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Yellow construction paper torn Into long ovular petals
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Time has waned its fouling purge
And winds have slowed since treachery
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Grayed by unrelenting time
And youthful structure scarred by many hateful water's purgings
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Papa said "Every old barn needs some paint." / ButI look beneath the lovely aging surface that only God gave you / And remember fumbling fi
11 lines, 7 comments,
on Apr 27 10:46 PM 2007. In Love
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the
intensity
feeling pressure rumble
15 lines, 1 comment,
on Apr 28 1:39 PM 2007
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10 words only. . . describe a favorite fruit without mentioning it's name
5 lines, 11 comments,
on Apr 30 7:58 AM 2007. In Thoughts
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Elizabeth's head-- / / Masterfully manipulated descendant of earth's pristine dust, / Flame-forged and forever flawed by depravity's filth
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Let me but taste that hallowed place / Where streams run rapidly / In pursuit of deeper drink / And let rounded, twin pools of intellect an
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The soft of silk surges my soul at each imagined kiss, stolen.
6 lines, 15 comments,
on Jun 1 11:24 PM 2007. In Love, Personal
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storm-torn bark falls off / like leprous limbs' numb shedding / exposing raw flesh
4 lines, 4 comments,
on Apr 28 5:22 PM 2007. In Nature, Pain
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He lifts me up-- / Alive, uncertain and afraid. / Undergirding me with patient breezes / Wafting gently, waving softly / Teaching me to flu
12 lines, 12 comments,
on Jun 11 7:31 PM 2007
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Many-leaved vigilante / wrapping / warping / wrenching / volitile heart of flesh
5 lines, 11 comments,
on Jun 22 10:58 PM 2007
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Appalachian mountains-- / speckled with cyan robin eggs / of inter-nesting cousins /
6 lines, 9 comments,
on Jun 23 5:10 PM 2007
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Limbs dripping / with sweetest fruit / In orchard / not my own
7 lines, 10 comments,
on Jun 23 9:39 PM 2007
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Shadowed towers interspersed / In broken canopy / Leave space for hope / That moon would marry grasses / Splashing passion's / fervent, sem
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Sea of faces / multi-colored depths / with crests / of kaleidoscope cultures
6 lines, 7 comments,
on Jun 26 2:25 PM 2007
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Deep in the swelling dark of Appalachian cavern / dwells one,stark and horrid / They say he lures unsuspecting lovers-- / past the realm wh
23 lines, 5 comments,
on Jun 29 6:41 PM 2007
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Love is waking / Freshly wafting / Blowing seed of flower promised / Blade is chopping / Mocking, chiding / Leaving only weed of doubting /
8 lines, 6 comments,
on Jul 4 9:31 PM 2007
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Linen leisures / Taffeta treasures / and sequined silks / Worn in haughty / circimstance / Turning heads-- / snickering / at iron burns / a
13 lines, 9 comments,
on Jul 5 1:43 AM 2007
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Fond friends might embrace; / but I-- / remain aloof. / For even faintest brush of flesh / dissolves resistance, / leaving me-- / willing h
13 lines, 15 comments,
on Jul 5 12:10 PM 2007
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Inebriated breath / creeps under weeping covers / with sweetheart / --long forsaken-- / whispering aroused affection / . . . too late
6 lines, 3 comments,
on Jul 10 5:23 PM 2007
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Rocking chair / void of soothing / Teddy lies / never reached for / Joy / --sleeps not in cradle
11 lines, 5 comments,
on Jul 10 8:07 PM 2007
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her song / of weeping moon forlorn / --rests in starlit treetops10 / his serenade / by sunlight, heated, / --blazes there to meet / but moo
13 lines, 20 comments,
on Jul 10 9:09 PM 2007
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In blackened pit where flame is void of light / every molecule screams and breath is short / Folly marks the forhead / and thirst announces
15 lines, 8 comments,
on Jul 12 7:49 PM 2007
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flitting little dragonfly / flirts with raspberry dewdrops / that bathe the clover fruit-- / her loveliness engulfs them / as rainbow flowers sky /
8 lines, 2 comments,
on Jul 14 1:53 AM 2007
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ribbons from your fingers / encircle me with silken soft / first caressing length / then crossing back in strings / of sultry stay / enrapt
12 lines, 5 comments,
on Jul 15 7:28 PM 2007
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fresh / as firefly's / brightening bud / love / lifts darkened / shrouded hood /
9 lines, 7 comments,
on Jul 15 8:15 PM 2007
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by day / wind tossled youthful hair / and sang lively song / beneath St John's towering cathedrals / by night / beach was bed / and Amhurst
13 lines, 7 comments,
on Jul 15 11:23 PM 2007
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Like blaze of raging bonfire / Flared high against my stacks, / And piqued inexperience, / Rendering me without shield, / Was love when fir
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helium innocense / floats. . . / heavenward / marred / helium horror / rains... / destroying children /
10 lines, 5 comments,
on Jul 1 8:54 PM 2007
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broth of lofty promises / ladeled into pefect crystal bowls / but wanting season / marinated cuts of pleasure / in colorless au jus / dress
14 lines, 4 comments,
on Jul 17 9:46 AM 2007
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cotton / puffed on azure canvas / hyacinth hills / adorned with stately greens / child's gleam / bright-- / amid ambered sorrow / &nb
13 lines, 3 comments,
on Jul 19 12:01 AM 2007
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Night's gnarled fingers / creep beneath covers / strangling ease / as echoed hideous groans / rattle creaking planks / of cellar door / for
18 lines, 3 comments,
on Jul 21 7:29 PM 2007
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A Terza Rima is a poem with an eleven syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme / of aba, bcb, cdc, dd. / For even more of a challen
