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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, 21 comments, on Jun 5 8:54 PM 2008. In Love
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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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Despite profanum vulgus' anguished cries
Each rule finds one exception rules defies -
As artists palette, paints, prepare
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Who puts all eggs in one basket,
bawls all begs in one ask it6 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 9 1:12 PM 2007. In Humor, Philosophy of Life -
Between two stars a robin found
far had it flown, yet no surprise87 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 3 10:11 AM 2007. In Translation, Time -
Room 202 bright white - nor curtains blue, nor scarlet velvet trappings status show,
no gilded chandeliers nor burnished glow divert atten -
Love lost, love won with one-to one, true faithfulness through trust, find once begun through time have run too often turn rust dust.
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As intuition sweetens, sweeps senses, doors open,
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A Controlled Response Offered Simply To Incite Curiosity
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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
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In seduction I lack not one whit in the sack, she kissed me right back like that, without sorrow,
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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
Thus sane need to retain worldwide. -
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, 59 comments, on Jun 30 9:50 AM 2007. In Nature -
A secret sadness pains my heart whenever, with a smiling face,
we meet with others, scarce apart, in drawing-room or public place.
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Rehearsal ? repetition ? f[o]ray fancy-free ?
Timed role’s played only once before cold blast. -
Grandma, Grandpa, greeting guests,
Green gardens, gold rings, games to guess.
Gold Moon transformed despite protest. -
Artists inarticulate, Billionaires bears, bulls would bate, Careless kids insatiate, Domination by dread State, Effete fools effeminate
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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 -
As nature hates a vacuum NOTHING can be but a figment fragment second-guessed. Reality and dreams combine, their quest is thus to...
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Wake wave, music's muse signals wavelength acceptance
nevermore refuse. Image upon a screen recognized as important as anything has been. -
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 right -
such fairness springs as evidence extends from pole to pole, day, night must intermingle, extradite all thought of envy, pride, high fence,16 lines, on Jan 22 3:55 AM. In Other
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Intent on gain, reign clover paid,
in tent on rain, pain overweighed.42 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 1 1:40 PM 2008. In Society, Ingenuities -
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 -
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The carnival of carefree play too long has tripped its careless way as senseless as an ass’s bray while flesh from flesh Time stripped away
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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, 7 comments, on Aug 24 2:52 PM 2007. In Philosophy of Life -
One world rides into another as cad-I-lack rolls turns into the casino.24 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 1 4:22 AM 2007. In Society, Vers Libres
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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, 8 comments, on Jul 30 5:13 AM 2007. In Nature
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Vain all Nature. In Time’s advancing stream
Vanitas ! vain grope, gloom dissolves Hope’s gleam
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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, 7 comments, on Apr 1 2:22 PM 2008. In Alliteration, acrostic, writing, poetics, Alphabetical Jonathan Robin, Humor -
Come live with me, my partner be, and we will every contract make that tricky opportunity presents in life of bid and (s)take.
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When fingertips are offered and arms swallowed, when today's landmarks become tomorrow's watershed tears,
what self-respect survives to fo -
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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An image springs to mind: A child, with childish innocence upon the shores of life, inclined to play, without pretence or mask.
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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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And yet you sing so sweetly, song hope deems
may turn new leaf, spurn grief, to answer dreams. -
There’s a story some tell, (here in verse we excel) ,
truth from falsehood intent on distilling,
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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, -
Relearning this: 'I am because I think'
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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
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Another summer evening’s golden link
Now adds to measured Time in mind of man. -
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, antennae act as looking glass Let telepathic tendrils touch, test out best nest expecti
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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.16 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 14 9:02 AM 2008. In Nature, Acrostic Sonnet -
Tears, shivers, shaking, regrets, head aching, fearing forsaking confidence flaking.
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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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Harsh discords mock unmetered toil,
all editors efface them,
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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. -
Soul sends to soul, serenity to share,
Here on this earth, and shed is every care,
All through the joy of knowing you for you ! -
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, ripped heart, unheeded warning
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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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I wander all alone and play with pebbles on the beach,
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All difference dissolves, is undermined.
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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,94 lines, 15 comments, on Jul 15 5:41 AM 2007. In Love -
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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Autumn sunbeams light on forest track
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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 ?
