Poetry

"I never started a poem whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." - Robert Frost

SONGS ARE IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US IN LIFE!
Walker Ikard

SONGS ARE IMPORTANT

The world needs great songs that present messages for people to hear. People are searching for so many things in life. A songwriter can always

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Exhibition

Buy parts for sale; Arms and livers and bones and hair. Buy them as your own, They’re yours to pretend to tell the tale. Take

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Brush the scars away.

Watching you brush out your knots From your long beautiful hair that I love to run my fingers through Starts me thinking wouldn’t it be

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We're going to all travel the road of life!
Walker Ikard

DIFFERENT ROADS

We all travel different roads in life. We can turn left, or we can turn right. But we will travel some road in life. It

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Faith
Mollie Lyon

Another Gray December Day

Another gray December day I don’t blame her these last years for not wanting to stay We are left with tears. A December year of

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age
Victoria Mineva

Quiet Applauds

Realization of age Between the false And pretty lies I found myself In neverending sorrow That brought me back To memories and lines I drew

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darkpoetry
Brittany Johnson

The House That Never Sleeps

I’ve been here before In the house that never sleeps It used to sit at the end of a dirt road Sick and alone Kids

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choices
Victoria Mineva

Nostalgy

Nostalgy is a matter Of letting something go It happens when you know The truth unspoken You do not fit there anymore In house, or

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People will never steal your education from YOU!
Walker Ikard

PEOPLE WON’T STEAL THIS FROM YOU

Some people may try to steal your money. Some people may try to steal your car. Also, some people might try to steal your land,

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Alone
Victoria Mineva

The Savior

There was a time when I was the savior Of lost in addiction, beautiful souls But today, I am not because I feel cold By

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Experience
Victoria Mineva

Is Not That Exactly It Seems

Life is a gamble that we do not always win. I looked for something, then left it in between. Maniac stories for the topic of

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Limericks

Here are some limericks for your entertainment… ——————————————————- The elite work hard and they toil, To pass off as other than a boil, lie as

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Life happens to all of us!
Walker Ikard

MEANING OF LIFE

You start out young. You end up old. Where did all the time go? You spend all your money. You waste all your time. Then

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OUTLAWS ARE ALWAYS OUTLAWS!
Walker Ikard

OUTLAWS BURNED THE BARN DOWN

Jesse James is done dead and gone. But other outlaws have come along. Wanted posters are all over town. Little old ladies have their shades

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The passage of time is something that can't be stopped by anyone!
Walker Ikard

TIME

Where was I when you passed by? I never seem to recall. Did I smile? I was only a child. You were time, and I

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Walker Ikard

THINKING ABOUT YOU

When you first left me, I thought we were really through. But darling, I didn’t know I’d cry a river over you. There is not

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Untethered

I walk a shore,Stretching for miles ahead,But with a start and end. I leave footprints behind,And step into ones before me,Walking straight with no bend.

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Potential Energy

My thoughts are scattered like streaks of lightning. Nothing flows naturally. Will I reach my goals without confusion? I am more than desires and dreams.

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Walker Ikard

UNDERSTANDING THINGS IN LIFE

People don’t understand things the same way. People have different educational backgrounds, and they come from different environments. They have lived different lives. Also, they

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Love
Devyn Beal

On That Fateful Day

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A poem about soulmates On that fateful day Searching the shadows I cannot wait to see you In your shining hue beaming like a floodlight

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Christmas
TzeLin Sam

A Tropical, Atypical Christmas

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There is no snow but plenty of ribbons and bows, There is no real tree but no less Christmassy, There is no need for a

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child development
This Life's Illusions

Baby Talk

The excitement of watching and waiting for a child to speak – the patiently impatient ears and heart – the thrill of their first ‘almost’

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Poem
This Life's Illusions

To You, My Muse

Are you visited by your muse, or is she your constant companion? What form does she take? Do you know her appearance or her voice?

