• Was born with eyes wide open
    To be prepared for the truth
    Not wanting to offend
    What had happened on the roof

    Holding pasts in a box
    We crawl, we stand, then walk
    Rusty keys enter locks
    Speaking words before caught

    Streams of tears without sound
    Lover’s end, rings withdrawn
    heartbeat forever unbound
    Dawn shows you were a p…Read More

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    • Okay, Fia 👌 Thanks for your submission and participation. You’ve made a very good start, with the basic format of a Sonnet down pat … 3 Quatrains and a Rhyming Couplet, and your rhyme-scheme is spot-on. In particular, your topic is interesting, with emotion depth, strong metaphorical imagery, and captivating ambiance that sets the mood. With a b…Read More

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    beautiful day

    Melancholy sits quietly and I with herwith a gentle remider to breathewe watch the cotton candy clouds flow byas we lie watching blue skiesa stark contast to our moodhurt on a colorful dayit seems wrong and out of placethe...

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    • Beautifully penned, Brenda. Excellent write my friend, really dig this one a lot. Appreciate you.

      Damian

      • hello dearest Damian good evening thank you graciously I’m happy you liked it ❤️

    • Lovely piece Brenda. The words are marvelously woven to create a delicate, fragile piece of poetry. xo

      • hi dearest Keith good evening thank you my friend I can be gentle when I want to ❤️

    • I wonder if that spider, doing what nature intended, ever said to himself – what a lovely day it is today?
      Nice poem, crimsin.

      • I don’t know dearest Tim I believe if we listen we can hear nature and the earth talk…it is at all possible…everything has a frequency thank you for your thoughts ❤️

    • Such a fine verse. I really needed that. TY & hugs+++

      • hello dearest Jim thank you graciously I know my metaphors are funny I’m happy it worked for you ❤️

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    Sperm Specter (Halloween Dead Life Series)

                 “The glass keeps us distant-yet so near, but so far  On this Halloween night-I’m sitting in her car,              “Red teeth stained as my jaws flexVampire sucking the foul blood from her discarded Kotex,            “Watching...

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    five part heart

    part one:All addictions start with suffering.All addictions end with suffering.part two:Addiction beginswhere silence screams.Voids filled withthe cold retreat of alcohol,tobacco’s dry whisper,the sharp thrill of cocaine,gambling’s pulse,screens pulsing past midnight,the slow hunger for shopping,the aching need for moisture from...

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    • hello dearest Benny my pain is just too great to live any other way I’ve really honestly tried more than once and I will never willingly put myself through that again… this is powerful if you have a better way to cope I am happy for you my friend ❤️

      • The root cause of all suffering is thinking.That’s where the answer lies.
        I coped by reading as much as I could about depression, grief,the way our minds work and trick is.The best material,without sounding religious,was in Buddhism.
        Happy to share some authors with you if you’re interested.
        🙏🙏🙏🙏

    • Intelligent poem here dude. Well said and well executed.

    • Brilliant work.

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    The Thunder of Flesh (Halloween Dead Life Series)

           “Many of the Army Rangers thought nervously ‘why me’As they implemented their training to control their anxiety,      “They were specially chosen, because they did not have childrenUnderstanding the knowledge alone would instantly end them,      “Legends say...

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