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The heart that sows is star that glows
In tune reel ran fed through rhyme’s fan,
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Quietly falls the night, and quiet, too, quintessence of delight, joy quite outstanding, sees need for walls free falls, joys sarabanding36 lines, 20 comments, on Jun 5 8:54 PM. In Love. Reward
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He meets by chance he’ll ever bless handmaiden, and some hidden hand unveils an inner loveliness too few take time to understand.
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My verse cannot completely trace a fair reflection who's soft light underscores such endless grace,dream words, found wanting, seek insight
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Who puts all eggs in one basket,
bawls all begs in one ask it -
Between two stars a robin found
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As intuition sweetens, sweeps senses, doors open,
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Sixteen years, come rain or shine, we walk
around the house, know friends and rascals well,
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ALL FADES INTO NOTHINGNESS AT LAST,
FADES fast, flame flame attracts, itself devours.
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A heart to cherish and soft hand to hold
High raise all mortal clay from common mould,18 lines, 19 comments, on Aug 30 7:53 PM 2007. In Love. Reward
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"Why, Chloe, thus squander your prime, in debate between fear and temptation? If adulterous love be a crime, why quarrel with plain fornica
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Let life through stillness still more life gestate,
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A poem is a pearl which, line by line, presents an image musically aligned, opening the windows of the mind enchanting and instructive,
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The right inalienable to decide
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Of all that nature’s garden grows the fairest flower is the Rose, bending to each breeze that blows.
her spiny thorns are elf arrows25 lines, 31 comments, on Jun 30 9:50 AM 2007. In Nature. Reward -
A to Z of all I hate
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A turn of phrase, sublime or simple,
can beautify an ugly pimple11 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 21 9:43 PM 2007. In Other. Reward -
Let each, unique, seek out the secret key
Of life’s sweet music, inmost harmony ! -
Wake wave, music's muse signals wavelength acceptance
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She stands on river's brink to think of future fair ahead, holds hands with wonder's link to ink all hope heart, silent, said.
holds han -
Although accessibility at times appears an empty dream
Creative strategies MUST lead to recognition of this right16 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 21 10:22 PM 2007. In Society, Special Needs. Reward -
As excitement trips synaptic traps, taps inner ocean tide Deep within the spirit calling to the hidden beast inside, Rising quicker, quicke
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Spring water purchased in neat plastic bottle,
sports car equipped with an elegant throttle,
all must be sold, unemployment to throttle.56 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 25 3:37 PM 2007. In Society. Reward -
Unified
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After the funeral the Past departed with the last forced mourners, whose facial expressions with their tremolo of tics,
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Essential is it to unite
to pressing questions answers which23 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 24 2:52 PM 2007. In Philosophy of Life. Reward
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One world rides into another as cad-I-lack rolls turns into the casino.
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Grilled golden grains glance through his restless hands, strong suntanned fingers straining sandy rain. Stranded on a strip of ocean land,17 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 30 5:13 AM 2007. In Nature. Reward
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Awareness sharpens, thought trains slide along rails unsuspected, seldom entertained, as change spins through effect and cause untrained
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Entertaining epistle’s extent e’er ensnare
Easy erudition evident everywhere112 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 1 2:22 PM. In Alliteration, acrostic, writing, poetics, Alphabetical Jonathan Robin, Humor. Reward -
Come Live with Me and be My Love
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When fingertips are offered and arms swallowed, when today's landmarks become tomorrow's watershed tears,
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Adored and angelic Amelia. Accept an ardent and artless amourist’s affections, alleviate an anguished admirer’s alarms, answer an amorous
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An authentically aware altruist adorns AP as author artist always a-musing and anathema all argumentT urns to thread trust, truth, then tenderness.
ONly ONe ONline ONeiric ONerousless
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This flow is pattern icing on the cake
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Two travelled on lines parallel while wheeled the reel of history, that reel ran out and then the bell
tolled once, - to tell eternity -
If life's tree be but mirage, still its leaves
Awake joy's book, whose leaves forget life grieves.
