Poems Written by My Favorite AP Poets
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Is love my gentle smile inside your palm,
sweet grace to bend my face in awe of life,by kaibab 22 lines, 8 comments, on May 20 5:51 AM 2008
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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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I'll know if
gently his hands seek mineby klassy lassy 48 lines, 40 comments, on May 20 9:26 PM 2008. In Love -
Magic unfurled in stilly night, imagination wings free flight,
Advances past life's present plight, to share with you new world's delight. -
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If life's tree be but mirage, still its leaves
Awake joy's book, whose leaves forget life grieves.
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by rendezvous 35 lines, 9 comments, on May 21 5:10 PM 2008
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The sky is anxious, and there is haste
in the land of the fields where the dream awakens. - Shameless self-promotion of my book.
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shrouded in foggy unknowing
is drizzle down man and surrenderby CarolDesjarlais 31 lines, 8 comments, on May 21 8:53 AM 2008. In Society -
Should you stay fey Troubadour’s muse,
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Cement would crumble should I cave in to it now,
this weight wanting to break loose;by CarolDesjarlais 17 lines, 14 comments, on May 22 5:59 PM 2008
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If there's no judgement how can soul exist ? If there's no soul then judgement can't persist. If all ends spring from energy begun, and ene
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Toothed- coulees
freeze on their huntby CarolDesjarlais 24 lines, 6 comments, on May 23 9:40 AM 2008
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I dreamed a maze
with too many fingers,by kaibab 60 lines, 2 comments, on May 24 9:28 AM 2008
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How I laugh inside your melting.
Love is like a feathered raftby kaibab 43 lines, 6 comments, on May 24 9:54 AM 2008
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The setting sun's fading eye
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by EvilKate 48 lines, 16 comments, on May 24 7:08 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Longing, the Patience of Insecurity
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He: prehensile, vile,
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by EvilKate 54 lines, 13 comments, on May 25 6:18 AM 2008. In Contemporary
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Unused fields where a few sections
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There in the corner is a nemesis
my nemesis -
I will name you “Guilt” that ruffles its feathers
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It is by touch of eyes
I know you to be gentleby CarolDesjarlais 22 lines, 8 comments, on May 4 11:21 AM 2008
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Three kinds of space:
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Innocence, passing over the pulsing hum of insects,
to touch tender petals of strangeness in a rippling garden -
Blues nodding their old lady heads
knowing white petalsby CarolDesjarlais 17 lines, 11 comments, on May 18 9:11 AM 2008
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We push at definitions as if putty
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Metal taste of cutting edge
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After being beaten soundly,
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Moving within stipple shade of nightning pines,
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she rose as if to greet her lover, sun to her,
turned and faced himby CarolDesjarlais 41 lines, 9 comments, on May 21 11:59 AM 2008
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Beneath beauty, there is always sludge
stippled gravel gobs of gritby CarolDesjarlais 20 lines, 12 comments, on May 23 9:19 AM 2008
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My history is set to air out
raw barky reliefby CarolDesjarlais 32 lines, 4 comments, on May 23 9:29 AM 2008
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A poem, stirring in the firmament
swirls and waits in neon nests of galaxies,by CarolDesjarlais 25 lines, 8 comments, on May 24 12:39 PM 2008. In Inspiration -
I see a hundred little hook-and-eye fasteners
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No streams unknot their braids
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It is best not to hunger too hard for Spring while the biting beliefby CarolDesjarlais 41 lines, 6 comments, on May 24 2:22 PM 2008
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An inconvenient slip-shard of time ago
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There is a woman walking a dangling dog, a man
walking a wry-lipped woman, a bristle of boysby CarolDesjarlais 15 lines, 6 comments, on May 25 5:28 AM 2008. In Society -
I. she was a deep cup in the centerby CarolDesjarlais 100 lines, 3 comments, on May 25 7:23 AM 2008
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she was a bone waiting to snap, -
I. a garden ditch leading to a slow flood
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he doesn’t hear, so she yells,
without sounding angry, or hurt, or spitefulby CarolDesjarlais 57 lines, 14 comments, on May 25 2:32 PM 2008
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It is a beginning; -
Dearest Universe,
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red autumn
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Beauty as the dawn She is as beauty of the dawn,by Rovingone 30 lines, 4 comments, on May 25 4:12 PM 2008
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Sudden summer laughter wave lift-drifts. Lush vale
stirs startled, sweating afternoon. Echo's no avail,
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Cause and effect are manifest, - one race coeval with eight spindle legs receive accolades none challenge, disbelieve, potential
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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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I come against the crashing
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wish upon a star, she said,
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Don't need no death news blues, not today . . . today as the blinding sunlight reveals itself
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Time's skein unwinds as mind's refrain finds harmony and peace, keys into tunes which cue to runes foretelling free release...
