List: Knapsack

• 'Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty'

  As artists palette, paints, prepare
  so poets insight channel, air: -
  

  44 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 2 12:25 PM 2007. In Writing, Poetics, Sonnet. Reward
• A Turn of Phrase

  A turn of phrase, sublime or simple,
  can beautify an ugly pimple

  11 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 21 9:43 PM 2007. In Other. Reward
• Adrenaline Shock

  As excitement trips synaptic traps, taps inner ocean tide Deep within the spirit calling to the hidden beast inside, Rising quicker, quicke

  15 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 30 11:22 PM. In Other, Acrostic, Sonnet. Reward
• After the Funeral

  After the funeral the Past departed with the last forced mourners, whose facial expressions with their tremolo of tics,

  84 lines, 28 comments, on Mar 20 9:29 AM 2005. In Society, Life, Time
• An Alliterative Amorous Answer

  Adored and angelic Amelia. Accept an ardent and artless amourist’s affections, alleviate an anguished admirer’s alarms, answer an amorous

  125 lines, 33 comments, on Mar 20 4:50 PM 2005. In Spiritual, Humor, Hope
• Atlantis

  Dripping dolphin guides
  to subterranean trench
  where Atlantis hides

  10 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 16 5:59 PM 2007. In Haiku, Other
• Author's Page Mottoes

  17 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 11 12:37 AM 2007. In Society, Thoughts, Spiritual. Reward
• Ballooning

  Balloon hope races to true light all clouds disperse, all fears take flight, on future fair pace places dreams on past despair trace fades,

  8 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 4 4:02 AM. In Hope, Acrostic. Reward
• Bell's Palsy Penned Strokes on Stroke Penned - Optimistic In...Sight

  Paralysis as passing stage
  perceived though prejudicial

  77 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 5 3:51 AM 2007. In Hope, Sonnet. Reward
• Beyond Beyond

  Two thralling eyes, unlatched attractive and unmatched
  reveal, no strings attached, suggest search to respond
  in many ways beyond eterni

  10 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 19 6:57 AM. In Nature. Reward
• Bottled Message

  From shore to shore I brave wild waves
  with winds unsure 'bove mermaid cave,
  in shine or pour with message grave

  100 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 9 3:38 PM. In Humor, Love
• Break Break Break - Parody Alfred Tennyson - Break Break Break

  Break, break, break, of my bones both left and right, and I would that my tongue could butter rye bread, my teeth could bite !

  26 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 28 7:30 AM 2007. In Parody, Humor, Other. Reward
• Brown Study from the Lowlands

  embracing the "oh dear, hear three in a row !"

  19 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 1 6:41 AM. In Parody, Humor, Other
• Can colour claim to read between the lines ?

  If from truth's spectrum something's infra re[a]d,
  Much ultra may be drawn for years ahead ...

  32 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 13 1:11 PM 2007. In Nature, Other, Acrostic, Sonnet
• Chess

  Bishops, Kings and Queens unite upon a squared board black and white, surround themselves with castles find
  four pairs of pawns to sit beh

  17 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 25 9:48 AM. In Other. Reward
• Depression's Impressions

  Response half-hearted raised its head then turned the other cheek upon some rumpled pillow bed, forgetting how to speak.
  

  52 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 12 3:30 PM. In Sad, Society. Reward
• Differences and Definitions English & French

  DIFFERENCES
  AND DEFINITIONS

  131 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 15 9:35 AM 2005. In Humor
• Dilemma

  16 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 16 4:26 AM 2007. In Other, Love
• Diplomacy… or Credibility Gap

  Clap Clap-Trap Trap

  41 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 21 2:42 PM 2005. In Society, Humor, Contemporary
• Doubt

  To doubt too often deeper doubts succeed,
  upon itself it’s self perversely feeds,
  sad skeins, dyed grey or black, back interbreed,

  14 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 11 9:26 AM. In Society, Sad. Reward
• Dream Matcher’s Response to Dreamcatcher’s Dream Hatcher

  Dreams hyphonate what still may come with what stays still, forever dumb, retain the reins of destiny
  so reign’s refrain’s sustained, stay

  84 lines, 15 comments, on Apr 6 11:57 AM. In Other. Reward
• Eggs - Trees' Sons' Song Sans Treason - Parody Joyce KILMER - Trees

  I think that I could never beg for peg leg oblong as an egg. though eggs on toast all must adore except, when buttered, fall to floor.
  

