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ALL FADES INTO NOTHINGNESS AT LAST,
FADES fast, flame flame attracts, itself devours.
INTO Time’s vacuum hours suction hours – -
A heart to cherish and soft hand to hold
High raise all mortal clay from common mould, -
Let life through stillness still more life gestate,
anon the pattern paints a second state... -
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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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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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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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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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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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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This flow is pattern icing on the cake
the poet bakes it takes the time to write -
Another autumn evening’s golden link
Now adds to measured Time in mind of man.
One more year [s]tumbles onto solstice brink, -
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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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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I wander all alone and play with pebbles on the beach,
and wonder at the Milky Way which other men may reach. -
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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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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An agile mind with humour well combined
must tolerance embrace, contentment find...
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Between dark past and future flight
Though chance seems blind behind sin’s call
True dance dreams find combined in all -
with empathy flowing both forwards and back
I feed from my need, live from need to give back. -
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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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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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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Confronted with life's puzzle we
prepare discontinuity. -
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 -
Silk, satin, laces,
hark lark, perks ! smirks lurk on jerks’
X rated faces. -
Inside Outside Coincide Slide Abide23 lines, 5 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, 27 comments, on Feb 6 5:11 AM 2007. In Love
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What brave new world will blow the wind of change ?
What challenges create, what rearrange ? -
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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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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Here inklings linking lines of thought are threaded neatly, simply brought to heel, reined in, discreetly taught to underscore ideas.
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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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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 2008. In Time, Philosophy of Life, Society, Acrostic, Sonnet
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Sun’s inks show, in the East.
Sun’s inks grow, rousing beast.
Sun’s inks glow, fun and feast, and plighting of love -
Early, late, while he dares grate counter Fate,
Surly hate, wily heirs wait, counterfeit -
Decisions take, nor hesitate nor bide
Excessive time awaiting from outside -
Response half-hearted raised its head then turned the other cheek upon some rumpled pillow bed, forgetting how to speak.
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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 ? ' -
From darkness stark may flesh fresh flake again,
unfettered spark, from wake wake, cry_oh_gain ? -
When boom doom of distant drum turns all laughter topsy-turvy; when ghost of Chrismas-yet-to-come -
what the dickens ! - makes one nervy. -
Successful soul’s progress sheds superfluous shell
as earthworm evolves into star. -
Draw near, my dear, and take my hand,
we’ll travel to true wonderland, -
Life's 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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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
Yearning for frustration's runway vent thin -
Shows not the softest candlelight whence springs pheromonal insight as tenderness finds wings for flight two generate true current bright ?43 lines, 13 comments, on Nov 8 12:23 PM 2007. In Love
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Facts dry may well define a rose,
Yet can its scent pour through poor prose ?
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Times of trouble sponge solutions new, insight inks page which once seemed whitewash blank. Grief is patient.
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Fate, judge and jury, sharpens stings
while Time, deceitful, pulls Life’s strings
then buries memory. -
Winged on one page of Destiny, love, amity and emity,
lend flashpoint sparkle swiftly we abandon for eternity. -
May [s]he fill heart with laughter, light,
Advance, words weaving soft delight, -
Escher, Gödel, Bach, together make mind's music tempo weather form to storm blocks, light as feather turn constraints most, far less clever117 lines, 40 comments, on Apr 6 8:14 AM 2008. In Other
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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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Eye contact is important, for the mind yearns to discern Life’s signals, to decode existence’s enigmas on the road to understanding, ever n15 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 10 8:29 PM 2008. In Philosophy of Life, Thoughts, Acrostic, Sonnet, Contest
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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, 5 comments, on Jun 4 4:16 PM 2008. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Time, Life, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest
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Fallen is star which once brightly, once clear from sheer firmament shone, no trace now remains as Time lightly grieves over life’s leaves
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Fool, fretting, dares not,
rushes to comply, won’t qualify, eats humble pie.
