List: MY FAVORITE POEMS TO READ (other authors)

• It always ends

  I lift your form to my lips, let your fires
  roll down my throat.

  by tomisb 78 lines, 52 comments, on Dec 18 5:42 PM 2005. In Beat, Abuse, Love
• Love's Fresh Effect

  Your affection is noticed
  br

  by kaibab 32 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 28 10:11 AM 2006. In Love, Nature
• painting by numbers

  by Yvette Champ 48 lines, 32 comments, on May 4 5:55 AM 2007. In grief, love, pain
• Breath & Touch

  I am not playing. / It would certainly / be easier if I was. / * * * * / You write poetry in the air / fold it into a gale. / I stand st

  by tomisb 29 lines, 22 comments, on Jun 15 6:09 PM 2007. In Life, Spiritual, Magical, Joy
• In Hope

  In hope I watched, dawn opened her hand / pale blue touched by rosined fingers; / across golden hues to blushing skies, / where shimmering

  by Peteskid 24 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 30 10:47 AM 2007. In La'Tuin
• Caught on a feather of light

  You felt the air leave your lungs, / tangle in my hair, fall on my lips. / Your hands flew to my face / pulled me, till we were forehead to

  by tomisb 23 lines, 39 comments, on Jul 5 10:56 AM 2007. In Gentle, Spiritual, Sensual, Magical, Joy
• Getting To Know You ...

  It is supposed to take / a thousand years. I knew / you the first moment you called / my name. Magic held / eternity as fingers described y

  by tomisb 30 lines, 37 comments, on Jul 7 3:47 PM 2007. In Sensual, Love, Spiritual, Joy, Magical
• Doctor's Visit

  Can't remember much, / think I wanted it / to be that way. / Shhh... / I clasped clammy hands / to the cuts on my elbows. / Couldn't sit still, / the seats / were not seats

  by alexandrathegreat 59 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 8 11:41 PM 2007. In Angst, Sad, Thoughts, Personal, Pain
• Heliotropism

  by Lyrical Soul 23 lines, 44 comments, on Aug 14 9:32 PM 2007. In Love
• CheckersRoulette

  Fingerprints lingered upon the sands of yesterday;
  cradling the infant, a harbored moon and languid trench,

  by C- 25 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 14 9:45 PM 2007
• Converse

  There was a snore tucked between the ribbon of my spine; it was light green, contrasting with my shirt that grew a forest. I could feel the dye bleeding through like a botched attempt at suicide. All the clothes that hung on

  by C- 10 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 19 3:23 PM 2007
• Narcissistic Dream: I Love Her, She's Just Like Me

  by Luna Tique Fringe 31 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 22 10:35 PM 2007. In Adult
• Maturity

  Every moment divides between paths.
  There is no standing still.

  by tomisb 33 lines, 26 comments, on Aug 23 8:32 AM 2007. In Love, Life, Growing Up
• It's Not All Black and White

  She says it's not all black and white..
  Its a little bit of life

  by Asdzaa Nadleehe 61 lines, 30 comments, on Aug 28 11:33 AM 2007. In Lyrics, Life, Personal
• Set Them Free

  by Random Thoughts 12 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 29 4:48 AM 2007
• It is only a matter of time

  Everyone said it was abandonment.

  by tomisb 17 lines, 21 comments, on Sep 2 6:57 PM 2007. In Love, Life, Happy/Sad
• amphetamines

  these acts prove that
  being awake is not synonymous with
  being alive

  by hope4revolution 47 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 27 12:07 PM 2007. In contemporary, other, personal, thoughts, pensive
• Vision

  Sweat drips from my ambition
  I can't believe this is where I live

  by Creatress 22 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 15 6:33 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Personal, Society
• Rearview Mirror Revelations ~ Prt. 1. .

