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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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Grave Forgotten

January 24, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 4774 Views 7 Comments cemetery, Colorado, death, ghosts, graves forgotten, John Muir, Rocky Mountains

Graves Forgotten – Born and raised in the state of Colorado, I have spent considerable time wandering in the mountains

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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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Growing Kings: A Brother’s Plea

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 Paul Neglia 2144 Views 5 Comments brother, freedom, judge, knig, names, soldier, war

You think I do not want a simpleton’s way Father chose me to

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Temple of The Heart

January 23, 2017February 18, 2017 Surabhi Kaura 3769 Views 8 Comments heart, inspirational, light, spirituality, temple

Temple of the Heart In the consciousness of Samadhi’s Divine Light, Stilled thoughts twinkle like the stars o’erhead; I wonder…

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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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Message In A Bottle

January 21, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3739 Views 8 Comments looking for love, lost love, message in a bottle, romance

Message in a bottle – When a person is young love comes easy because you have never had your heart

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Old Houses – Where Have All The People Gone?

January 20, 2017June 14, 2020 Kurt James 2353 Views 8 Comments abandoned, Colorado, decay and death, dust in the wind, lonely, Old Houses

Old Houses – I love abandon old houses and their stories that they tell. Growing up in Colorado and

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A Visit To My Keyhole Garden in The Front Yard

January 19, 2017January 20, 2017 Jamie Lee Hamann 1996 Views 4 Comments earth, flowers, garden, keyhole garden

My Keyhole Garden The end of concrete sits the Petunias, a lavender petal points to the left from Maple freshly

Free Verse Poetry

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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Snow and Sun

January 18, 2017January 19, 2017 Paul Neglia 4827 Views 10 Comments crystals, kiss, resplendent, snow, snow angels, snowy, sun

Freshly Fallen Snow Way tucked away beyond the eyes The

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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

Free Verse Poetry

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

Ode Poetry

Remembrance

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 Paul Neglia 2799 Views 9 Comments darkness, death, dirge, ebbs, elegy, mourn, soul

Remembrance, Beauty Sublime Supinely you laid a victim to time ‘til the trumpet keeper blows his trumpet clear A

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White Rock Road

January 16, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3147 Views 16 Comments

White Rock Road and I Still Believe In Magic. I was born in 1960 in Denver, Colorado. The story of

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All I See Before Me….Infinity

January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1825 Views 2 Comments age, dreams, gaze, humbled, infinity, poem

Infinity and me… Vanquished light recedes to night with a whimper, and star-crossed those beneath, gazing into the firmament, their

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

No Words to Say, Just Be

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2693 Views 10 Comments beauty, breeze, gloaming, night, poem, words

A dexterous touch, flesh tingling from the cool rush of air, as day falls slowly and shadows elongate, herald the

Ode Poetry

Echoes of the Dead Rising…who turned that light on?

January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 7102 Views 6 Comments bright, inconvenience, morning light, poem, rising, slumber lost

An Ode to Morn Rising… Do I choose the refracting light that infuses my dark slumber, teasing my sentience to

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Windmills

January 14, 2017January 16, 2017 John Hansen 3680 Views 14 Comments breeze, death, life, nature, wind, windmills

Windmills My life’s at Nature’s mercy So I pray that she is kind. Each year is spinning ’round and

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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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More than Language

January 13, 2017May 31, 2018 Paul Neglia 2985 Views 23 Comments demons, heart, language, poetry, right, thoughts, verses, wrong

More Than Language It’s more a cadence than a march Your knees will bend your feet will arch Your