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Premium Member Poetry Soup
Someone’s dreams and hopes set afloat, sail across the poetry soup, someone else’s tears, loss and heartache, has just made me weep in my room. I pen a song and sing it loud, laugh with a limerick I wrote, someone out...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Winter Spring
Does the winter really turn into spring, Does it go from a white to a green sort of thing? Or, is a winter a thing of its own– A singular winter, past, off to places unknown? ...Read the rest...
Categories: philosophy, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Heart gentle, eyes mindful
I've always showered care on ungrateful trees, the ones that bloomed and the ones that withered. I watered them anyway. In this chaotic world, compassion is made slavery, chained with entitlement and false lovebites, yet...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, deep, encouraging, giving, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wonders of Wandering
Wandering wonders I see paths break asunder My wonder wanders...Read the rest...
Categories: conflict, hope, peace, poems,
Form: Haiku
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered under the...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative



Whispers of the Quill
With my solution upon my parchment bright I conjure worlds where imagination takes flight The ink flows free, a wondrous, winding stream As letters spin forth, fabricating words unseen A tapestry of meaning, rich and vibrant, is gleaned The poet's...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
A dweller in waste places, a void in foggy darkness, the unseen shadow that trails us. A doom that curses benign plants. A tenacious panting wolf feeding off the sorrows of the soil. She's the...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, anger, angst, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
ACCIDENTAL WRITER
I wanted to be everything in my life but not a writer I wanted to scream shout and fight for everything but my timid self couldn't be a fighter, And now  It feels like writing has become an...Read the rest...
Categories: chicago, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
IN A WORLD
"In a world full of deaf listeners an artist sings the song of his heart In the hope that someday someone will embrace his art, In a world full of trendy liars, An old painting is still waiting...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, beautiful, deep, lonely, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
RUSTING
Fire is a spirit, crackling vibrations, sirring catalyst; force and energy of the midday sun. I raced over mountains, caressed hairs of strong forests and rolled over balling rivers. But this dour fluorescence Is a used canister rusting to...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, change, death, encouraging, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cornish poem We Cornish are a Nation
Cornwall is almost an island, Thanks to the river Tamar and the sea, Its indigenous inhabitants are us Cornish and We Cornish are a nation - and will always be. Kernow (Cornwall) boasts its own: ...Read the rest...
Categories: encouraging, england, hope, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Did I Become A Poet?
Quote By Poet: "I like to bring my imagination out in writing so you can bring your imagination out in reading." Books call my name, the bookstores are not to blame. Writing books and poems give me joy, better...Read the rest...
Categories: blue, books, poems, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why did I become a poet?
Every man woman and child is a poet in their own right. The gems a child comes out with can be a delight. The words uttered by a father when he holds his first child, Will turn a...Read the rest...
Categories: poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet's Note
Giving voice to my dream, my hope, my belief, Meant silencing doubts who clung like murky mist, Listening to the light, which banished my grief. Joy stirred my soul with hope I just couldn’t resist, Causing me to kiss...Read the rest...
Categories: muse, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Smokey Filled Speak Easy
In the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar, Were jazz and jive spill from ajar, We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars, And speak in verses, raw and without pause. The city breathes, a living, pulsing beat, Its heart...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, 6th grade, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

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