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Title: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Artist: John William Waterhouse
Year: 1909
Location: Private Collection
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J Ann Crowder

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Merlin In French Quarter
Nelson D Reyes

Merlin In French Quarter

by Nelson D Reyes

Merlin In French Quarter
Continual feast my seventy fifth
Not many you see beyond sept-decen
With family once voodooville twice
Remarkable birthday celebration tr


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When We Grow Old
Vic

When We Grow Old

by Vic

When we grow old, how I wish you
You would love me just the same, p
When my head turns gray, you won’t
To stroke my thinning hair as you
You’ll hold my hand, gazing at the


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Chris Gaither

Eight Rhymes with Hate

by Chris Gaither

It took years of therapy
but the octopus finally arrived at
that the reason she didn’t like th
was because they were so much alik


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March to Oblivion
Vic

March to Oblivion

by Vic

And so it goes,
life’s ceaseless march
to oblivion...
seemingly uninterrupted,
steadily gaining steam.


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Years Ahead
Robert L. Martin

Years Ahead

by Robert L. Martin

Years Ahead
Little girl, up ahead road so smoo
Moving swiftly into life’s journey
Into years when time is like winte
When rudiments are past and music


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Heaven

horizons

by Heaven

Truthfully what I’m looking for d
in what I am given
what I want is sitting on the ledg
and I can’t quite make it there
the horizon is the kiss between th


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ECZ

SORRY

by ECZ

Despite of a small Heart
The love I do was precious
But you didn’t realized;
There is still yo’ name,
your name in my heart;


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R. A. Queiroz

Invisible boy

by R. A. Queiroz

On second thought, there should be
Ronnie


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Mary Oliver

Poem

by Mary Oliver

The spirit
likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers,
ten toes,
shoulders, and all the rest


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Earth Beyond
Nelson D Reyes

Earth Beyond

by Nelson D Reyes

Earth Beyond
Let there be Light
Dead into life empty into full hel
Grains of sand into towers of moun
Formless unknown unknown darkness


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ECZ

BORN TO DIE

by ECZ

Already, The time of birth
and The time of death
were fixed;But also
They comes
With full of dreams


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Habitation
Margaret Atwood

Habitation

by Margaret Atwood

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
The edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert


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The Singer
Robert L. Martin

The Singer

by Robert L. Martin

The Singer
The first time I tried to sing th


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Super Black Moon Dance
Nelson D Reyes

Super Black Moon Dance

by Nelson D Reyes

Super Black Moon Dance
Black Solar Sky Eve
And then there is a Black Moon
A New Moon sky mirage on a hot su
Unseen sunlight washed into the ha


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Spring Chameleons
Nelson D Reyes

Spring Chameleons

by Nelson D Reyes

Spring Chameleons
Ode To Spring
. . .
Bountiful garden
Lilac Sunday monarch shrubs


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Troubled Soul
Barb Clarke

Troubled Soul

by Barb Clarke

Misty fog floating through
bare trees.
Cold waves of wind
coarse through the woods
whistling as they go


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ECZ

PAIN IS THE RAIN

by ECZ

Pain is the rain
So don’t worry
Ya’ll get yo’ beautiful life
Again and again ;
Once,


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Winged Fire
Nelson D Reyes

Winged Fire

by Nelson D Reyes

Winged Fire
Alitaptap
Sweet loud noises of longing the c
The air pregnant with love trees s
Songs filtered to soothing cello s


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Le Sacre du Printemp
Robert L. Martin

Le Sacre du Printemp

by Robert L. Martin

Le Sacre du Printemps
Haunting theme you come alive
My sleeping passion you so revive
Primal screams come from the east
Searing breath I fear the beast


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Day Off
Nelson D Reyes

Day Off

by Nelson D Reyes

Day Off
I will do the dishes
I will set the table
Cook your favorite dishes
Carnation bouquet and lace


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Naked Sky Dance
Nelson D Reyes

Naked Sky Dance

by Nelson D Reyes

Naked Sky Dance
A Galactic Milonga
Here comes the black new Moon
Facing the Sun from its usual sid
Smiley face to Earth unblinking n


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Mona Lisa
Sinethemba Nyawose

Mona Lisa

by Sinethemba Nyawose

Been watching you, watching you sm
It’s been a long, lonely and beaut
Soon as you caught me staring you
You knew I’d been taken by you
You knew a compliment was due


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Brown Hawk
Barb Clarke

Brown Hawk

by Barb Clarke

Brown hawk with
spotted tail,
soaring on the wind,
balancing like a sail.
Your piercing cry


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Barb Clarke

IT'S A GAMBLE

by Barb Clarke

Life is not fair at times...
But of course things
Change quickly down the line,
We are born into a
No guarantee world.


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ECZ

BEAUTY MAKE ME COLD

by ECZ

No longer
The rainbow can
Pervade my heart
With full of joy;
No longer


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Bikini Smiles
Nelson D Reyes

Bikini Smiles

by Nelson D Reyes

Bikini Smiles
On The Boardwalk
Fiery horizon clouds hover the Su
Sandy sandals worn shades flipped
Now more relaxed walking than sitt


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The Frog and The Turtle
Nelson D Reyes

The Frog and The Turtle

by Nelson D Reyes

The Frog and The Turtle
A Pristine Refuge
There is a bull frog on top of the
That is on a rock island in the mi
That meanders toward and under the


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Imrogue

In The Process Of Things

by Imrogue

Some people say that marriage is a
Some people choose to hold on...
Some people choose to forego...
And in the process of things,
people forget what they’re meant t


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First Light
Vic

First Light

by Vic

First light, first sign that tomor
That we’ll savor the passing of an
To see and touch all those that we
And smell the many blossoms along
Incipient daylight, omen of the fu


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williamsji

Face to Face...

by williamsji

I love, my own ultimate death;
For my body longs for it by birth;
Sunny days; starry nights pass by;
Forthcoming days, will say good by
Sweep me away like a heavy wave;


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Lord Byron

A Fragment: When, to Their Airy Hall

by Lord Byron

When, to their airy hall, my fathe
Shall call my spirit, joyful in th
When, poised upon the gale, my for
Or, dark in mist, descend the moun
Oh! may my shade behold no sculptu


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Dictate (The Dictator)
C.R.Stanger

Dictate (The Dictator)

by C.R.Stanger

These are the days we will not for
Days where we must let
The power pull us under
The fever of passion set us afloat
To fear is to lack authority


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A Beautiful Country
Nelson D Reyes

A Beautiful Country

by Nelson D Reyes

US of A Presidential Primaries -
This poem is absolutely non-partis
Picture shot down in Bourbon Stre
A Beautiful Country
Paradise?


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Touting America Great Again
Nelson D Reyes

Touting America Great Again

by Nelson D Reyes

Touting America Great Again
godblessamerica
Breathe in breathe out
A cry-in... A refuge... Safety pi
Media vigorously attacked Trump


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At The Doors Await
Nelson D Reyes

At The Doors Await

by Nelson D Reyes

At The Doors Await
Bullfrogs croaking in deep dark si
Courting the weeds clawed in the g
Cold tombs as long shadows drape t
Stiff fallow autumn grass burial g


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The Educator
Robert L. Martin

The Educator

by Robert L. Martin

Pillars of soft green emeralds ris
Like solidified columns of sweet i
From darkness, moving into the lig
Night into day, obscurity into pro
Mother Nature’s busy network neve


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