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Cast off passed footprints, seek to trace vast mark unique on Future's face, winnow Past's chaff from grain - no pain proves state of grace42 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 6 2:12 AM 2005. In Nature, Philosophy of Life, Hope, Thoughts, Society
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A bright idea spontaneously mixed with waters from a wide vocabulary oils wheels of thought which very soon are fixed, flash p[l]ans to cha
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When the last Home Page is indexed, content filtered, untried, and the oldest critic muzzled, youngest webmaster tried, we'll pass to a pea
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Love of language tears apart formality, digs deep behind the lines to draw conclusions signed in images which ever start to sketch horizons
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Shared views should tune two sunshine runes through flow to mend, to filter out, doubt's daunting pain, suspend in amber life's imbroglio,
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Where chance encounter contradicts Earth's dearth of understanding and enlightenment one rose through smog's pollution spreading scent is w
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If you’d win the game of life never sign as trophy wife, happiness is lovers three: one to cook, clean, fire for you, one to sire four chil
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So, Mower, mow,
sweep all who weep, with final coup de grâce. -
Between wolf and dog
sun sinks fiery teeth into
the horizon’s fog. -
Heaven and Earth meet over dew formality at the cloud bank's feet.
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Poetical rules
should be ingrained then ignored
only the heart schools -
Weathered Autumn fern
pours seed spores beyond frond tiers,
spurns [t]ether's concern -
May roses still bloom
when tomorrow sighs no more
over today's tomb -
Raindrops tap tap tap,
thunder, lightning spin affray
branches snap snap snap -
While log chimney’s lips
purse around long flaming tongue
spring rain, spitting, drips... -
From vain complain move on again see sea's brim full of fish, go take your pick as lips you lick so wickedly delish.
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Home they brought her lap-top dead,
got her back up, loud she cried, -
impression compression expression
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Descriptions fail. These splendours span
Eternities unguessed by man. -
I have a dream, to open my heart,
two hearts combine, part of each each becomes,
never sundered apart, nor divided, a sum -
I had been hungry - change of gears - intimacy, warmth, defeat send packing ! Lacking naught, WE greet long looked for happiness complete.
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I remember, I remember the house where I was born
before foreclosure took away the homestead I had sworn
in good faith, all attest 'tis t -
If then tomorrow, you awake to find us parted, do not break your heart, nor yet your raiment rent - but count the moments that were lent as
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twinned souls laid bare from whom sounds issue as stage-fright flash feelings pulse - what's wrong ? what's right ? - whip needing care !33 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 9 9:28 AM 2008. In Love
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The poet’s passion here on Earth is met,
his worth, his life, ambitions, are defined.
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Wide world, or vision narrow held as crutch confronting harsh fate knelled, too often interface is held to preconceptions neatly spelled.
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A puff of Time, - time as time’s bluff is seen, -
sees Life Time’s capsule in parenthesis.33 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 31 10:04 PM 2007. In Time -
In the village life repeats summer heats to summer heats, season after season greets echoes drummed, - past, present beats.
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In this world and of this world, we wonder whence we came and where to morrow we will soon be whirled through three score years and ten.
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Is passion palled by plenitude, or desecrated, sated ? castrated by its magnitude, once baited is abated ? Is passion passing interlude
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Self-feeding, the fire
desires its own warmth, and warms
to its own desire -
Whate’er the reasons that decide
the insolence of the individual; - bled
by fears, or blessed by wisdom wide, -
clouds below overhead
an airy azure sandwich
in between clouds spread -
Serenity stems from no outward show,
depends on light within to prosper, glow.
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electrons free charged you and me with mission key to play from cause/effect to Man erect - elected some would say -
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Autumn, and the Earth’s conceiving -
taken in, eyes weep
over one who left, deceiving. -
Sell static short, key change, unbattern hatch,
elastic thought, free range, fun pattern match. -
Time waits on time till Cause, Effect combine.
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Let life through stillness still more life gestate,
anon the pattern paints a second state ... -
Against the 'current', with the stream of light and life he'd soar serene, is it surprising that strong gleam stayed long unshared ?
