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All is Calm
. Contemplative / . Peaceful / Metrical / Rhyme

All is Calm

Though headlines clamor, voices blare and bitter arguments abound in every fearful sector where the chaos of the world is found, each hibernating embryo refuses to restrain its flow of …

 calm / Christmas / Mary Boren / peace / snow
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Heaven Blessed
Metrical / Rhyme / Sentiment

Heaven Blessed

Let me tender such devotion for the gift of happiness,With this heaven sent emotion I am well and truly blessed. For the joy of all my senses I am humbled …

 gratitude / Tim Parry
Continue reading ... "Heaven Blessed"
I went to look for poetry
.Observant / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

I went to look for poetry

I went to look for poetrybeneath the midnight moonout where the potholes pocked the road,and spotted a raccoon. He’d torn a dumpster open widelike caught and gutted prey,and two green …

 character / Gareth Marks / old man / raccoon
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I heard the dirge in the mists
. Mystical / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme

I heard the dirge in the mists

The mists lay soft on the valleyan emptiness shrouded and stillthe chill in the air went through meas a tune echoed over the hills My heart clenched in deep trepidationas …

 Kathryn Alley / November
Continue reading ... "I heard the dirge in the mists"
Entourage
. Contemplative / Free Verse

Entourage

I could let them all go, the letters pencilshands and scheming numerals;only they and I would feel a difference.I would still sit here alone late with waterearly with coffee, wrestling …

 Evan Fowler / inner peace / monkey mind
Continue reading ... "Entourage"

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