  And she comes into this world, / thinking she has fractured your well being.. / She ain't shyt. / Un-up, on this. / And you exhale, within a grin of course, / wondering why she doesn't do the world a favor and ~

  by Whenitefallz 41 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 14 12:53 PM 2007. In Dark, Life, Angst, Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Other. .
• There She Lay’s The Art of Noise

  There She Lay’s The Art Of Noise / By Julia L. Clark / There she lay’s, beautiful, angelic and the art to my profound soul. / She lay there

  by theredcatjazzoflove 69 lines, 35 comments, on Feb 4 12:05 AM 2008. In Art, Love, Lyrics, Nature, Other, Thoughts, My own style, Art inspired
• The Cunning Linguist

  by Balldinger 10 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 25 7:05 PM 2007. In Adult, other, same, different, similar
• view from a window

  I try to stand / Stay / present to this moment / A forest before me / hundreds of trees / then a leaf / one leaf / on a tree / Sunlight pai

  by astralshepherd 30 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 26 12:01 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Cancer, Fear, Pain, Sorrow
• abyss

  by astralshepherd 122 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 1 5:14 PM 2007. In Personal, Pain, Adult, My life
• White Chaos

  by alexandrathegreat 67 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 8 10:38 PM 2007. In Personal, Angst, Life, Thoughts, Adult
• You ask the Poet about Passion

  by NurseChilly 22 lines, 35 comments, on Aug 10 5:40 AM 2007. In Love
• on waking without you

  by Lyrical Soul 17 lines, 31 comments, on Aug 10 11:47 AM 2007. In Love
• vignettes in frangipani

  by Nicolette 47 lines, 48 comments, on Aug 19 12:46 PM 2007. In Life
• more than one-day-pretty

  by Nicolette 25 lines, 51 comments, on Aug 22 6:31 PM 2007. In flowers, morning glory
• you would

  a breath
  cut in two,

  by Mr E 30 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 27 7:36 PM 2007
• Cafe Society

  by Luna Tique Fringe 43 lines, 49 comments, on Sep 6 9:16 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Life, Love
• white noise unforgotten

  by EvilKate 93 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 3 4:19 AM 2007. In Life, Thoughts, Adult, Dark, Spiritual
• A Silent Séance of Twirling Circles

  by Balldinger 33 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 24 3:18 PM 2007
• origami

  by Nicolette 28 lines, 54 comments, on Aug 26 1:23 PM 2007. In Sensual
• A Landscape Look - Gold

  In summer’s sweater, she arrives
  a clutch of blossoms and bugs

  by CarolDesjarlais 30 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 8 8:25 AM 2007
• just for you ...

  by Yvette Champ 47 lines, 22 comments, on Sep 1 5:35 PM 2007. In personal
• Don't Take The Moon

  not recognizable / an expression with the / atmosphere about my eyes / like those who / survive trauma / i lay upon a bed of leaves / watching emeralds / in the first light / coconuts in testicular arra

  by Grunts Girl 42 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 25 3:07 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts
• Intermission

  there is no music
  to carry

  by Grunts Girl 59 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 3 10:29 AM 2007. In Thoughts
• How To Read, Or Not Read, This Poet

  Grab angst by its crinkled throat and take it in,
  dissolve it, chew on its bones

  by CarolDesjarlais 43 lines, 30 comments, on Sep 6 7:20 PM 2007. In Society
• Visible Evidence

  by Luna Tique Fringe 31 lines, 14 comments, on Sep 9 1:09 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Adult
• Ideal