14 lines, 2 comments,
on Jul 24 11:47 PM 2007
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Passion's / playful sands / passed through / narrow curve / to hollow / building there / mound of awaited / gladness / with grains / of fli
28 lines, 7 comments,
on Jul 30 12:06 AM 2007
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brilliant shafts of sunlight
hidden behind once-blackened thunderheads
23 lines, 24 comments,
on Aug 1 8:04 PM 2007
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She splashes spray upon my toes
tickling them in coy flirtation
43 lines, 28 comments,
on Aug 10 9:28 PM 2007
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a vast blue chasm
is splashed between two sky pillows
32 lines, 4 comments,
on Aug 20 4:58 PM 2007
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turmoil spews it's howling winds
and trouble spits it's fury
15 lines, 5 comments,
on Sep 9 8:27 PM 2007
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alliteration/internal rhyming challenge
52 lines, 66 comments,
on Aug 29 7:02 PM 2007
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Beulah Adair was a church goin' woman
who invited us over after long Sunday sermon
78 lines, 9 comments,
on Sep 18 11:19 PM 2007
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When I stand atop the rock
of volcano's cooled smoothness
28 lines, 3 comments,
on Sep 10 5:29 PM 2007
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Beneath the treetops interlocking
stands the house
30 lines, 6 comments,
on Oct 1 9:51 PM 2007
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When I was frail, and you had want of fruit
We grew, in twain, in meadow green alongside playful fawns
25 lines, 8 comments,
on Aug 23 10:42 PM 2007
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Come to me
down winding way
106 lines, 10 comments,
on Aug 29 7:33 PM 2007
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Angelo's pristine forefinger
extends as brush
16 lines, 3 comments,
on Sep 1 12:53 AM 2007
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He pressed his lips
with linen cloth
10 lines, 10 comments,
on Sep 2 9:18 PM 2007
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Sleekest sword as soul's extension
needs not pretention's boastful taunt,
15 lines, 4 comments,
on Sep 17 6:04 PM 2007
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When wicked words roll
from off forked pen
21 lines, 10 comments,
on Sep 29 11:30 PM 2007
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Will the wet of heaven,
spilled,
15 lines, 4 comments,
on Oct 7 9:56 PM 2007
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Trickling, swift,
from sweetest lips of Source
23 lines, 16 comments,
on Oct 8 9:50 AM 2007
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What is that precious essence
perfectly spilled from wells of poetry’s
41 lines, 18 comments,
on Dec 11 8:41 PM 2007
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Dark extends
his creeping chill
17 lines, 3 comments,
on Jan 9 9:21 PM
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Tightest grip
holding...
22 lines, 6 comments,
on Jan 10 7:30 PM
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Tiny frame revolts
at persistent, deft escape
18 lines, 8 comments,
on Jan 18 11:16 PM
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Will I live dreams,
traversing
21 lines, 11 comments,
on Mar 4 7:12 PM
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What noise? What sound
of heaven’s swift articulation
40 lines, 12 comments,
on Mar 8 11:57 PM
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Music’s
decrescendo tumbles
33 lines, 19 comments,
on Feb 13 6:58 PM
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Silhouette against
sterile, porcelain squares--
6 lines, 6 comments,
on Feb 13 7:07 PM
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Mantle
of perfect
18 lines, 5 comments,
on Feb 16 10:27 PM
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Fallen rose--
in air
9 lines, 6 comments,
on Feb 19 5:01 AM
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Whirling
on the frozen dark
10 lines, 10 comments,
on Mar 28 7:31 PM
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A song drifts gently through the midnight wood overtop the swaying trees.
Its fingered mist creeps down to beckon me with soft, repeated,
24 lines, 1 comment,
on Apr 2 9:29 PM
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How many petals must I pluck
one by languid one
24 lines, 6 comments,
on Jan 18 8:54 PM
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psalmist strumming,
singing perfection imperfectly
21 lines, 4 comments,
on Feb 8 10:48 PM
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When the moon spreads her lace
across the African sky’s vast darkness
34 lines, 16 comments,
on Apr 5 11:12 AM
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Shattered abruptly
While yet warm from potter’s kiln--
36 lines, 2 comments,
on Aug 8 3:01 AM 2007
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"."
49 lines, 7 comments,
on Apr 8 8:31 PM
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Oh, let me fly on sparrow wings,
not as eagle who soars to heaven’s heights
32 lines, 3 comments,
on May 1 12:38 PM
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Coming from the edge
of crowded, winter wood
35 lines, 28 comments,
on Jan 29 1:38 PM
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When forgiveness is buried
by dirt, shoveled over
13 lines, 8 comments,
on May 12 9:56 PM
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"."
15 lines, 7 comments,
on May 14 1:02 AM
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Upon the reed of Somalia’s horn
a call sounds out and does not quiet
48 lines, 11 comments,
on May 25 3:30 PM
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One blonde curl
ziplocked, tucked
20 lines, 7 comments,
on Jul 7 11:04 PM
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Long sleep of waters
--altered--
12 lines, 13 comments,
on Jul 7 11:54 PM
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Came across the small pouch today
where you tuck away your spare change.
68 lines, 17 comments,
on Jul 21 12:25 PM
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He came to me in wanton field at dusk
When I laid down in drying grasses, nose to earth,
64 lines, 4 comments,
on Aug 2 11:28 PM
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I am slowly spoken, rocky whisper,
evolving gift
by kaibab
95 lines, 9 comments,
on Aug 23 2:29 PM
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Though restless sun
will never reach her trembling pinnacle
45 lines, 23 comments,
on Aug 31 1:05 AM
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