WORDS OF LOVE
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An etymologist…(from an article I happened to see)
is a person who studies words…their origin and their history.
This particular article…(I am happy relate)
mentioned in the English language t...
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Categories:
subtleties, love,
Form: Rhyme
Juxtapositions of Soul
...Sponsor : Regina Macintosh
submission : 2/7/25
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embedded in avatar’s
sequential chromosomes
novel_sprite_ageless___BIRTHED
Soul protected simul...
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Categories:
subtleties, allusion, change, character, deep,
Form: Epic
The Poet
...To take a thought and shape a poem
Takes patience, and a clue –
The patience for the diligence
Required of a muse
The clue for clever subtleties
Engaging poets use
To form connections yet un...
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Categories:
subtleties, poets,
Form: Rhyme
I Don't Understand
...So you say and do things I don't get
I don't understand
You treat me in ways I'll never forget
I don't understand
Then other days I cant read you
I don't understand
Amazingly I see straig...
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Categories:
subtleties, bible, conflict, crush, emotions,
Form: Monorhyme
Impasse
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they say actions speak louder than innuendos
so true and when you speak in riddles
know that your subtleties are lost on me
i'm left not knowing how to feel
so if my responses seem anything...
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Categories:
subtleties, confusion, truth, words,
Form: Free verse
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 3
...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about speech, wine, Paradise, poets, poetry, words and grief.
To hear my rose-bestrewing speech,
first place the flagon before me!
—Mirza Ghalib,...
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Categories:
subtleties, moon, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise like a poem
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I sat by a boulder, then an image grew
A goddess with a pen hovered over the stone
She said I'm a muse, with a mission for you
To write a song titled "sunrise like a poem."
I said "nothing rh...
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Categories:
subtleties, art, creation, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
I open the jar of poems like a bottle of whiskey on a long night
...I open the jar of poems like a bottle of whiskey on a long night,
where the poet's whispers are raw and direct, a course of love in four acts,
obsessions and (un)blamable loves writhe like cigarett...
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Categories:
subtleties, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Murphy's Law: REVISED UPDATE
...*NOTE subtleties emphasized in their articulate closures contain a quantum message.
I think we're in trouble mate
why, what's wrong
I saw the pilot reading a manual
was it how to land a plane...
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Categories:
subtleties, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Wandering of a Dead Man
...The Wandering of a Dead Man
I move slowly, like a lost soul, a walking dead,
My vision, foreign, no longer belongs to me,
It is merely that of a human animal, an unwitting heir
Of Greek culture, ...
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Categories:
subtleties, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Choosing a Ballad for the Karaoke Contest
...I choose to sing
a gentle song
in a soft ballad
I find my time and place.
A gentle song
in peace and love
I find my time and place
on a makeshift stage.
In peace and love
in subtleties o...
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Categories:
subtleties, inspirational, music, song,
Form: Pantoum
Snaffle Rein -Destra and Sinistra
...As one might want it to be
might two find it to be
of which in collaboration
I love you for your
dedication
get me right and I'm yours
Keep it real and I'll endure
we gotta a love thing You ...
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Categories:
subtleties, chocolate, engagement, fashion, guitar,
Form: Bio
Charlotte
...Charlotte
You were smiling at me
As you were looking right
Through him
Or were you
Looking right through me
As you were smiling at him?
False subtleties
From dew to dust
From dawn to du...
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Categories:
subtleties, analogy, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Life's Highway
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Speeding along life's highway
With the scenery flashing by
Must stop and smell the roses
There's more than meets the eye
We miss the tiny intricacies
Subtleties that mean so much
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Categories:
subtleties, life,
Form: Rhyme
Redamancy
...it possesses me
white tangling leaves beg a stay
cool springs wake in your favor
nature has its ways
swayed subtleties magnify
white willow awards patience...
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Categories:
subtleties, beautiful, love,
Form: Sedoka
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