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Simply a Sonnet

Simply a Sonnet

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: One? Or is it two? Now let me think . …

 #E.B. Browning #fun #Glen Scott #sincere #sonnet #Valentine
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. Contemplative / Legend / Metrical / Rhyme
The Foil

The Foil

You ever wonder why old myths persist in elevating those the gods cast down? An easy trend to note; it …

 #Arthur Gee #Lucifer #mythology #Paradise Lost #Satan #sonnet
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. Happy / . Romantic / Love / Metrical / Rhyme
Beautiful Tonight

Beautiful Tonight

You made me feel so beautiful tonight. I wonder if the sea felt much like me  as silver stars caressed …

 #Michelle DeLoatch #sonnet
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. Contemplative / . Mystical / Metrical / Rhyme / Uncategorized
Sahara Night

Sahara Night

It’s thousands of years since the pyramids rose, capped with white marble to make the nights glow. Now silent and …

 #ancient mystery #pyramids #Susanne Donoghue
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. Nostalgic / . Pensive / . Romantic / Metrical
Memories of an Old Man in Exile

Memories of an Old Man in Exile

Who can bring me back the scent That was riding on the breeze By a fountain far away On an …

 #blank verse #loneliness #lost love #Sarah van der Pas
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. Mystical / Legend / Metrical / Nature
Spirits of the Bog

Spirits of the Bog

Beneath the twilight’s reddened glow
where silvered waters softly flow,
the maples flame against the reeds
and bullfrogs leap and hide in weeds.

 #metaphor #Nancy Sobanik
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. Contemplative / . Mystical / Free Verse / Mixed Form
Tassels of Eternity

Tassels of Eternity

Poets were asked to sit with this quote and write whatever it brought to mind. Three of the outstanding responses …

 #Abraham Joshua Heschel #Argus White #Arlice W. Davenport #humanity #quantum world #space #time #W. P. MacLeod
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.Expectant / Metrical / Rhyme
Paper Voyages

Paper Voyages

With cradle-hands I’ve hemmed-in worlds And fingertipped the pages And often I’ve been borne aloft In wind-filled sails of phrases …

 #books #celebration #Cheryl L. Abbott #Emily Dickinson #reading
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