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Premium MemberEdgar Allan Poe

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It is the desire of the moth
for the star…..
                 -  Edgar Allan Poe

I awoke this morning
to find the powdery imprint
of wings on a window 
that must have been left 
by a mot...
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Categories: powdery, beauty, desire, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQuite a Sight

...Phoebe and her brother and sisters loved to play, like capricious wind;
And many robust children lived nearby, like green nature, an old friend.

The Clarks lived in town, like turquoise n...
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Categories: powdery, beautiful, children, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet



Premium MemberMemento on the Moon

...The Moomagatta is very heavy.
And being the strongest astronaut around,
I knew, for Earth's sake, I had to be ready.
Not a month later on the powdery surface I touched down.
The Moomagatta and me...
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Categories: powdery, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUNAFRAID OF JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY IDENTITY THIEF

...I DON'T FEAR YOU BREAKING INTO MY HOME PUTTING STICKERS ON MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES I GUESS YOU'RE STILL STALKING ME WHAT 23 YEARS YOU ARRIVED WITH THE GUNMAN WHAT A BLESSING YOU ACTUALLY CUT YOUR HAND ...
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Categories: powdery, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberThe Blue Nazarene

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“The Blue Nazarene” 

caeruleum caelum 
in nubibus
caeruleum

caeruleum caelum
in nubibus 
de hyacintho nazarene

testimonium:

white stallions, 

clouds commandin...
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Categories: powdery, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberNot Much of a Choice

...Cooper was a large and curious tiger, the bright star of a motley circus,
Always out of step with others; like erring moon, of dawn skies, citrus.

He was well fed and got lots of attentio...
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Categories: powdery, beauty, color, fun, nature,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberJust A Simple Musk-Filled Muse, Reaching For The Sun

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This was inspired by Silent One's poem,  
"Prisoner Of Poetry"  

Let me loose the trellis that holds on to my roses
weave every thorn I own around your open space 
I do not twine nor do I h...
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Categories: powdery, analogy, appreciation, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Driving Down Memory Lane

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I was drivin’ down an old, worn black-top highway, on my way to a funeral.  It was mid-Missouri, and late summer made it hotter’n the dickens outside.  I was thinkin’ there was only a couple of hou...
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Categories: powdery, friendship, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative

Premium Memberharbor snow

...I watch the harbor through the falling snow
the sky and sea form one vast, gray tableau
the sun is nothing but a weak, background glow
the scene draws me, as if hypnotically.

Five mile’s lighth...
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Categories: powdery, boat, sea, snow,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFastball-just for fun

...Blustering snowballs, Batman,
it's cold enough to blubber

blast the titanic iceberg
from its frozen handshake.

But snowballs that ain’t
formed; fine powdery dust

billowing ‘neath the core...
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Categories: powdery, birthday, humor, sick,
Form: Light Verse

Inheritance

...Her grandfather called her to their front yard,
 “Come here, my child.”
“I want to show you how to mend this net,”
he said tenderly,
his fingers weathered like the ropes he held,
gnarled and wor...
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Categories: powdery, allegory, grandfather, metaphor, my
Form: Free verse

Euphoria

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Rivers of winding winds,
their saw edged currents
chipping away at stone clouds.
Crests of powdery floss
slip over mountainous verges.
Not knowing anything about
the flexibility of gr...
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Categories: powdery, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLost Amongst The Night

..."Do not go gentle into that good night."
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Quote By Dylan Thomas

Smoky clouds float above slate skies.  
Powdery alabaster flakes of snow glide to the...
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Categories: powdery, gothic, grief, imagery, snow,
Form: Imagism

Premium Membera song for oppy

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spun …

the dust devil did
(unusually strong, that)
but instead of leaving another layer of
light-blocking powder
it cleaned the solar panels like
Windex and microfibre -
shiny … as new
th...
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Categories: powdery, analogy, science,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Son John

...My son, John, was an engaging fellow, who was barely ten years old;
And liked frogs, marbles and playing ball, in luscious, noontime gold.

My son, John, was rather a dreamer, like the laz...
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Categories: powdery, character, color, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet

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