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How wild is willowed mind,
to find as breathless inhalation,by kaibab 82 lines, 3 comments, on May 28 6:01 PM 2008
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Many levels interface to sing a magic tune which links heart, mind, may chart unexplored hope's map as, à la carte, dreams complement sole
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He wears not armor, pounded metal,by CarolDesjarlais 48 lines, 6 comments, on May 29 8:55 AM 2008
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Heal my windy space in flutter, in and out,by kaibab 36 lines, 5 comments, on May 29 9:30 AM 2008
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Sideway slants hover 'round a heart ~
When a spirit is set freeby PageTurner 61 lines, 14 comments, on May 25 3:13 PM 2008. In Personal, Thoughts, Love, Life, Hope, Spiritual, Nature, Loss & Found, Contest. -
I have loved the lace in lyrics
such pretty weaving catches need -
we bring gardens made of weeds,
that you might find a bloom in thereby pastiche 19 lines, 3 comments, on May 29 6:15 PM 2008 -
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He is the gardner
I wipe the music from my eyesby PageTurner 34 lines, 7 comments, on May 29 8:09 PM 2008. In Personal, Inspirational, Love, Life, Hope, Spiritual, Nature, Contest -
my palms slide along the contours of your psalms,by mimiagatha 48 lines, 4 comments, on May 15 6:46 AM 2008. In Love
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Carmen sits under lamp light
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He designed
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by EvilKate 41 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 5:49 AM 2008. In Contemporary
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littered layout of my land,
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Folded recompense for times tender tick
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Poems, fluttering in a fallen darkness
writing, strivingby CarolDesjarlais 19 lines, 4 comments, on May 31 6:42 AM 2008. In Writing -
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Hang my soul, as wild to dry,
soft in sky of dancing meadow,by kaibab 62 lines, 4 comments, on May 31 7:26 AM 2008
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a repost . . . you all know who the poet is in the third stanza, I'm sure . . . Marc In the confused North American night
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some days she tastes of lime-by EvilKate 50 lines, 8 comments, on May 31 12:02 PM 2008. In Contemporary
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by AJ Morelli 13 lines, 37 comments, on May 16 11:24 PM 2008
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All the words you've said to me
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Your will is citrus flame
melting frameby kaibab 49 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 1 4:45 PM 2008
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Right brain most female thought-modes represents,while left brain runs male mind-sets bent on sense, conclusions drawn between the two explby Jonathan ROBIN 1044 lines, 57 comments, on Mar 16 10:07 AM 2005. In Spiritual, Society, Humor, Parody
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voices trapped in yearning
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She is the wind,
the sweet breath of heavenby apoeticinjustice 91 lines, 52 comments, on Jan 31 12:01 AM 2008. In Native American, Love, Sad, Spiritual, Historical, Legend -
by Idle Mind Wondering 35 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 19 12:37 AM 2008
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Surrender to the tide of emotion
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Ethereal light entangled in night,
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So often, people speak of romance or love, or both, in the language of for ever and afters. It's an understandable impulse, travelled by moby EvilKate 39 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 1 3:22 PM 2008. In Contemporary
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You can see her presence in the brightly colored leaves,by Rovingone 22 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 1 5:48 PM 2008
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by Namita 44 lines, 40 comments, on May 21 9:00 AM 2008
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Flick of wrist, hand-held puncture sharp pencil,by CarolDesjarlais 68 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 1 8:14 AM 2008
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Against the glistening canvas,
behind the branches and leaves -
At lifting mist and settling stone,
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Here we bob beside each other, icebergs
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Just for you would I wait while the weight of the waiting brings home that our fate must henceforth intertwine, so the good that is mineby Jonathan ROBIN 22 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 2 7:36 PM 2008. In Love
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I hope that I am never rude,
meaning misconstrued to bare embarrassment,by kaibab 60 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 2 8:32 PM 2008