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believe
Amy Christie

Heart Garden

In my heart, a garden grows, A verdant oasis, wild and unhurried. Where love and joy abide, And sorrow does not reside. *** The petals

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End
Andrey Lukyanov

(Rhyme Entertainly series) Idly Passing

Sorry, no worries, it’s just that, I’m doing someone else’s job, Serving someone else’s time, Sleeping in someone else’s bed, Playing someone else’s tune, Taking

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emotions
Victoria Mineva

Daydreaming

It was a day like every other I got so many high hopes I know I shouldn’t. I looked at the distant star, That seems

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Amour
Victoria Mineva

Deserted love

I looked at his picture It was not so long ago I dreamed of Christmas He wouldn’t let me go Unfortunately, happened That I stood

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All people want to live a good life!
Walker Ikard

LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT 

How do you live a good life? People will have many different answers on how to live a good life. But life is really what

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You can make good money as a songwriter!
Walker Ikard

MAKING MONEY AS A SONGWRITER

Do you want to be a songwriter in the music business? Do you want to make money as a songwriter? First, you will need to

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acrostic poetry
John Kenmuir

Intuition

   initio: from the beginning tit: a small songbird        nun: belonging to no one                

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identity
Heather Martin

Reignite Self 

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There is an effortlessness to who you are that you cannot capture. No hacks or morning routines — no filter or chant will call it

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The Cream

The cream does not always rise, It sinks and swims and struggles, Gurgling and gulping its juices, Straining to breathe and bathe, In the fresh

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city
Victoria Mineva

Life in a Phantom city

Phantoms are known As the most handsome stealers To live on their own Blazing realities Or men that come for The most beautiful jewelry That

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Poem
Gerald Washington

Little Children Of Uvalde

Little ones No one expected your short lives to end by the gun You were daughters and sons Trying to play and learn Only for

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Life
Victoria Mineva

Lies or Having Fun?

Are you lying to me or just having fun? That is something that never existed. I used to see you as my shining sun. Are

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fantasy
Andrey Lukyanov

(P.S. poetry series) Opal

Getting drunk on the bottle of wine to keep oneself relaxed, contact the good old feeling, intact with the meaning, maneuvering, thru the poisoned sumac,

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creative writing
Devyn Beal

Take Care of Yourself 

Be patient with me says the soul It’s not easily broken but it isn’t Without fragility Be compassionate with me says the spirit I come

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How To Be A Speck

Step 1: This is all you’ll have, get, and will never keep. Step 2: React how you must; laugh, swear, hurt, or weep. Step 3:

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Just One More Please

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When we were young we were old, We always did what we were told. We should have been, What only now we have seen. We

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#achievement
Victoria Mineva

Pride

While having a high fever Still, I want to rhyme Stanzas are my believers For prejudice and pride Poems are my achievement I am giving

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Party

At the dinner party, You look at me, As if you love me, But I don’t know you, Not anymore. Who is this woman, So

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The Cosmology of Kindness 

I Entangled photons whispered their wonder to one another,each image a superposition of magic and matter. They moulded the possibility of our meeting,as uncertainty became

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Italy
Crystal Walker

I Left My Heart in Italy

An ode to ‘La Dolce Vita’ Photo by Pixabay from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/boats-and-body-of-water-417344/ I needed an escape,a refuge, and a retreat.I didn’t know what to dobecause

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Christmas
James Jordan

Cold and Alone on Christmas Day

 The emptiness of blank concrete and steel kept cold with a freezing wind chill shows the contrast of the merriment of the season. I wouldn’t

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Arrow
Victoria Mineva

Inflaming arrow

Tonight I checked your messages on my phone It feels I was like an eager moron That looks for older passion in the sorrow I

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How long Can Hatred Last?

Will you be buried with your hate? The way the Egyptians were wrapped and placed, among their gold and cats, Will you lie in the

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Poetry
Réven W

fake s[i]mile – 7.29.20

Teeth glistening Look like a smile but Just a slim grimace shows My health and wealth Both deteriorate and determine My attitude I am not

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bag
Andrey Lukyanov

Injected Verdict

There’s a reason why life ends, it’s beyond us, it transcends, and it’s simply thus, some law and the rule of Veritas Aequitas. Let’s grant

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Love
Neha Radharapu

Crossing the road again

It’s simple.I start crossing the streeton my own and before that, I’m supposed to look left andright andleft again.I take one step forward andno step

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Poem
Gerald Washington

The Noises At Night

I didn’t sleep at all last night, it depresses me If only my brain could rest and let me be Strong noises from another person

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Oisin’s Lament

Can I stay, And die amongst the forgotten? Can I live my seconds, Amongst the decayed and rotten? There is no place for me, Where

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animals
Victoria Mineva

Threesome

When I grow old Lady without stats I will own Three dogs Three cats And a home Husky  Beautiful as a painted glass German Shepherd

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Life
This Life's Illusions

Sandstorm

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I offer you this poem in response to writing prompt # 6.   It describes various effects of local sandstorms, such as the one in this

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age
Victoria Mineva

More

Inspired by: Inner Beauty Lie on my WattPad  poems collection “Moment of Silence” I am closer to forty With one cycle, more Last year I

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Safe with me.