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Another autumn evening’s golden link
Now adds to measured Time in mind of man.
One more year [s]tumbles onto solstice brink, -
When entertaining easy options think each step leads on to better or to worse14 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 26 6:37 PM 2007. In Ehics, Philosophy. Reward
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Rising waters. Few escape Eye’s aim.
Energies mischannelled, modern man,
Victim of needs perceived, no longer can -
An ant another ant can’t pass without enquiry ever,
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Dear AP I'm asked about blocking those who comments oft copy and paste, and those who insults in their stocking include, who good-feeling w
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Ten thousand airy AP raps
w[r]itting down ra[n]t hunch -
another moon Plies silver gossamer surprise profound.
Rebounding droplets of spaced spring too soon
In Lethe's stream eternity resound. -
Some from within, some from without, without a doubt set to, ...
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AN artifact by accident, design, Time's spared though so few items grace fate's trace, Identified with culture, usage, race,
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You give your verse a prosy st[r]ain, with stress complete the air, but vain attempts too often strain
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As artists palette, paints, prepare
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Youth, age, together, thus may mock despair,
PEARL Seed be[a]d-feed leads to new life, joy rare... -
synapses slowed, eyes dimmed, hair greyed,
parade band silent, spent perfume.
I passed as fast as flowers fade. -
Nestor endured two hundred years despair awaiting joy, anticipating you14 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 2 11:55 PM 2007. In Love
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For dust to dust returns, earth turns to earth;
Each sickled moon a sickly herald, wan,
Is witness to impermanence. Fanned plan -
As rock, protective ice-cap stripped by rival's global warming, fresh water drained, soul tainted, whipped,
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As time sleeps by love’s tide sweeps sluggard, cold, Slow beats heart's flow, forgets dreams' heats once sought.
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The mark one makes must lightly lie
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Once in a lifetime lucky few may find
such inspiration words can’t even try
to pin down, predefine, or qualify,46 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 15 5:41 AM 2007. In Love. Reward
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Aristocratic amourist's angel,
always admired, attracts acclaim,
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Automobiles take toll on the streets, decoded as route rout riot symbols trafficking influence, clash crash of status cymbals – so many cro
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Rise above life's challenge slope !
SEA-change awaits as crocus, once snowbound,
SONg sings which trees decks green, gifts green to grou -
Upon our earth everywhere, as g00d is in all as all, within its one time cocoon hibernating anticipating due awakening,
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Tsunamis tidal swamp towns, drown today, earthquakes pride deride as faraway too close for comfort has become, will weigh on global village
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Balloon hope races to true light all clouds disperse, all fears take flight, on future fair pace places dreams on past despair trace fades,
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Montezuma's tomb hides treasure hold,
or dust some Spanish pride parade would spade ?
Beauty, barter bait, alluring gold, -
Past and Present’s argument:
busy bee belligerent
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Beacon beckon high
perched up in the mind's lighthouse
fingers the heart's cry.17 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 24 11:27 AM 2007. In Haiku, Philosophy of Life. Reward -
She from his pocket book took note, he on her beauty hung his coat. Was this a fair exchange, a beast to beauty bound ? Affection ceased :
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I think that I shall never seizeupon a greater buzz than bees, who note both breeze, precipitation, who vote for trees at pollen station
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Paralysis as passing stage
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Bernanke's hanky-panky and economics cranky. reduces rates for yankee on Wall Street sleek and swanky.
Bearded wonders lanky are sure to -
Pass in review true causal chain's formation
Envisage Russia in Afganistan,31 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 11 6:20 AM 2007. In Society -
Between dark past and future flight
Though chance seems blind behind sin’s call
True dance dreams find combined in all -
Each page youth inks, seeks wings, pride flame,
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Two thralling eyes, unlatched attractive and unmatched
reveal, no strings attached, suggest search to respond
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Life’s pattern shifts as time from time’s thread stock mutates or waits on catalyst to key into, through, metamorphosis to free free-will f
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Creative talent, sensitivity,
Ally with high I.Q. and overview13 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 16 4:20 PM. In Other -
Boris hugged me when we met jumping up outside the Kremlin, Gorbo-chief who’d love to get a jump on time, why just stuff that inside your h
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From shore to shore I brave wild waves
with winds unsure 'bove mermaid cave,
in shine or pour with message grave -
with empathy flowing both forwards and back
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Break, break, break, of my bones both left and right, and I would that my tongue could butter rye bread, my teeth could bite !
