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...When at dawn I find three stones at my
Doorstep, I smile at dawn
Prayers, in haste, come to my lips
My eyes rove wantonly and behold a
Poet caressing a naked virgin.

When at dawn I find three ...
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Categories: wantonly, africa, culture, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCracks In Quiet Love

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Written: May 09, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "There is a loneliness more precious than life, there is a freedom more precious than the world." By Ru...
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Categories: wantonly, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Wind Arrived Quietly

...The wind arrived quietly, conservatively, 
meandering around my heart with soft words, 
playing with tendrils of my being with soft caresses, 
lulling my soul with gentle softness and light. 

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Categories: wantonly, anger, emotions, heart, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Upon a dark and stormy night

...Upon a dark and stormy night...

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thu...
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Categories: wantonly, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse

Escapism for the readers

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(A lone voice whispers)


Within this deep clearing, a mystical sanctuary surrounded by the long trees of Time's perpetual symphonies, we meet.



Within this clearing, sheltered from Stor...
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Categories: wantonly, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberIvans Shortcomings

...Imperfect indifferent ineffective Ivan Inglebritzen
Was wistfully, wildly, wantonly weird at work.
Not indispensable, but rather despicable, desperate and diabolical.
Cautious co-workers candidly ...
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Categories: wantonly, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberTint Of Orange

...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...
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Categories: wantonly, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism

Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds

...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...

regarding President elect 
Donald John Trump.

As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious d...
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Categories: wantonly, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAway in the Heather

...Away in the Heather 

                                    The hillside adorns

A day of bright weather 

                                     No thistles or thorns

The meadowlark's singing 
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Categories: wantonly, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInterview with Aliens

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You are creatures from outer space;
No one knows your dwelling place.
Your appearance makes us scream; 
For us a different species you seem.

You visit our Earth using UFOs;
Afraid, we tr...
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Categories: wantonly, 3rd grade, space,
Form: Rhyme

garden love

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          in mine torso's 
                limbs
         'long with mine
               robot's
                 grip
         az the tin man
              left out
       in thuh purty ...
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Categories: wantonly, extended metaphor, garden, love,
Form: Romanticism

These are the Open Arms

...By Cherbo Geeplay

You woke me up when I was dead,
teaching the night stars wantonly 
to obey the Atlantic; then slashed
my arteries in flight to Lake Piso, 
humbling its boundaries, before 
f...
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Categories: wantonly, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse

Wonderment at existence

...Wonderment at existence ™

With my scrunched 
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder 
the precise circumstances 
that any thing to be born
tracing back lineage of self 
or arbitrary individua...
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Categories: wantonly, adventure, animal, atheist, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBilocation

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Bilocation is a term that pecks at my mind's tree
Seeking to make a hole and create a nest of fables
Laying eggs of verity and hatching belief

Whether a person can be at two place...
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Categories: wantonly, allusion, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFrance II

...Let hope rely upon your Maginot
for swift retort has choked your Gallic might.
It crushed your will beneath its undertow
as diligence receded in the fight.
Your flailing forces teeter on defeat
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Categories: wantonly, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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