The moment you gave in I felt your love crashing into me The way it made me feel inside The only word is ecstasy The

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Her County

Along dark rolling hills,Stained in battle kills,Stand men begging “stop”,As shadows swallow grain crop;A woman stares them down. They mockingly jeered before,She accepted their insulting

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dark
Saim Khurshid

DON’T FEAR

This poem is more of a lullabye from a scene within my Novel—Diaries of the Missing Children: Carsa Rosain Cecil ——————- Don’t fear the dark   Don’t fear

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“The Outlier”

You are not just some dot on a scatterplot. You rise above the others. I admire you. I cannot touch you, yet I bask in

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banding
Andrey Lukyanov

(P.S. poetry series) Oven

Culture takes even, stakes driven, fruits ripen since last evening, heat is headed for the north, but it’s bigger weight of permission to complete rather

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butterfly
Victoria Mineva

Rebirth

Time flew away Silently in the moments Of waiting for you, my Love. I do not want you to stay It is not some win

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changes
Victoria Mineva

Until when I hide?

Living in secret Until when I hide? Between the excuses Of having no time Or maybe was the dearest Blindside of mine Saving the merit

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grief
This Life's Illusions

Love Remains

So many of us know the pain of losing a loved one. I write in empathy with you.  Whilst everyone’s hurt is different, that we

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Innards

Jumbling and rattling in the box, A jigsaw of you in your head, A life spent sorting; combining, A life spent stressed before you’re dead.

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#phoenix
Victoria Mineva

Or Not?

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Phoenix, they say, will rise Sometimes it happens. Or not? I love using metaphor To escape my emotion of broke Because I feel lonely And

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haiku
Victoria Mineva

The Nile

Pistol – cold and precise Handkerchief – blood and tender Lovers swapped deadly eternity on the Nile. Pistol photo by Unsplash *** Inspired by “Death

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#ballet
Julia Marsiglio

En Pointe

Sometimes Itoe the line en pointejust before leapfrogging overand then I findthat my wanderingmind traces constellationsfrom the momentsthat brought me downfloored and unmade meand I’ve

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nonet
TzeLin Sam

We Had Each Other

A Nonet — We were teenagers when we first met, He came up to me and said “Hi”. I was drawn into his world, Charmed

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Children
This Life's Illusions

Footnote

A light-hearted, playful poem and a reminder of one of the joys of having young children around!  This is the tale ofWhere you have been;It’s

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age
Victoria Mineva

Sometimes

Sometimes I have a dream To be in an epic love story Not in my age, it seems I am amazed of amour’s glory That

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Envy Of Death

I both loathe and love the great; They cheat me by living far longer than I will allow. It means I must come back for

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All Stories
Maryandra Barker

Idlendipity 

(Photo Cover Credit- Myself) —– When I wander alongside an idle sea, Alone but for myself and me, I rejoice in small serendipities, And only

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Deadly Love

Kill me slowly with your concern Kill me gently with your kindness Rip my heart to pieces with your love Make the pain light with

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acrostic poem
TzeLin Sam

Enchanting 

An Acrostic Poem Everyone would be surprised if they knew about us, Neither of us had the power to stop it. Charming, kind, warm and

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Walker Ikard

WHO ARE THE OUTLAWS?

Who are the outlaws in society today? Look around yourself in the world every day. What do you see? You can always tell who the

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Bestie
Victoria Mineva

Bestie

She found out she was his bestie A world’s story of old The enamored friend accepts it When there is one-sided love Because she is

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flowers
This Life's Illusions

Iris

*** Nature is so inspirational. Often I find photos online from some very talented people whose eye allows them to capture something so touching with

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falling

I think summers should come every five years. I need to live in the diamond snowbank of your smile and scorch every blue dawn gaze into

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Dawns Christmas

by author I’m not having a Martha Christmas time. But I’m not much of a Mary either. I’m reminded on a Sunday -Emmanuel- God with

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revenge
Director Aldmann

A Seagull’s Cry

With swords drawnThey dance around the point.Once friends, now enemiesOne begins to speak. “You never needed second chances,But while I was winning breaking lancesYou were

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Elitism

It seems like the world’s gone mad, but that’s not exactly true, it’s the elite that made it bad, and their target is you. The

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accident
Gerald Washington

The Lost Poem

Oh no! What have I done? My happiness has been stung By a major error There’s nothing in my mind except terror It ruined a

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