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Artists palette, paints, prepare, poets channel insight rare. One canvas fills, one paper inks, bridge imagination's links.
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My days are spent in trances while all my nightly dreams no light know where your glances are absent, their bright gleams brush adverse cir26 lines, 35 comments, on Feb 9 7:47 AM 2007. In Love. Reward
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embracing the "oh dear, hear three in a row !"
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most blow hot, cold on stage, then sink unheard
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Seven years on top:
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As born with Spring, with roses born away,
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Can knowledge any sense in life retain ?
All trace in space must some day disappear.
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Above dry desert angry morn's red rise expands sharp breathless air. Sun sweeps starred skies, grilling golden sands that sting rimmed eye
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If from truth's spectrum something's infra re[a]d,
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syllable drop / ghosts of haiku yet to come / don't dig, turn grave
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Where cash reasons not rhymes one would seize on where interest not principles pays,
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in fount of Youth, to drown – what need ? On half-life echo, fippled reed, why haste with such ill gotten speed, last words repeating ? Thu
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Crash victim seemed an ordinary man
whose karmic thread led to one time, one place,16 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 26 10:24 PM. In Other. Reward -
Cause and effect converge when on life’s heartsichord
Odd memories of each afford instant recall.41 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 4 10:14 AM 2007. In Time -
Rippling outwards bird of Time
converts for unseen reason aspirations into rhyme whose trace breasts space and season to face fair futur7 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 3 3:53 AM. In Thoughts. Reward -
Rippling outwards bird of Time
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We wanted nice Rice but she came with a whip,
a sad, inexcusable C.I.A. slip.
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Some sights may best be seen with eyes tight shut as if the Truth would bar commotion caused by Man - whose star extinguished soon may be.
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Time time defies. Change may initiate
Insight, vision new, expands to date -
Whoever could indict a land so serene vents spleen !
What other fields are brighter crops yellow, rust and greens ? what sense of humour l -
Chapter and verse in sonnet setting here have sought to recognize beyond all speech effects and causes, time-lines over-reach,
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Chimp champion, ace trouble shooter,
was placed face value by recruiter -
abrogating ‘privacy’, whose dearth
is proof of dictatorial decree,
falls witness-victim sacrificed, with mirth209 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 2 11:11 AM. In Society. Reward -
What some receive as Gospel, strong believe, others hold as heresy, disgrace. Black, white, day, night, lack insight to replace with hid wh55 lines, 3 comments, on May 27 9:22 AM. In Spiritual, Philosophy of Life, Other, Thoughts, Time. Reward
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What shadow seems, what light beam seams unzip, is figment of imagination or insight into eve's apple's core, skin, pip to link past future
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New revolution: paradigm shifts spin old top
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Figurant half-hidden fades below / the plodding hoofs of half forgotten years, / from chariot to dray spanned, disappears. / Hansom, carria
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Silk, satin, laces,
hark lark, perks ! smirks lurk on jerks’
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Time in suspended animation stands
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What’s in a memory that seems to stick
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Inside Outside Coincide Slide Abide23 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 17 10:56 AM 2007. In Love
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Come dance with me and find release, team into dreams, with wild wolves run, no nightmares stalk where heart finds peace. A stellar future137 lines, 19 comments, on Feb 6 5:11 AM 2007. In Love. Reward
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Come flood with me, sandbags remove, and see, at sea, cold water mark
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live with me, my partner be, and we will every contract make
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Commuting's fun once begun ! Morn, rise with sun - Milk, tea, bun. Unto station run, train don’t shun.