  Men envy the cigarette

  by Danna Hobart 39 lines, 88 comments, on Nov 6 3:14 AM 2006. In Society, Angst
• Absolute Zero

  slipping from my room

  by Grunts Girl 77 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 4 12:37 AM 2007. In Thoughts
• Nude

  by tara wilson 56 lines, 15 comments, on Sep 12 12:44 AM 2007. In Adult, Sensual
• Lucy Floats in the Aether: Solo Mio

  by Grey 21 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 17 11:58 PM 2007. In Lucy
• The Shaping of Me

  forcing the free flow again
  from wounds still fresh

  by Auburn Sunrise 45 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 20 11:40 PM 2007. In Pain, Personal, Thoughts, Weird, Dark, Angst
• Bittersweet Sundays

  by Lyrical Soul 26 lines, 32 comments, on Aug 13 8:13 PM 2006. In Love
• Demons Inside

  even with the demons howling at my door
  (yet the most dangerous ones live inside)

  by Auburn Sunrise 12 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 3 6:15 PM 2007. In Sad, Society, Thoughts, Weird, Fantasy, Dark
• It Was Like White Chocolate

  I run down the halls with a gun... Mirrors surrounding me like a fun-house.

  by xXLucid-CatalystXx 29 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 26 10:30 AM 2007. In Contest
• Matthew 7

  by Amera 19 lines, 19 comments, on Oct 5 12:14 PM 2007. In Spiritual, sonnet
• Listen to Life

  by Amera 14 lines, 29 comments, on Sep 24 8:52 AM 2007. In Love, Life, Spenserian sonnet
• Blame It On The Moon~

  by poet2angels 19 lines, 8 comments, on Oct 6 12:35 AM 2007. In love
• Leap

  by Pamela A Lamppa 30 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 10 12:51 AM 2007. In Life
• vin santo

  by Namita 41 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 11 8:56 AM 2007
• The Poet reads about Art

  for MGT
  
  52 words

  by NurseChilly 21 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 16 12:47 PM 2007. In Love, art, life, FloorBoards
• Dark Broken Chocolate

  by Balldinger 46 lines, 19 comments, on Oct 17 7:18 PM 2007. In Erotica, Dark Chocolate, Fantasy
• Ghosts of Choking Jews

  I yield palms to charcoal skies
  As though attempting to pour out

  by aslanlight 25 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 22 2:58 PM 2007. In Dark, Other, Pain, Spiritual, Thoughts
• Unaware

  incubating emotion
  percolating a notion

  by Luna Tique Fringe 21 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 29 4:18 PM 2007
• to eyewitness your trinity

  Oh my love
  I frequently halt me while I am on my way to pilgrimage

  by PrabhuDayal Khattar 12 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 15 8:33 PM 2007. In Love
• L'Anniversaire

  by Grey 25 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 22 2:49 PM 2007. In Personal
• Dear Poet,

  I heard your plight where you cannot write;
  as if your muse has left you bereft

  by astralshepherd 49 lines, 51 comments, on Dec 5 4:03 PM 2005. In Hope
• The Alchemist Ascendant

  by Grey 22 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 30 2:29 PM 2007
• sognando in the sea

  Collaboration with Mary (Cat)

  by Nicolette 95 lines, 49 comments, on Oct 29 4:29 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Collaboration
• no time for change

  i came
  with bits of old snow

  by Grunts Girl 31 lines, 32 comments, on Oct 24 12:05 PM 2007. In Love, Personal, Thoughts
• Your Prayers Can't Save Me Now

  I love the way you got me lost, you must be my God.... Those memories are like purple mustard-gas, they washed me a little too clean.

  by xXLucid-CatalystXx 13 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 28 4:02 PM 2007. In Personal, Life, My own style, Depression
• Time and time again I will try.

