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  • More Short Poems I Like
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    This is intended as a further collection, in no particular order, of the short poems that I have liked. Their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment. For those who dip into it, I am hoping with this personal anthology to convey something of the pleasure poetry has for so long given me. Lik...

  • Moonswept
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    This is a follow on collection from Windswept. In this collection I will examine the concept of love from a more ethereal perspective.

  • ALL THIS WAY
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    A Collection of Haiku and Senryu

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  • LoveVerse
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    Poetry on love and relationship.

  • Chiaroscuro
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    In-between black and white. A style of painting, drawing, etc. using only light and shade to achieve the effect of a third dimension.

  • Short Poems I Like
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    * There is an alphabetical index at the end (including authors). This is intended as an extending collection, in no particular order*, of the many short poems that I have liked. Their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment. For those who dip into it, I am hoping with this personal antholog...

  • Second Wind
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    Highest rank #12 in Poetry Second Wind is an eclectic collection of mostly light hearted poems but often has a serious message and takes the occasional side swipe at politicians and those in power.

  • A Few Poems About Love And A Right Bastard
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    A collection of poems about love and hate and reading and complaining.

  • Carrying The Sunrise
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    A Collection of My Haiku and Senryu. Seasonal information used with permission.

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  • Gonna Love You All Night (if it takes all day)
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    Romeo's sweetheart takes full advantage of his unusual enthusiasm for chores.

  • Coalescence
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    I am attempting to branch out and free myself from the constraints imposed by the label 'war poet'. I once wrote a poem (sadly lost) which voiced my frustration at my apparent inability to write about anything other than combat and its aftermath. Now I am retired from the military, it's time to move on. So here goes...

  • Poems That Don't Fit
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    Poems that seem to stand alone

  • Haiku #Wattys2015
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    Haiku pertaining to beautiful nature. #Wattys2015

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  • Poems from the Tower (WP Official Pocket Poetry List)
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    I used to write poetry a long time ago. Poems from the Tower is compendium of dreams of love, sorrow and despair. Fantasy and reality converge in these verses to create this collection of poetry, in my attempt to purge away some feelings.

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  • Haiku Dreaming
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  • Dante's Children
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    This is a story about how past sins will never go away.

  • Where I Have Been Wandering
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    Poetry on nature and experience

  • Still Waters
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    A collection of metered poems of life, death and everything in between.

  • Poesy
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    Poesy - Poems, some that are deeply romantic, some are a bit sexual, too. : )

  • Ethereal
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  • Consciousness vs. Sub-consciousness
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    This is based on MRI reading that show the brain forms the our words six to seven seconds before we actually say them, meaning the subconsciousness is aware of what we are going to say before it happens. This poem takes that fact and questions what brain is real living in the now, and which is reacting to the stimulu...

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  • Little Spider
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    Quantum Mechanics meets the itsy-bitsy spider, and the universe is a stage.

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  • The Kiss
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    "Is not a kiss, the very autograph of Love?"

  • Passages
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    Exploring pathways of the creative journey.

  • Gotta Know Who You Are
    397 50 1

    A young man in a nightclub takes his best shot.

  • Mind Shadows ©
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    In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood-- A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. From--"In a Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

  • There Will Never Be a Home
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    Resigned to drift ~ a lyrical lament.