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Cupid wears no double face
as two united hearts may trace
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Before big bang rang changes whose range remains in flux Our atoms then were strangers to call of ‘fiat lux’. Along came fission’s fusion
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Open house where friendship, love, blend, bloom,
Where darkness fails, where light tips scales of doom.
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Styx shan’t swallow, hours devour, your soul
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No rush, no crush, no pride of place,
nor hide, nor free-ride commonplace,
as two take time to interface14 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 19 7:11 AM. In Love. Reward
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explore all open options, shed false pride
before face pales, pulse fails, - time to depart.202 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 8 11:02 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Society -
fast flick of fiery flame fin [s]he shoots an em’rald, pearl and golden shiver through crystal stillness blue, yet still a-quiver
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no asking why, nor spoke reply, we’d need, nor seek, nor care -32 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 29 10:03 PM. In Nature. Reward -
Take tenderness as touchstone, trust as blade, with constancy to thwart the darkest shade, as courage clad convictions conquer all,
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Here, once again, the lines of thought are threaded neatly, simply brought to heel, reined in, discreetly taught to underscore ideas.
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God returned to Her drawing-board
to discover the decimal point of error.
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Verse : a crys(t)al - id, halfway-house between
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From King George we'll independance win revolution justice will restore, our liberty remains life's only law, more freedom and less tax on
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nostalgic tears before breath flows so fast from cast off shadow-shows that those remaining in their clay shake,shiver,quiver,quake,betray
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“Chance” intercepts flow's waves, 'free choice' would bring
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Cusps converge then redivide, unexpectedly conceal
symphonic links Time may reveal perchance some day tune runed inside, subtle riddles43 lines, 2 comments, on May 27 7:19 AM. In Time, Philosophy of Life, Society, Acrostic, Sonnet. Reward -
Monday Morning, full of dread, we pray
the postman no new bills will bring our way.21 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 16 10:19 PM 2007. In Society. Reward -
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Sun’s inks show, in the East.
Sun’s inks grow, rousing beast.
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Though two lips eloquent would stitch
a tale of wanderlust, life's switch
won't be depressed, days full still reign.11 lines, 8 comments, on May 23 2:19 PM. In Time. Reward -
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Dreams often the minority divide essentially from masses mystified. Champion truth not falsehood, for ahead is clarity, options authentifie
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One minute here, hearsay the next, Two minutes: paradise expects. Third minute: second thoughts await
Fourth minute explanations late.
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Delved underneath the church, a simple crypt
Exists which fosters deep poetic drive,
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thud upon empty spring stomach
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Response half-hearted raised its head then turned the other cheek upon some rumpled pillow bed, forgetting how to speak.
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Recordings - unique keynote paraphrase.
Chained chromosomes control Life’s nights and days,
Encoding telomeres in locks, dark, blond, -
Will often will shrug off restrictions,
still, seldom still: Man's contradictions.
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'The spine that shivers sets the score
for mind beyond the shadows led, -
what's lust to who may prey no more ? ' -
DIFFERENCES
AND DEFINITIONS131 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 15 9:35 AM 2005. In Humor -
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From darkness stark may flesh fresh flake again,
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Put in power lasts an hour, Sad damned man's did too, when the spell in spelling's broken, Shah "I ran" would rue.
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Tired men react to role-reversing reel,
Harsh judgement pass upon deceptions deep.
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Successful soul’s progress sheds superfluous shell
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Beyond Time’s dark, incessant, grind,
find ways with creativity
to soar, explore, - scope redesigned -53 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 1 12:50 AM. In Society, Cause and Effect, Alphabetical Jonathan Robin. Reward
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Yes, the clock ticks downhill all the way, until the very end.”
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Draw near, my dear, and take my hand,
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Dreams hyphonate what still may come with what stays still, forever dumb, retain the reins of destiny
so reign’s refrain’s sustained, stay84 lines, 15 comments, on Apr 6 11:57 AM. In Other. Reward -
Who is finger, Who ring ? We love it when the string song tunes violin to bow strings tau[gh]t as fingers dance along, share every note we66 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 3 12:07 AM 2007. In Love. Reward
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The cycle turns as candle burns, warms all within its beams, ~ road cats' eyes take, make no mistake, tomorrow threads your dreams ...
