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Category: . Mystical
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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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. 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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. Mystical / Metrical
Liminal Space of Dawn

Liminal Space of Dawn

We watch the fading back of darkness edge / sway and feel the shrinking chill on flesh /which lies-or is it mouths?- in cooling air; / averse to moving from our rumpled bed.

 #aubade #blank verse sonnet #morning light #Nancy Sobanik
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. Contemplative / . Mystical / . Peaceful / Free Verse / Life
Pietra Dura

Pietra Dura

Here is the closed blue eyelid of time you touch to make sure, to see. Through a flat window of …

 #Evan Fowler #metaphor #stone art #timeless beauty #trust
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. Mystical / . Pensive / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
[An Enigmatic Loneliness]

[An Enigmatic Loneliness]

An enigmatic loneliness Has nestled on my porch— A mottle-feathered camouflage Against his stony berth. At first, I thought ‘twas …

 #Cheryl L. Abbott #death #Emily Dickinson #loneliness #shadow
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. Mystical / . Peaceful / Metrical / Rhyme
Life Could Be a Dream

Life Could Be a Dream

I saw before me hordes of players of an ancient game, The rules of which I could not fathom, no …

 #game of life #Glen Scott #inner peace #mystery #procession of souls
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. Contemplative / . Mystical / . Pensive / Despair / Legend / Metrical / Rhyme
The Angels Weep for Us

The Angels Weep for Us

Above us, where span the lactescent arcades of the sky, Where azure and pearl frame the cloud-swelling meadows on high, …

 #2020 #abandonment #heaven #hopeless #sadness #silence #surreal #Tony Longo
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