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Past and Present’s argument:
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Beacon beckon high
perched up in the mind's lighthouse
fingers the heart's cry.17 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 24 11:27 AM 2007. In Haiku, Philosophy of Life -
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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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Most b[l]ind, closed mind, sore, flawed, can’t conjugate
dimensions manifold unfold, translate
the cyphered hieroglyphics of soft smile.57 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 10 4:42 PM. In Love -
Don't overestimate apparent reasons, rhymes of season's trial:
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An agile mind with humour well combined
must tolerance embrace, contentment find...
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December turns November's shredded page.
Complacent assumptions artificial
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Affection which with shared direction
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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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Insects ambered in Time's gin. -
Two thralling eyes, unlatched attractive and unmatched
reveal, no strings attached, suggest search to respond
in many ways beyond eterni10 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 19 6:57 AM 2008. In Nature -
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
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Beyond cold tears, old fears, exotic dream
Extends to mend trust broken, to restore
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Creative talent, sensitivity,
Ally with high I.Q. and overview13 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 16 4:20 PM 2008. In Other -
Combining choice with voice, full sails, strong mast,
Heart high held here hopes harmony. Hurt bleak
At present fades preparing future f -
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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So lend an ear with second sight not third hand platitudes.
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Artists palette, paints, prepare, poets channel insight rare. One canvas fills, one paper inks, spanning imagination's links.
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BLED heart's quite healed, bright crystal clear.
WAs wait worthwhile? Touchée? Emue?
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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 cir25 lines, 37 comments, on Feb 9 7:47 AM 2007. In Love
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embracing the "oh dear, hear three in a row !"
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Profane, with bubble bray, most blow hot, cold on stage, then sink unheard before they even feel flow’s ripples stirred...
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Dreams teem, spring from synaptic leap before day's hustle bustle finds employment for 'productive' minds far more contented fast asleep.
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Seven years on top:
Burnt out Bush comes a cropper, -
As born with Spring, with roses born away,
Breasting breeze’s wing to swing on high, -
To make true change it takes a Biden and one B. One Biden and a B. And reverie. But reverie alone won't do 'til Palin's blue.
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If from truth's spectrum something's infra re[a]d,
Much ultra may be drawn for years ahead ... -
can crime pay in our heyday white collar ?
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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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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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She thought she saw quite equal pay afforded equal work, she looked again and found it was a most unusual quirk. “That men should keep thei
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Siren solo seas
scans, thinks bond links, winks, shows kinks
Wrong pray song prey sees -
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 2008. In Other -
Rippling outwards bird of Time
converts for unseen reason aspirations into rhyme whose trace breasts space and season to face fair futur8 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 3 3:53 AM 2008. In Thoughts -
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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Leave past regrets and vain expense through calm, discover future tense vibrating with tuned harmonies which may combine both hopes and dre
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Life’s chance encounters can precipitate
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Confronted with life's puzzle we
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Time time defies. Change may initiate
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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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Charmed encounter blossoms as life’s stair opportunity affords, joy rare reopens expectations which appear real, rhyme feel, weal, we’ll se
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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 2008. In Society -
What some receive as Gospel, strong believe, others hold as heresy, disgrace. Black, white, day, night, lack insight to replace with hid wh55 lines, 4 comments, on May 27 9:22 AM 2008. In Spiritual, Philosophy of Life, Other, Thoughts, Time
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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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Half empty, half full,
life's perceptions drip through time,
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New revolution: paradigm shifts spin old top
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Where minds unite crunched clock relents,
where'er they fight, punched clock laments,15 lines, on Jan 9 4:40 PM -
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
upon shared glance chance destiny conveyed.
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Coincidence as catalyst leading into a karmic dance evolving patterns - ambiance calls bluff, wins all, masks fall, dismissed.
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Empathy, by Chance is kissed, neither through insouciance nor focus, finding renaissance spurred as joys enhance minds’ tryst.
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Inside Outside Coincide Slide Abide23 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 17 10:56 AM 2007. In Love
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Collective chrysalis encased
in love’s state states case for fresh trace.
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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, 27 comments, on Feb 6 5:11 AM 2007. In Love
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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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NIRVANA spells RAN VAIN should thoughts unsaid
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Cupid wears no double face
as two united hearts may trace
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Where twin souls share serenity
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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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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, 19 comments, on Apr 19 7:11 AM 2008. In Love
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