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I remember, I remember the house where I was born
before foreclosure took away the homestead I had sworn
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she sings in cadmium,
dances in old gold light,by CarolDesjarlais 23 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 2 7:53 AM 2008
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Lord she was an angry woman, fire flash of eyes and hair
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Who will remember when lush summer lips
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he can be where water sways
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by CarolDesjarlais 59 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 3 7:53 PM 2008
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Peel my petal,
poetic toesby kaibab 81 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 3 8:02 PM 2008
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Successful soul’s progress sheds superfluous shell
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I have no choice!
It was a gusty, hungry dayby PageTurner 31 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 4 1:13 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Hope, Spirituality, Personal Thoughts, Poetry, Contest. -
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 uby Jonathan ROBIN 16 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 4 4:16 PM 2008. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest
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by mimiagatha 373 lines, 40 comments, on Jun 18 11:00 AM 2004. In Love
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a flock
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by Lord Gegishov 24 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 14 12:27 AM 2008
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a woman, peering through shroud -
Mind your spot, as she-wolf thought,
by kaibab 74 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 6 6:01 PM 2008
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I thought I couldn't
take care of so much urgency,by PageTurner 52 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 6 6:28 PM 2008. In Personal, Thoughts, Love, Life, Hope, Spiritual, Friendship, My life, Dedication -
I bade myself be trophy, as golden as could be, so Vivian and Sophie,on AP Poetry, could [g]ape at gilt reflection that shows my rhyme ahea
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I wrote for you in amber cliffs
above dream's desert wavesby kaibab 95 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 7 8:24 AM 2008 -
Had we not met, or had I through disappointment's hole
never slipped, would joyful journey now begun
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Her thoughts like Diamonds...
She felt his lookby PageTurner 59 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 7 5:13 PM 2008. In Love, Life, Hope, Spiritual, Romance, Inspired by, Dedication, Fantasy, Contest. -
by rendezvous 41 lines, 13 comments, on Dec 12 11:06 PM 2007
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Between light dreams and darkness dread, between the calls of heart and head, what now seems natural, in season, appeared beforehand to bliby Jonathan ROBIN 33 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 6 5:07 PM 2008. In Thoughts
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by MuddyKing 23 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 6 6:48 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Coronation Ball of the Queen, Spiritual
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Imprinted on the tablets of the brain, wave mesh of integrated circuits seems scene window holographic, time's reels gain momentum as kaleby Jonathan ROBIN 20 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 7 4:46 AM 2008. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Palimpsest
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Winding down scene: see summer seeds, prepares, reeled thread which into orange autumn's haze inserts green flashes, golden sun ablaze,
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Waving sprigs of golden flowers
in fields with clover interspersed,by ecrivain01 20 lines, 18 comments, on Jun 7 7:28 PM 2008 -
Original poem: picnic
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Crickets cracking in the wheat, -
Purge my prairie dream to drifting hope,
this sea of river grassby kaibab 63 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 8 7:41 AM 2008
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Poetic harmony : Line after line is fed as on thought waves we’re sped. Yet with sense, form, in key Enlightenment we see responding, shari
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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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Moreover meaning may with each revision open more windows, clearer writer link reader who shows often indecision, ease seeks through whiteby Jonathan ROBIN 14 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 8 12:29 PM 2008. In Writing, Poetics, Acrostic, Sonnet
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Curve your eyes
to angel serving God in hillside,by kaibab 69 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 8 1:40 PM 2008