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Love is acceptance passion lit, Overcomes expedience, ‘valid reasons’, ‘common sense’, even though the ‘perfect fit’ is seldom seen, takes
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Observe the busy bee, my son, which from dawn rich till day is done, from bloom to blossom journeying,
extracts from each a different thi -
Many links extended, t[r]end outwards into light,
As rainbow drops descended dispense due dew delight.
New roads must be defended to sti20 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 7 5:02 AM 2008. In Society, Thoughts, Acrostic Sonnet, Philosophy of Life -
CARPE DIEM’s intrinsically unwhimsical cryptic mystic slick MAD RECIPE lick may DICE, REMAP anagrams to activate grammatical analogies thro57 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 13 8:46 AM. In Vers Libres, Humor, Spiritual, Thoughts, Weird, Society, Life, Other, Contemporary
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It died as champagne bubbles uncorked the midnight hour, its blaze of light a timeless sight atop the Eiffel Tower.
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from flight bright feathered pheasant falls.
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A gourmand moth by night, unheard, had guzzled
the words by day enlightened man might write.
That God should tolerate their fate I’m puzz -
Perhaps analogy we glean through pixels which excite, enrage right brain thinking as from cage impressions rise to set fresh scene,
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Love’s lighthouse beacon wreathed in music may
illuminate, each season sweet as May.
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I, don, review rare mind’s fair trace, solar, timeless, doubts does chase. Read miracle: fab sonnet’s lace ties down, adopts real mine,
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Rhyme carries more than meaning: music, timing, pattern, play, holistic core explore, link sense to ‘whither’, ‘whence’, nor mummer’s mimin
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Mirror thus connects, collects and self respects, perpetually perfects externals it bedecks with inner meanings' might
37 lines, 21 comments, on Jul 18 5:52 PM 2007. In Other -
He peeks she physiques beaut ... ekes. They cheek to cheek ...
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Tenderness through touch together keyed. Hope for scope sends light which emanates Intense emotions as each heart vibrates,
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For centuries man from the sun sought guiding light, but cycles turn, - where light is now one day will none
remain to kindle hope or burn18 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 6 4:15 PM 2007. In Philosophy of Life, Thoughts -
Let my last breath, as perfume pressed,
be born upon time's tide breeze blest
by love’s soft sighs, then laid to rest - -
A poet is an artist who disposes upon an un tau[gh]t canvas wor[l]ds which set against each other suddenly forget accepted meanings.
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Not think on you ? Is gravity reversed ? Is Earth's attraction topsy-turvy cursed ? are pheromones as honeycombs combined59 lines, 16 comments, on Jan 13 2:45 PM 2007. In Love
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From mess congestive to suggestive test of chaos, universal fractal fest patterns pitter patter, matter must invent itself from, to, throug
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Soft all as feather's fall Ma'at tests to weigh
A day, year, threescore ten, scale called for sins
Life's limelight stole from soul when -
Time's sea through which surfed story stares,
draws close and then again withdraws,60 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 26 12:08 AM 2007. In Time -
One thought ripples through ten thousand more,
Networked, these triple, multiply Man's store. -
When we consider all our freedoms lost with HA ! BE U.S. ! Corpus of bush law, black death to hide the whitewash when p’lice score ’gainst
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We p[l][a]y our way just once while Fate prepares
E ffect and Cause to synchronize one chance -
One through, from, one emerging, together surging sing,
no artifice, no urging is needed, purging sting.110 lines, 48 comments, on Dec 18 10:13 PM 2006. In Love -
Think of a reign eighty years long, patience a vain rein to headstrong, growing again, from weak to strong, legerdemain eighty years long.
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One wonders what wonders tomorrow may bring to the man in the street when freedoms are traded to borrow a credit card kitchen complete.
49 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 11 8:17 AM 2008. In Society -
Rich am I knowing love, my view is clear,
poor too through knowing what I lacked before
shows me how lost I was, who held self dear. -
Peace - End, Aim - Chance Ever Extraordinary As Choice Enables Prosperity Authentic Creativity Empowerment Proven Expansion, Convergence28 lines, 30 comments, on Jan 17 12:47 AM 2007. In Spiritual, polyacrostic
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Luck, good, bad, is sought from stars, or cards, whose scope seems all embracing from cell pad from which fools launch all future hope.
