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Toxic Love

Toxic Love

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and you have scorned me. Now you have to pay for all …

 #false heart #irony #Patricia Curtis #revenge #scorn #sonnet
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. Happy / Free Verse / Nature
High Summer

High Summer

Morning breaks and shattersFalls down around my eyesAnd stabs my darknessWith colored shards of awe Azure satin sky enfolds meAs …

 #amazement #bliss #clouds #enchantment #imagination #joy #morning #sky #Thomas Horton
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. Nostalgic / Love / Metrical
A Lock of Hair

A Lock of Hair

On the desk beside my chair, Pristinely pressed between the pages Of a volume old and rare, I keep a …

 #keepsake #memento #treasure #William Keller
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. Romantic / Metrical / Nature
The Thunderstorm

The Thunderstorm

Outside, the night is filled with mighty thunder; within, there dwells sweet harmony’s domain. And though bright lightning rips the …

 #gratitude #home #lightning #love #Mark Vincent #shelter #thunder
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. Nostalgic / Free Verse / Sentiment
The Appaloosa

The Appaloosa

Bred by Nez Perce tribes along the Palouse River, your ancestors gave you most-pleasing traits. You spotted horse, with the …

 #horse #Indian #Jerry Kemp #Native American
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. Peaceful / Free Verse / Sentiment
Rainy in Halesbury

Rainy in Halesbury

A vast stone Christmas tree of a building viewed from across a night time traffic island, points a yellow fingered …

 #David Totski #memories #reverie #Saturn V #space #time
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. Contemplative / Metrical / Nature
Chotje’s Vision

Chotje’s Vision

  Chotje’s Vision (Eyes of the Aloe) Did you watch a gibbous moon entangled in those starfish eyes of wise …

 #Kokerboom #Namaqua #quivertree #sonnet #WW Schwim
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. Contemplative / Free Verse / Life
The Road

The Road

Yungas Road, Bolivia, often called “the world’s most dangerous road.” The road beckoned them all — those with brave mottoes, …

 #choice #daunting #Katherine Michaels #path #risk #road #travel
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