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But a Number

April 19, 2017April 19, 2017 Paul Neglia 2542 Views 4 Comments age, complex, number, superiority, wisdom

But a Number You of endangered castes Wandering days of the past The sum of your age matters not

Respect: Don’t Lecture Me Please

April 19, 2017 John Hansen 4991 Views 13 Comments differences, expectations, patience, respect, tolerance, understanding

Respect: Don’t Lecture Me Please Respect for others is an important attribute to have. Everyone is different and you need

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Laundry at the “Jelly Donut” (2017)

April 18, 2017April 19, 2017 Jamie Lee Hamann 2589 Views 4 Comments community, Domestic Chores, jelly donut, laundry

“Jelly Donut and Your Laundry Cleaned” With stumble carry laundry up the hill just blocks from where I live near

Haiku Poetry

Summer Promises – Heavenly Glorious Sunshine

April 18, 2017August 22, 2018 Nithya Venkat 4229 Views 7 Comments flowers, haiku poetry, poems, promises, summer, sun, sunshine

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Imperfect Perhaps, Yet Striving

April 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1768 Views 2 Comments imperfection, learning, perspective, poem, sharing, striving

Striving for betterment… And who in perfection’s grace can deny the wisdom of words espoused, to better understanding, and further

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

As Confrontation Looms

April 17, 2017April 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1649 Views 3 Comments confrontation, demarcation, egos, peace, poem, war

And as the pendulum swings, the realizations cluster like cancer cells, destruction the only knell, the only consequence, when puffed

Free Verse Poetry

The Image In The Shattered Mirror

April 17, 2017February 22, 2024 R J Schwartz 2807 Views 4 Comments broken mirror, lost, reflection, regret

Losing myself in these slower motions Where my third person only observes My first person simmers in conflict And my

Free Verse Poetry

The boy and his funeral

April 17, 2017April 18, 2017 EdF 2380 Views 3 Comments a boy, consolaion, death, family, sorrow, Young funeral

The day was longer than any I’d ever known the first scent of strange smells forever remembered I stood close

Free Verse Poetry

The patriots watch and wait

April 17, 2017April 17, 2017 EdF 2312 Views 5 Comments campus, carnage, chaos, judgement, marching, protest

The patriots watch and wait We see all that you have done and know you have nothing else to do

Free Verse Poetry

Love Seeks Not Imprisonment

April 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2194 Views 4 Comments balance, eternity, freedom, harmony, love seeks, truth

Love Seeks Not Imprisonment Love seeks not imprisonment, Nor does it wish to enslave Mind, body, heart and soul, Tis

Free Verse Poetry

Sand Dunes of Yesterday

April 15, 2017April 17, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3682 Views 8 Comments life, love, love faded, our haven, sand dunes, yesterday

Sand Dunes of Yesterday It seems not so long ago when we stood Upon the sand dunes of yesterday, And

Poetry Rhyming Verse

I’ll never tire of the tides

April 15, 2017April 15, 2017 EdF 2008 Views 4 Comments Eternal love, eternities, flow, foamy seas, loves, oceans, silken sands, tides

Like a day renews itself so then do the tides as day by day nothing changes in the flowing There

Free Verse Poetry

A heaven like this one day

April 15, 2017April 15, 2017 EdF 1812 Views 3 Comments a heaven, free verse, poetry in spring, spring day

A heaven like this one day We will know when we arrive of that I ‘m so very sure I’ve

Rhyming Verse

Broken

April 15, 2017April 19, 2017 Paul Neglia 5281 Views 11 Comments empty, heartbreak, pain, vacant

Heart seeks passion … The doors ever open, The plan was for a while… But empty rooms on notice the

Novel Excerpt Poetry

The Prince and the Slave

April 15, 2017April 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2508 Views 4 Comments beauty, excerpt, prince, recompense, vanity, witch

CONTO 1 So vain was he, his mirrored reflection such a pleasure, he saw not the impediments nor the treasures

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Blame It On Willie And Waylon

April 14, 2017April 7, 2018 Kurt James 6320 Views 7 Comments country music, outlaw country, Waylon Jennings, Willie and Waylon, Willie Nelson

Outlaw Country … Willie and Waylon – Each and every one of us has a musical soundtrack just like a

Free Verse Poetry

How many loves go missing

April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 EdF 1897 Views 2 Comments forever, love, missing, soul of man

How many loves go missing … Was there ever a time for loves true innocence for man was it ever

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Epic Journey of Understanding

April 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 2310 Views 2 Comments epic love poetry, love, magic, universal love

Take pause for just a moment my love, My desire compels me to request humbly That you impart an allotment

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Ebbs and Flows, to Embrace

April 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1956 Views 4 Comments acceptance, ebbs, flows, life, poem, we create

As the waves crashed powerfully against the ragged shore, one could feel its delicate balance, one moment in languid ease,

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

All That Really Matters

April 13, 2017April 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1571 Views 2 Comments epistle, essence, experience, matters, physical, soul

All that matters is the soul, the essence of us in skinless vessel, and life, so pointedly wound in experience,

Free Verse Poetry

Fearless Girl Versus the Charging Bull

April 13, 2017 R J Schwartz 2738 Views 5 Comments bull, Di Modica, Fearless Girl, Visbal, wall street

On March 7th, 2017, a 50″ tall bronze statue of a youthful young girl was installed in Manhattan’s financial district.

Poetry Rhyming Verse

As Nature Speaks

April 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2216 Views 2 Comments chemicals, nature, poem, pollution, speaks, water

The wind does speak to me in dulcet tones, of life and nurture and truths well sewn, and I do

Creative Writing Memoir Poetry Sonnet

Redwood Trees – Journey Among the Giants

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 7421 Views 6 Comments forest, majestic, nature, profound, Redwood giants, Redwood trees

Redwood Trees Come journey among the giants with me, Redwood trees, tall and straight, they are giants Of the forest,