  Time and time again I find

  by SicTransitVictoria 25 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 30 8:42 PM 2007
• Of Migrating Wing Beyond Love's Border

  Is Nature rude,
  filling these swirling autumn skies

  by kaibab 66 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 1 7:06 AM 2007
• One Last Escape

  The morning air: cider fresh, crisp as a MacIntosh. I soak in the sanguine maples, roll in the gold of oaks.

  by tomisb 29 lines, 38 comments, on Nov 1 6:45 PM 2007. In Life, Love, Nature, Magical
• the Valley of ley-lines

  by Grey 49 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 6 12:06 AM 2007. In Love
• Carpe Diadem

  The cobwebbed corner of broken thoughts, overgrown with thorny vine
  my knees retreat within my jeans hoping to be cuddled with love divine

  by 245Trioxin 38 lines, 13 comments, on Oct 11 12:21 AM 2007. In Depression, My life, Thoughts, Loneliness, Pain, Sad, My Own Style
• This is Me Letting Go

  by Auburn Sunrise 11 lines, 17 comments, on Nov 6 6:56 PM 2007. In Sad, Love, Life, Thoughts, Dark, Depressed, Abandoned
• Dirty

  by sheltered 3 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 16 8:43 PM 2007
• Erato

  She climbs through my branches,
  breaks off leaves, makes fans to ease the heat,

  by tomisb 41 lines, 67 comments, on Nov 18 12:05 PM 2007. In Sensual, Love, Spiritual, Joy, Magical
• Surrogate

  You vilify our love
  as passions wane

  by Auburn Sunrise 34 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 18 10:05 PM 2007. In Angst, Sad, Society, Thoughts, Weird, Love, Life, Vocabulary
• Imprints

  imprint
  virgin flesh

  by Auburn Sunrise 27 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 18 10:17 PM 2007. In Society, Abuse, Angst, Pain, Thoughts, Weird, Dark
• thief

  by AJ Morelli 58 lines, 21 comments, on Mar 6 9:04 PM 2007. In Adult
• The devil is . . .

  It’s in the details.
  The thin strand of hair:

  by tomisb 64 lines, 100 comments, on Nov 22 11:34 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Spiritual, Philosophical
• emblem of a past lover

  by tara wilson 19 lines, 34 comments, on Nov 23 1:20 AM 2007. In Love
• The Thorn

  by sheltered 12 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 27 2:36 PM 2007
• Pen of Art

  by Luna Tique Fringe 36 lines, 21 comments, on Nov 28 4:15 PM 2007. In Fantasy
• cogito ergo amo

  by Grey 38 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 21 9:25 PM 2007
• Voice of the abused

  I will not hold my tongue any longer
  for the voice inside me needs to be heard

  by Soulful Woman 14 lines, 24 comments, on Nov 30 2:13 PM 2007. In Pain, Society, Thoughts
• Swallowing It Whole

  Your poem peels back the roof of my mouth,
  causes cankers on tender insides

  by CarolDesjarlais 19 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 3 7:31 AM 2007. In Love, Loss, Poetry
• adoration (the omitted understanding)

  by Grey 50 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 4 12:35 AM 2007. In Love
• Wet Talk - silver

  These are willow-words
  being cupped from water

  by CarolDesjarlais 36 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 3 10:47 PM 2007
• a life sentence...

  by Yvette Champ 56 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 4 1:55 PM 2007. In love, pain, reality
• mondays @ 6.30pm

  by misselaineous 18 lines, 14 comments, on Dec 7 12:46 PM 2007. In Personal
• Kaleidoscope

  You peered in and tumbled my bits of color
  as mirrors bent at awkward angles

  by Metaphorist 9 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 6 6:22 AM 2007. In Love
• No Periphery To Suffering

  Consistently leading me into the past
  With footsteps of imprinted sweat on glass.

  by 245Trioxin 43 lines, 11 comments, on Dec 9 6:09 PM 2007. In Dark, Depression, Life, Heartbreak, Personal, My Own Style
• Lancelot's Soliloquy

  Love cannot be resisted, yet
  The spirit limits oft will set

  by PerVirtuous 34 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 10 10:34 AM 2007. In Love, Spiritual, no guest
• Misfit

  Was never going to leave me, but reverse
  The fuse was lit into a devil cloned.