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Due dew on hedgerows once we knew,
Rainbows bridging the sky,32 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 15 5:12 PM 2007. In Nature -
Famine, furtive first, assertive soon,
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Eclectic entries express emotion, effectively ensure enjoyment examined everywhere.
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Cycles some would modify
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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.
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Anorexic li[n]e schemes superficial.
No leeway as will o' whi[s]p mannequin
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TIME, TIDE, DRAW A LIT TRAP, SPOOL DUAL LIVE ON EYE NO EVIL LAUD LOOPS PART TIL AWARD EDIT, EMIT.
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Come heed Pope - Alexander - quoted, he
Marks "little learning may intoxicate,
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Shows not the softest candlelight whence springs pheromonal insight as tenderness finds wings for flight two generate true current bright ?43 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 8 12:23 PM 2007. In Love. Reward
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Times of trouble sponge solutions new, insight inks page which once seemed whitewash blank. Grief is patient.Joy greets the dawn to thank h
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May [s]he fill heart with laughter, light,
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I lived ignoring care and weight
drifted here, there, at easy gait,36 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 3 9:43 PM 2007. In Life, Translation -
Yet Gift in German cannot lack ironic understanding - fact plague vision curse calls as abyss replaces metamorphosis that, stifled now, has
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Escher, Gödel, Bach, together make mind's music tempo weather form to storm blocks, light as feather turn constraints most, far less clever116 lines, 18 comments, on Apr 6 8:14 AM. In Other. Reward
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The night before, reared insincere head ugly, no dream-future clear could lighten load, elastoplast afforded hide-bound mind’s repast.
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Aeons root, shoot, fruit, tree, end and start,
Under, above, in, out, earth, sky and sea,
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Exquisite gifts ! This mirror magic’s tame
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Eye contact is important, for the mind yearns to discern Life’s signals, to decode existence’s enigmas on the road to understanding, ever n
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Today’s dark s[l]ide spins bright tomorrow, may
catalyze reflection’s stalacmite, internal contradictions, paradox, Eye though seams seems -
What happens at the closing of my eyes ? happens in that sleep which all must know at the beginning’s end, when fast and slow, the tide’s u16 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 4 4:16 PM. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest. Reward
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Forced “progress’” pace, accelerating years race onwards, spiral with increasing speed, each chasing each proclaiming global need,
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The frog, comes on little toed feet
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FIT LINT, IF, FIN, IN FLINT to start FIRST phrase
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A cherry blossom spri[n]gs as h[e]aven stream
Neath rainbow bloom beads whose bouquet may bridge,
Graft, eastern ‘floating world’ to wes -
If fair stars glitter in my eyes from you they're sent 'tis no surprise. Magic unfurled in stilly night, imagination's wings, free flight,
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Fake, fake, fake on the canvas tau[gh]t I see, while the auction records tumble – uncounterfeited glee !
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Fallen is star which once brightly,
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I often have some strange and striking dreams about an unknown girl, of love we share, each time the same, each time a different air
80 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 3 11:06 PM 2007. In Love, Translation -
Farewell, misunderstandings / Farewell, past perjury ! / Let not unhappy landings / Presume life’s verity. / The pleasure of possessing / S
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no stone unturned, - deserved, ill earned - in search of mirage dreams22 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 27 12:38 AM. In Society
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All Mankind’s felicity
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Way's narrow, high's temptation's signing fee
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Adapt to writing on the wall, respond, react not, and recall that Nature tries to overturn the status quo so learn to spurn rigidity which
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Seeking enlightenment where apprehension
Or instinct’s fears, dissolves, and where ‘to be’
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FLY magician, Friendship wears a coat Unstained by bias, blackmail or exclusion,14 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 30 4:36 PM 2007. In Love
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Uncertainty through friendship's swept away,
GHosts fade, no rigid rules need fri