  37 lines, 28 comments, on Aug 8 8:55 PM 2007. In Parody, Humor, Other. Reward
• Eternal Golden Braid - Escher, Gödel, Bach

  Escher, Gödel, Bach, together make mind's music tempo weather form to storm blocks, light as feather turn constraints most, far less clever

  116 lines, 18 comments, on Apr 6 8:14 AM. In Other. Reward
• Fractal Reflections

  HE triptoed to and fro between her energy's go glow and fractal reflections of her parallel factual reality relays in fact, fiction and fan

  19 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 6 12:52 AM 2007. In Vers Libres, Spiritual, Thoughts, Other. Reward
• From the Winter of our Discontent

  Though silent snowflakes hush both man and mouse,
  white mantle donned by garden, path and house,

  41 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 26 1:46 AM 2007. In Hope, Life. Reward
• Gilgamesh - Variations on a Theme

  Apart they stand, their handiwork behold
  mercilessly, as sun, moon, stars are rolled
  around their orbits, teach each to obey

  47 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 9 3:58 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Society. Reward
• Haiku - A-Musing

  Mooning on spooning bed tosses and turns, returns
  ballooning dream tuning

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 21 6:23 AM. In Haiku, Other. Reward
• Haiku - Aureate

  A gentle aura
  corresponds to warmth within

  6 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 21 6:42 AM. In haiku, Spiritual. Reward
• Haiku - Childsplay

  Dreams wing, wring ring doubts,
  whence fate dates coincidence,
  sense swings, roundabouts

  6 lines, 5 comments, on May 16 5:52 AM. In Thoughts, Haiku. Reward
• Haiku - Dedication

  Imagination
  opens doors to make room for
  communication

  17 lines, 8 comments, on May 11 4:14 PM. In Thoughts, Haiku. Reward
• Haiku - Zephyr

  bleak breeze bites betimes
  sorrows seek solace [sp]reading
  sweet scented ku rhymes

  3 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 8 8:12 PM. In Haiku, Other. Reward
• Halloween

  Witches weaving through the air, whistle down from everywhere.

  39 lines, 14 comments, on Jul 10 10:53 AM 2007. In Other, Humor. Reward
• Happy he who like Ulysses - Parody Joachim du Bellay – Heureux qui comme Ulysse

  Happy he who like Ulysses has returned successful from his travels, or like he who sought the Golden Fleece, to rest well earned

  62 lines, on Feb 3 10:38 AM 2007. In Translation, Parody, Other, Humor, Sonnet, French
• Incandescence

  Self-feeding, the fire
  desires its own warmth, and warms
  to its own desire

  5 lines, 17 comments, on Jun 30 1:57 PM 2007. In Haiku, Nature
• Inertia

  Inertia's apathetic curtain closes
  And draws dark blinds behind mind which imploses
  

  14 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 22 11:47 PM. In Other, Acrostic, Sonnet. Reward
• Of Mice and Maids - Beware Batty Background :)

  Mice and maids cry rats
  

  16 lines, 17 comments, on Jul 26 5:48 AM 2007. In Humor, Haiku. Reward
• Mise au Point

  Sense how initial trains of thought
  may be derailed from one-track aim

  36 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 22 6:20 PM 2007. In Other
• Musical Anagram Riddle

  I doat on ready smile, fair grace, solar, timeless, doubts does chase. Real miracle, fate’s song I lace, ‘Tis door adored, might fancy sola

  55 lines, 27 comments, on Feb 4 1:26 PM 2007. In Palimpsest, Other, Acrostic, Sonnet. Reward
• Mystery's Mirror Rhyme

  Mirror thus connects, collects and self respects, perpetually perfects externals it bedecks with inner meanings' might
  

  37 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 18 5:52 PM 2007. In Other. Reward
• On AP Poets and Poetry

  Seeking beyond pretentious wannabe

  28 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 18 8:35 AM 2007. In Society, Writing. Reward
• On Certitudes and Confusion

  Between light dreams and darkness dread, between the calls of heart and head, what now seems natural, in season, appeared beforehand to bli

  33 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 6 5:07 PM. In Thoughts
• One wanders on and wonders much

  Lonely, at dawn, one wanders from the room. Experience seeds prudence. What before may lie that may belie dark gloom, or answer search to c

  16 lines, 10 comments, on May 15 2:11 AM. In Pain, Society, Sonnet. Reward
• Pain

  Pain rained, exploded, insane fire-bright ball sheered synapses, somehow knew to spring the nerves’ defences too. The system, unprepared,

  11 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 20 2:13 PM 2007. In Other
• Peace

  With Nature, one, are all things here: sky, sea and land in silence stand. Such timelessness. The seconds near, float fanlike, linked by me

  21 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 17 12:27 PM. In Other, Writing, Poetics. Reward
• Perjury

  16 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 9 6:00 PM 2007. In Polyacrostic, Ethics, Society
• Polyacrostic Palimpsest - Manuscript

  My muse in rhyme here's summoned to adorn,
  
  Answering prayer deep, heart loud and clear

  83 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 5 7:37 AM 2007. In Humor, Other, Polyacrostic Palimpsest
• Polychrome Flight

  Monochrome springboard translates dormant floorboard into polychrome flight of dreams as night cocoons without discord an almost umbilical

  20 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 28 8:17 AM 2007. In Other
• Pride Aside on Love

  Innocence and pride make two as pride and love, - forget-me-not from fever cools as through and through
  fond memories few keep, sots blot

  9 lines, on Jul 31 2:20 PM 2007. In Other
• Research on Cinderella - after Shel Silverstein In search of Cinderella

