye,
Tears he heart.
You just need to smile wide,
They'll forget your broken part.

Never remove that mask,
They'll try to tear you to pieces.
For you it would be such an easy task,
To finally get even.

You...

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Categories: unwound, angst, death, depression, farewell, heartbreak, leaving, pain,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Lost Love Deliria - Part 3
 Part 3

9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured prisons, ponies bridled ... yearning,
forest fairies under thumb
Sounds inside of cauldrons coughing......

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Categories: unwound, lost love, time,
Form: Rhyme
After Goodbyes
I asked her to reconsider her decision to leave and she said what I think was eather " Go to hell or Lil Gary goodbye !"
So I waited till she pulled out of my driveway...

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Categories: unwound, deep, emotions, grief, growth, heart, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Doctor Rippy Tampa General Hospital Aged Twelve
When i was a young boy - ink stained test once with the girl
and the ink was sweet he 'said';
it made us unclean this test, from the man for he was the tester;
And that picture...

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Categories: unwound, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Bio
Welcome To Murkland
Beneath the River Somnium,
Abandoned Wishes hymn: quiet in the viaduct:

Reverse the Lodestone;
Reverse the First Sin;
Reverse the Autumn Hearse;
Reverse the Universe.

We are the murk men, intangible ends—inebriated together
With Beelzebub our friend. Absolvent now in burning skin,...

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Categories: unwound, dark, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Being Human
BEING HUMAN

Brave she was and searched for light in blinding darkness
Encouraged by intense desire she illuminated odds and evens
Intuitively she knew how madness was insanely normal
Not straying from the path of love and kindness empathy...

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Categories: unwound, soulmate, universe,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Onset Surges Like Tsunami 1st Wave
Unbeknownst tummy why, (around
about 2200 hours October 5th, 2018),
     a slew of forgotten incidents quasi
lee linkedin, and questionably
     nsync, though lightly browned

     with...

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Categories: unwound, 10th grade, caregiving, daughter, devotion, father, games,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Mercy Songs
Disparage not our hearts-- they are God-loved, God-found
This will get mystical -- allow me to propound
Just think-- wherever we pray can be holy ground

Contemplation of His Love always will astound
The Divine Physician can heal us...

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Categories: unwound, clothes, heart, heartbroken, imagery, jesus, song, sound,
Form: Monorhyme
The Fireflies Danced
In the late of autumn you noticed me and I trusted for what seemed to be the first time.
And the night found us talking alone, the stars surveying us, smiling on our innocence as
the evening's...

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Categories: unwound, introspectionme, spring, winter, summer, autumn, change, me,
Form: I do not know?
Addicted
I was looking around
Then suddenly
The feelings I once had for you
Were again found
I realized I was standing
On shaky ground
All was spinning
Control was coming unwound
Straining to make a sound
No words would form
Struggling to make sense of...

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Categories: unwound, devotion, faith, happiness, hope, lost love, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Fun In the Sun
Flesh on show and sun tan lotion
bodies laid on towels or sun lounges 
By the ocean
Salty air wind blown hair
Music streaming from the near by fair
Baby screaming nappies full
Cool guys looking for babes on the...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unwound, abuse, beach, fun, funny, holiday, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse
The One Thing I Will Always Own, But Then I Don'T
It’s confusing
All of the voices in my head
It’s like I don’t know who I am anymore
I’m not me
And I’m defiantly not the people in here
I’ve disappeared
Yet… I haven’t
because every day I look through 
someone else’s...

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Categories: unwound, body, death, first love, girl, lost, memory,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things