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The second she shuddered his rudder was lost, while wedded heart's shredded, love's counting the cost. Where morals opt out of unjust parad8 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 1 4:18 AM 2007. In Love
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I am round, perfect found,to Omega from Alpha I ALL do embrace and though for tail lashing you’re eager once you’re in membrane thin I’ll
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'A mouthful of originality'
too much to swallow proves to minds at sea ! -
so suspend all hasty judgements, who can tell what lies in store, and be satisfied with happiness - don’t always ask for more !
31 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 3 6:42 AM 2007. In Society -
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Screen sedges rustle as if phantom fipple
had muted moans unheeded, reedy cry,
transmuting tune-true tones to whispery sigh. -
Piled mountains look a marathon,
and marathon finds me at sea: -
Patterns form as piece by jigsaw piece / Inventions flash across flat mobile screen, / Xtract a nano profile, sensed not seen, - / Endless
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Scorning hesitation’s living lies,
dew drops gathered from forget-me-not.
Informed awareness reaches out to touch -
Poetry beats time with rhyme in motion. Pulse vibrates and impulse stimulates. pen which explores, redraws, accentuates, excites the mind,
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Poetry is metamorphosis of heart and mind combined - Emotions surge to urge osmosis, to merge what ‘chance’ can find
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If false is truth’s mirrored reflection, if life and death spin/share same coin, then what is the point of perfection when opposites
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"Aim to please her" arms lines entered, see
Neat chart is furnished from all error free.
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Jingle verse to Jane luck's just jaunt jest. Our expertise ? - no orchestra in song, no signature, as no fit joints run strong as stars' gr
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As Jane might dread whatever Jean feels sound,
Some sonnets wax and some are lost to song, -
Yet through the years my work may still shin81 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 10 5:48 PM 2008. In Acrostic, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest, Sonnet, Hope, Life, Writing, Poetics, Time -
Open your hearts and happiness will become true
Or foster new hopes, giving joy anew
What Enterprise137 lines, 53 comments, on Jan 4 9:44 AM 2007. In Brainteaser, Poetics, Writing, Polyacrostic, Sonnet, Humor, Acrostic -
Light glance, as Cupid's heart dart dance, portray Open heart: all’s all, each part of each.’ undo depression.14 lines, 14 comments, on Nov 12 11:20 AM 2008. In Acrostic, Sonnet, Hope, Life, Writing, Poetics, Polyacrostic, Palimpsest
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Post-modern culture lessons few has learned
Years stretched to centuries times forty-eight
Raising structures daring Time's 'dew' date. -
The jackals jerking on the jess of Time shall slip their shackles. Hordes, like ancient huns whose spears seem toys before tomorrow’s guns,
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Our sense of being part of Life’s full dance.
Prepare each day, play role repair which brings
Enlightenment, whose harmony rhyme sings... -
He stands as high in his own estimate as Everest, yet never rests to show he represents quintessence crowned by Fate
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These featured points outline one Poet's view
though points, when featured, comments draw too few -
She must have seen us walk along beneath the open sky glanced sidelong as two hands soft, strong, danced rings gold rings deny.
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The era of pleasure is over for ever, prosperity palls where it does not appal. When seeking some sanity see, we must sever last links with
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Song of my soul, soul of song, long to belong to true beau, strong where most, weak, string along, short to wrong conquer and, oh !
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What most hurts me, I wait ‘Why’ not knowing, sad fate, without love, without hate, ... On my heart lies deadweight !
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judgemental values leave behind !
Expanding opportunity
detests blind vested interest bind, -
Trees, starting small, rise tall, then fall fulfilling destiny, whose constant call stays on the ball in perpetuity Life from Death knew
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Another day Man loses Time has gained, played out its phase and yet rephrased its song – renaissance of a theme-dream’s echo strong whose c
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