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
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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, 37 comments, on May 20 9:26 PM. 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. -
If life's tree be but mirage, still its leaves
Awake joy's book, whose leaves forget life grieves.
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My Friends' published offerings
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published works by my Friends and me472 lines, 61 comments, on Nov 30 5:29 PM 2007. In Personal, Dedications, Love, Life, Creativity, Nature, Spirituality, Sorrow, Hope
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by rendezvous 35 lines, 9 comments, on May 21 5:10 PM
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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 recently published 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. 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
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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
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I dreamed a maze
with too many fingers,by kaibab 60 lines, 2 comments, on May 24 9:28 AM
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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
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The setting sun's fading eye
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by EvilKate 48 lines, 18 comments, on May 24 7:08 AM. In Contemporary, Longing, the Patience of Insecurity
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He: prehensile, vile,
She: pretense aisle guile trial lasts -
by EvilKate 54 lines, 13 comments, on May 25 6:18 AM. 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
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Three kinds of space:
That one, filled with anger and angst -
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 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
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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. In Society -
I. she was a deep cup in the centerby CarolDesjarlais 100 lines, 3 comments, on May 25 7:23 AM
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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
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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
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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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Slid like minnows through nets
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I come against the crashing
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by Nicole Hanna 24 lines, 22 comments, on May 27 5:23 PM
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wish upon a star, she said, with a shrug,
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Don't need no death news blues, not today . . . today as the blinding sunlight reveals itself
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didn't want to disappoint you leave furrows unfilled and flowers
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I can lay within the darkness a perfect shadow cast
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I was a seer when the West wind came out on the silver tide,
The city is gone as well as its name and gone to is my bride. -
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
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it was a cluster of stars,
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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
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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
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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. In Personal, Thoughts, Love, Life, Hope, Spiritual, Nature, Loss & Found, Contest. -
I have loved the lace in lyrics
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we bring gardens made of weeds,
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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. 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. In Love
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Carmen sits under lamp light
curled up in a red chair, -
He designed
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by EvilKate 41 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 5:49 AM. In Contemporary
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littered layout of my land,
wrinkle-scroll of loosening life -
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. 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
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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. In Contemporary
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If I had it all to do over again, perhaps I would revise a memory, or two, and recall
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The CNR trains that pass through our town, weigh less than they did ten years ago. I can tell by the weaker volume of glass, how our brittle-old windows seemed in danger of dissolving during harvest season, and the musi
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But even where the darkness shrouds
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I should've stopped. Turned around, and called it a day. Should've said alot of things I felt, but didn't. The smell of creosote, grass, hot tracks, and a sense, that there was
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by AJ Morelli 13 lines, 37 comments, on May 16 11:24 PM
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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
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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, 48 comments, on Mar 16 10:07 AM 2005. In Spiritual, Society, Humor, Parody. Reward
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voices trapped in yearning
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She is the wind,
the sweet breath of heavenby apoeticinjustice 91 lines, 46 comments, on Jan 31 12:01 AM. In Native American, Love, Sad, Spiritual, Historical, Legend -
by Idle Mind Wondering 35 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 19 12:37 AM
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Surrender to the tide of emotion
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Ethereal light entangling night
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He said we were comfortable.
That the world spins 'round the shade of my eyes;by Faithbound 43 lines, 4 comments, on May 31 12:34 AM -
there were fewer compromises
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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, 10 comments, on Jun 1 3:22 PM. 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
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Flick of wrist, hand-held puncture sharp pencil,by CarolDesjarlais 68 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 1 8:14 AM
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Let me come to you
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Against the glistening canvas,
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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, 4 comments, on Jun 2 7:36 PM. In Love. Reward
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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
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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
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Lord she was an angry woman, fire flash of eyes and hair
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Over time, I've forgotten the words, conversations lost
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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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Peel my petal,
poetic toesby kaibab 81 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 3 8:02 PM
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I am closed eyes
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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, 11 comments, on Jun 4 1:13 PM. 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. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest. Reward
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Three years ago.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, 10 comments, on Feb 14 12:27 AM
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Sometimes you hide,
just beyond the color of air; -
Do not speak to me of love, as if it were a minor chord
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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
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I thought I couldn't
take care of so much urgency,by PageTurner 52 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 6 6:28 PM. In Personal, Thoughts, Love, Life, Hope, Spiritual, Friendship, My life, Dedication -
I listen to songs of her soul
as lips curl in soft pronounciationsby Swan song 30 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 6 11:44 PM -
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 -
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, 7 comments, on Jun 7 5:13 PM. 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. In Thoughts
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by MuddyKing 23 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 6 6:48 PM. 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 kale
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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 19 lines, 18 comments, on Jun 7 7:28 PM -
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
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Often I have walked through distracted forests,
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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. In Writing, Poetics, Acrostic, Sonnet. Reward
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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
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Alone is the isle where they carried me
Under the willow late in June -
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, 20 comments, on Jun 5 8:54 PM. In Love. Reward
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Wisps of mist enwreathe the pine and fir
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Temptations easy leads to queasy ride,
ENduring strength should fickle fools deride.by Jonathan ROBIN 14 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 8 7:15 PM. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Life, Society. Reward -
Write away my sadness, finding power in my pen
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I dreamed of one who is to music wed