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Premium Member Short Poems
...Candle light Incandescence overlain with grime Starry night Shared soundless echoes Sunset Filtered reality, fingerprint detail Bricks Lasting dust of labourer Pencil marks Temporari......

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Categories: overlain, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When You Wonder and Wander
...Are they the drowned out or washed away Or captured art when they design their face The uneven pavements, bricks curved with skill The scaffold on a building, that won't fall until They believe t......

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Categories: overlain, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Nocturne Op9 No1 Interpreted As the Siren's Call
...Written in response to listening to Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1 Heaven awaits me, fleetingly Captured in your sight I came alive, I am alive With a permanent vision Of a vanishing dr......

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Categories: overlain, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Ill Suited For Madcap Twenty First Century World
...Ill suited for madcap twenty first century world One garden variety generic male - the very writer of these words feels akin to an anachronism, whereby his being alive at this juncture within t......

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Categories: overlain, absence, adventure, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Voluntary Unconditional Surrender Woke
...Voluntary unconditional surrender woke..., Viz hitting yours truly, when yokel egghead doth jinx whereby ye cannot comprehend figurative wimpy vainglory, unequivocally, tectonically, smolderin......

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Categories: overlain, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Ill Suited For Madcap Twenty First Century World
...Aghast at explosive industrialization/ urbanization once sacred wild woodland whittled away overlain bumper crops comprising trappings green lighted supposedly signaling progress unwittingly ove......

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Categories: overlain, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Stephanie Dodds
...My never ending search for whatever this psychologically gout riddled rhyme stir to write (a poem) about found me figuratively staring at a theme without doubt devoid of an......

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Categories: overlain, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy
Florida Gardens -- Ten Words
...Florida gardens boast menageries most marvelous— Vermilion hibiscus nodding in the breathlike breezes Infused with night-blooming jasmine and selenicereus scents. Mockingbirds trilling like nighti......

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Categories: overlain, appreciation, garden, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Rain
...The gilded clouds turn dark before the rain And roll as blackest waves across the sky The lightning bursts and flashes like a vein Its fingered traces seem to mystify Clouds that form together ar......

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Categories: overlain, nature, rain, storm,
Form: Ottava rima
Anger a Crime 4
...Anger only emotion acts like a Coxswain In letting one to proceed to detain One’s personality in public and explain Debility of his character; and retain Idiosyncratic nature to volplane Into da......

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Categories: overlain, anger, , cute,
Form: Monorhyme
An Essay On Windows
...Closer now we inch to peek Our face pressed to the window pane Reach out? We won't, just gaze oblique A fool's attempt to ascertain A solid veil through which we see and yet through which we wil......

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Categories: overlain, fear, integrity, strength, truth,
Form: Didactic
Adolescent Path
...Faulty compass of drifting swain Freelancing on arid, desert plain Passion fires mind of careening train Burning loins long each satin sheath to stain Sculpted dunes seductive beauty do feign Smooth,......

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Categories: overlain, childhood, confusion, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Fidelity's Duplicitous Door
...Fealty's door was satin stained Durable wood pulped from reliable strain With blithe trim and decadent frills overlain Lofty mantle Love's precedence to ordain Interior with taut, strong fibers ingra......

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Categories: overlain, family
Form: Rhyme
Trimdon Grange Explosion
...TRIMDON GRANGE EXPLOSION * ( 16 FEB 1882, DURHAM, ENGLAND ) Noo March is heor and the wind she’s cowld * But the sixty nine sowls divvent feel it - strange Theor noo wheor they fee......

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Categories: overlain, death, history,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things