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Nature's piper must be paid sinkholes swallow Man's parade, several thousand years' charade swansong sighs, dies, leaves lands pristine gre
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Skelton dealt on terse taut verse taught strung list
tongue twist fast rhyme last time think sends wink ends
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Roman alphabetical lucrubations left brained hierarchical appear awkward concatenations long-winded, farsical compared to pillow word picto
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Quietly falls the night, and quiet, too, quintessence of delight, joy quite outstanding, sees need for walls free falls, joys sarabandingby Jonathan ROBIN 36 lines, 21 comments, on Jun 5 8:54 PM 2008. In Love
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Wisps of mist enwreathe the pine and fir
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Temptations easy leads to queasy ride,
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Write away my sadness, finding power in my pen
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ALL FADES INTO NOTHINGNESS AT LAST,
FADES fast, flame flame attracts, itself devours.
INTO Time’s vacuum hours suction hours –by Jonathan ROBIN 15 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 9 9:43 PM 2008. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest -
she is sometimes so full of another color
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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner
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simple sudden soft urgings,
peering from behind foldsby CarolDesjarlais 25 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 9 12:59 PM 2008
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My mother had a flower with little wax petals it was strange to pluck them, pinch them,
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Merriment means metamorphosis
Confidence creates charmed catharsis
by Jonathan ROBIN 15 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 10 11:24 PM 2008. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Love, Alliteration -
I am tired of war.
Tired of the screams of my menby deercatcher 95 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 15 11:21 PM 2006. In Love -
Grow my quill inside your middle,
where Nero stands, as burning fiddle,by kaibab 62 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 10 6:42 PM 2008
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Mention Present, Past is shadow dim as Present, passed, fair Future’s bells ring bright, united are all three : ‘us’, ‘her’, ‘him’s’ hymn,
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US may YOU/ME replace as heart's heart knows divinity, where two, divided, torn, expected little, giving much. Reborn connections linked,
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Though rain may fall, though winds may blow, 'forever' neither empty phrase nor passing phase is shown, love's blaze seeds pastures green,by Jonathan ROBIN 10 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 11 11:01 AM 2008. In Love
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She is bard of yard and willow,
growing greener grassby kaibab 88 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 11 5:49 PM 2008
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long after the night
fills up the sky -
Curve of eye and curve of earth both, from a distance blue
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I often wondered what have you found at the bottom of the lakeby mimiagatha 39 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 12 2:30 PM 2008. In Personal
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Seated by an arching window,
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by EvilKate 42 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 13 12:32 PM 2008. In Contemporary
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She sat silhouetted by his aura
and in the waning lightby PageTurner 32 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 13 1:49 PM 2008. In Creative, Fantasy, Feelings, Imagery, Picture inspired, Contest -
Hold her and I feel my heart,
Pounding hard in my chest.by Rovingone 28 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 14 11:48 AM 2008 -
she moves as a composition woven into your body
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Come to my honeyed tongue Inhale my emotions slowlyby PageTurner 17 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 14 3:55 PM 2008. In Longing, Love, Romance, Lost in thought, Sensual, Contest
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by chasingtheday 77 lines, 50 comments, on Oct 11 7:19 PM
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Thanks for including me on your list!
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Thank you...
I am honored to be on your list.
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I thank you again for including me on your list.
I most humbly honored.
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At first
I could not uncerstand the 'indications' to the various lists, then I noticed my poem included in your list. I am stunned; what a lovely person you are to have considered me. I am humbled. As always, blessings to you. Frans
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