  I'd seek the perfect ankle,from dawn 'til dusk I'd stretch my hand to virgin, husk, not you ! perceptions change, oh dear, they do ! perfec

  26 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 12 4:34 AM. In Hope, Parody, Other. Reward
• Riddle my Riddle Dear Watson

  My first of four now hard, now soft appears, a part of whole which then may move to tears, unmoved before, in mist it disappears, descent r

  30 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 17 7:34 PM. In Humor, Other, Nature, Acrostic. Reward
• Room 303

  Room 303 am I, all white, - no blue
  or scarlet trappings velvet, rich in hue
  here overprint the senses to foreclose

  16 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 15 11:55 AM. In Other
• Rotas

  
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  32 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 6 3:10 PM 2007. In Polyacrostic, Other, Thoughts
• See Sea Change - Brain Circuits Time

  Imprinted on the tablets of the brain, wave mesh of integrated circuits seems scene window holographic, time's reels gain momentum as kale

  21 lines, on Jun 7 4:46 AM. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Palimpsest
• Successive Signals

  Had we not met, or had I through disappointment's hole
  never slipped, would joyful journey now begun
  have taken place replacing splintere

  17 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 7 8:48 AM. In Other, Alliteration
• Surface Calm

  Surface calm enfolds the hidden tiger of repressed emotions sleeplessly prowling within the inner reaches
  of the mind’s cave.

  17 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 31 9:51 PM 2005. In Other, Love, Contemporary, Vers Libres
• To a Child Dancing in the Wind - Translation William Butler Yeats

  Dansez près du rivage,
  pourquoi se soucier
  du vent, des flots, ou du bruitage

  18 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 24 2:50 PM 2007. In Translation. Reward
• Tract on Attraction : Action sans Reaction, Traction sans retraction, Contract without contraction

  Be one dream or dreamer, redeemer
  explorer, explored, new found way

  91 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 2 12:38 PM 2007. In Love, Thoughts, Other
• Tree-son

  “I cannot tell a lie !
  ‘Twas I, unworthy, axed its taxed trunk brown.”

  14 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 3 1:18 PM. In Humor, History
• Upwardly Mobile Breasts

  130 lines, 61 comments, on Feb 2 8:32 PM 2007. In Love, Society, Humor, Adult
• When I was oxygenic and [s]he two hydro genes

  From chaos sprung our meeting, a marriage of convenience, the which our rhymes are sweeting so judge linked lines with lenience.
  

  104 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 12 5:12 PM 2007. In Nature, Humor, Thoughts
• Wing Swing Sing Song

  All stems from nothing, down turns up,
  gain’s drained from spill to fill life's cup.

  94 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 3 7:46 PM 2007. In Fantasy, Other
• Yarn

  A whirling wheel revolves within, revel keyed to rainbow bright, now wing weft warps, now weaves from sight, enters, leaves as senses spin.

  93 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 27 6:20 PM 2007. In Other
• Green

  Through green grows blue, new inner space,
  extends expanse advance, lends grace
  through raindrop prism, sent to [t]race

  104 lines, 6 comments, on May 2 2:19 PM. In Other. Reward
• Fountain of Dreams

  From dreams into reality reeled frames unpeel hopes filmy foam, open imagination, roam more, more than most may ever see.

  19 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 23 5:17 AM. In Hope, Life, Acrostic. Reward
• Rondo

  As tidal waves of Time mock Fame, wave goodbye to humankind, what remains might, deep in rime, deep-frozen stay 'til Change may find a race

  85 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 25 8:15 PM. In Thoughts, Other. Reward
• Fiat Lux

  Forsaking superficiality I’ll leap from sleep of forty years or more, a wilderness too often paced before.

  15 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 29 6:17 AM. In Hope, Acrostic, Sonnet. Reward
• Decimal Points

  One minute here, hearsay the next, Two minutes: paradise expects. Third minute: second thoughts await
  Fourth minute explanations late.
  

  10 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 1 7:09 AM. In Life, Time, Thoughts. Reward
• If you can keep your cheese

  If you can keep your cheese while few about you are holding onto theirs', all envy ease.

  28 lines, on Jul 28 9:46 AM 2007. In Humor, Other, Parody
• Renaissance

  Friendship dances into sight,
  An incarnation of delight,
  Leaves none who can continue to

  14 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 3 5:03 PM 2007. In Hope
• The Answer Lies ... or ... The Answer Lies ?

  Frustration's shadow fades not as moon rises,
  but open heart prepares for fair surprises,

  13 lines, on Apr 9 12:39 AM. In Hope
• Reflective Mirror - From Room of One’s Own to Shared Throne

  Reflection prompt may light idyllic fire
  Operating metamorphosis
  Or echoing life’s p[h]antomime as choir

  20 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 11 11:07 AM 2007. In Love, Spiritual, Acrostic, Sonnet
• Cause Dreams Effects

  Rippling outwards bird of Time

  6 lines, 1 comment, 1 day ago. In Thoughts, Time
• Haiku - Foothold

  Foothold firm may twist
  false pride

  2 lines, 1 comment, 1 day ago. In Haiku, Other

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