  by Tercil 33 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 6 3:11 PM 2007. In Thoughts, Pain, Life, Hope
• junctions

  by jantastic 22 lines, 27 comments, on Dec 8 3:14 PM 2007
• to sell oneself

  by truembrace 36 lines, 20 comments, on Dec 9 9:11 PM 2007. In Society, Other
• The Faith of Orpheus: Nihil

  by Grey 46 lines, 2 comments, on Dec 10 8:35 PM 2007. In Orpheus
• Shedding Skin - Bronze

  Little slivers of flesh
  where you pressed “I Love You,”

  by CarolDesjarlais 35 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 11 3:44 PM 2007. In Sorrow
• social worker poem

  by Nicolette 40 lines, 41 comments, on Dec 11 4:18 PM 2007. In Society, Life
• Implanting of Ravage

  the story of my Life

  by Grey 62 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 13 12:15 AM 2007
• Dandelion Realities

  Mom used to say
  dandelion seeds were tiny fairies -

  by Auburn Sunrise 15 lines, 16 comments, on Dec 13 5:36 PM 2007. In Weird, Life, Nature, Angst, Sad
• You Ask Why

  the sex is like a flat note
  while I fall on the staff

  by alexandrathegreat 5 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 15 1:12 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Personal, Thoughts, Life
• grokking

  by RainShadow 54 lines, 17 comments, on Dec 15 7:00 PM 2007. In Adult, Life, Love, Personal, Sad, Thoughts
• Letters of Lovers

  I cannot love you
  anymore as a child

  by Auburn Sunrise 18 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 17 9:58 PM 2007. In Love, Life, Sad, Hope
• Water-Baby

  by -ButterflyCuts- 17 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 10 7:20 AM 2007. In Ophelia, Personal, Sad, Suicide, Winter, Christmas, Life, Thoughts, Weird
• Transcribing the Wind

  What is that precious essence
  perfectly spilled from wells of poetry’s

  by ten thousand cicadas 41 lines, 27 comments, on Dec 11 8:41 PM 2007
• Not a Thing

  I can not think of a thing to write, void of all creative thought,

  by jessebyrons 12 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 19 10:49 PM 2007
• Hidden Candle

  Is it a sin to be
  The hand that washes

  by PerVirtuous 26 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 22 1:39 PM 2007. In Society, Hope, Love
• Our New Name

  little tails of stickiness
  dangling off the spoon to

  by PerVirtuous 17 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 29 3:39 PM 2007. In Personal
• The judgement of flowers

  by luvdrkchocolate 41 lines, 13 comments, on Dec 10 10:24 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Thoughts, Life
• Kudzu

  as if to spell with it's tendrils:
  defeat

  by Auburn Sunrise 24 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 31 4:05 PM 2007
• The cold walk back home

  by tara wilson 37 lines, 48 comments, on Jan 3 7:51 PM 2008
• Incongruencies

  and what have I to show
  but scars and carpet stains?

  by Auburn Sunrise 33 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 3 10:02 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Weird, Life
• A winter song

  I will sing of our winter now
  approaching

  by astralshepherd 62 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 7 1:28 PM 2008. In Personal, Reflection
• Exercises in Futility (A 10 Minute Poem)

  by PerVirtuous 16 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 7 9:53 PM 2008. In Adult, Humor
• And God Said

  by MJ Donnelly 11 lines, 15 comments, on Jan 9 9:01 PM 2008. In Spiritual, Life
• Beats of Love

  Hear the loud sound
  of joy pulsed through red;

  by LadyLavender 7 lines, 41 comments, on Nov 21 12:09 PM 2007. In love, passion, life
• goodbye, dancing boy

  volumes on the history of luck adorned the wall,
  and not one had been removed,

  by Phineas Red 14 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 25 7:37 PM 2008
• Lost and Found...

  by Yvette Champ 40 lines, 21 comments, on Jan 27 3:15 PM 2008. In erotica, lesbianism, adult

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• By me, right now

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• Suzanne Dia
  January 3, 2008
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  aw, thank you

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