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Wishing Upon Too Many Stars

February 13, 2017 R J Schwartz 1971 Views 2 Comments adulthood, charms, good luck, magic, wish

Upon a falling star did my wishing For rewards quite materialistic and certainly self-serving Caring but for me, and mine, and

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Children of the Lightning Gods

February 10, 2017 R J Schwartz 2162 Views 2 Comments electrical components, electricity, lightning, poem, poetry

The children of the lightning gods have their secrets revealed Invisibility wearing the cloak of a physical phenomenon The great

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My Imagination

February 5, 2017 Rasma Raisters 5079 Views 6 Comments imagination, poems, poetic words, poetry

My imagination wants to fly, far above and reach the clouds. My imagination, longs to dream the impossible dream, flying

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Caught In a Time Warp

January 28, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2422 Views 8 Comments love, poems, poetry, time warp, young at heart

They were the youngest couple, at the senior citizen dance, they showed them all, what dancing was all about, with

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Making Contact

January 27, 2017 R J Schwartz 2851 Views 5 Comments alien, Contact, spaceship, ufo, we are not alone

The three streaks of effervescent light slip quietly across the night sky Akin to shooting stars, they contrast the darkness

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Life’s Memories Forgotten

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2354 Views 13 Comments afraid, alzheimers, fear, Forgotten, life's memories, poetry

Life’s Memories Forgotten You gazed at me in a strange way one day, It made me feel odd, out

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Adrenalin – Fight or Flight the Modern Way

January 24, 2017 R J Schwartz 2410 Views 2 Comments adrenalin, eyes scanning, fight or flight

The quiet of equilibrium Shattered by a burst of adrenalin Blood redirected, only for what’s affected Miniature moments of evolutionary

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Deceived

January 22, 2017January 22, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2332 Views 6 Comments betrayal, deceived, footprints, poems, poetry, the seashore

When love seems so right, it hurts so much more. When things go wrong, where there was once a shining

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Neglect Leads to Loss

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 R J Schwartz 2881 Views 4 Comments break-up, loss, lost love, neglect, relationships

Time for me has come to an abrupt and chilling standstill My body wracked with an uncomfortable and nagging stiffness A

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The Pirate King

January 18, 2017 Rasma Raisters 3116 Views 8 Comments pirate king, pirate ships, poems, poetry

The pirate ship bounded over the waves, the jolly Rodger waving in the breeze. Out upon the deck, stepped the

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When there are no words

January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 EdF 2321 Views 4 Comments

When there are no words The coffee is cooler now than when I started in truth I love it that way

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C’est La Vie

January 14, 2017January 15, 2017 Rasma Raisters 3227 Views 14 Comments c'est la vie, life, love, poems, poetry

c’est la vie When life doesn’t, present you with roses, when

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Midnight Rains

January 14, 2017January 4, 2024 Anjana 1417 Views 18 Comments imaginary, memories, raindrops, realities, sun

Midnight Rains How they always come so entwined your memories and these midnight rains, the silvery threads that once fondled

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Symphony of Cracking – The Music of Winter

January 13, 2017January 4, 2024 R J Schwartz 2554 Views 9 Comments conductor, cracking, ice, poetry, sound, symphony, winter, winter poem

Plummeting temperatures ushering in a stillness without comparison Fluidity gives way to an opaque stiffness, often shimmering and beautiful Water

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Respect Your Elders

January 10, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 8896 Views 6 Comments boss, elders, know better, poem, respect, youth

Elders…a failing body does not mean a failing mind. Elders have experience…listen! How can my failing sight be seen, known

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Flying Blind – Nighttime Airlines

January 10, 2017January 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 2440 Views 9 Comments air travel, nighttime, plane

Twenty six thousand feet, or is it twenty seven thousand I’ve lost track, but it really doesn’t matter anymore Window

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Where Did It Go…this Life?

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1830 Views 6 Comments go, journey, memories, poem, present, time

Where Does Time Go… Relentless this mind to wander, to sift through the sands of past, the joys and what’s

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Collage

January 8, 2017January 25, 2017 Anjana 3471 Views 10 Comments death, farmer, food, hope, table

A collage of situations Somewhere, in an unfortunate corner of the world lying forsaken by nature’s merciful gestures, where

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Having To Face Reality

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2620 Views 10 Comments poems, poetry, reality

Reality can strike, sometimes much too close. You can be feeling, as if you’re living in a dream, then suddenly

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Thoughts about new year

January 3, 2017January 25, 2017 Anjana 3321 Views 14 Comments dreams, hope, ideals, lies, new year, tomorrows, truths

As a new year begins As another new year begins spreading before us its pristine, blank pages, that await to

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Love Hurts Deeply

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2524 Views 6 Comments broken hearts, love, poems, poetry

Love can be, the utmost feeling – send you reeling. Brings to mind, flowers bursting into bloom, warm and kissed

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Cold, Colder, Even Colder

January 2, 2017January 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 2541 Views 5 Comments Branchy, cold, winter

A cold wind comes creeping along the ridgeline Listen as it whistles through the ice covered branchy trees A powerful

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And So It Is…for a Knowing Mind

December 31, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1620 Views 2 Comments beauty, ignorance, knowing, poem, understand, wisdom

Who knows the sights I’ve seen, the miracles I’ve witnessed, the love that’s saved my mind, the beauteous potential of