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Reality — Jeremy T Miles	All the hopes the dreams and the fantasies of Time gone by we have seen, knowing that each dream we dream can become REALITY there's so much potential...	514 views Rate it
I can touch the Stars. — A J C	I can touch the stars. I forget what we once had. It's still there, but when I look, it's nowhere to be found. As I search up and down and all around,...	508 views Rate it
Just Because I'm Naked — Stacey Powells	Just because I’m naked Gives you no right to stare I have my wrinkles, bumps and bruises I’m more than enough I’m more than aware Just because I’m...	508 views Rate it
The keeper of the Stone. — A J C	The shadows I see. It's a beautiful day as I walk through the town, stop by the old church, and look around. Gazing behind it, I discern an ordained...	507 views Rate it
We Are All Aborigines — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Often, at nighttime, I enter Jukurrpa world. The world of dreaming. Dreamers’ native residence; Eternal — uncreated. Like world of Tao, It appears...	495 views Rate it
Seeing the World Upside Down — Karl Constantine FOLKES	To me right is left. So don’t ask for directions. Too old to change now. Is it a common problem? It’s lasted eighty years now. To me left is right....	494 views Rate it
Elizabethan Prayer — Karl Constantine FOLKES	An olive branch passed. As token of unity. A peace offering. By monarch King Charles the Third. A Royal Dispensation. The House of Windsor. By...	492 views Rate it
A Poet’s Two Voices — Karl Constantine FOLKES	I lay in bed and think of this: A poet has two voices. The one he writes with gravitas, the other of his muse. The one expressed in syntax text, with...	480 views Rate it
Soldier — Steve Dupere	Redemption comes and goes for the broken, A life we lived of wounds unspoken. We’ve spilled our blood for another man’s glory. Now we live to tell our...	479 views Rate it
A Government House Divided — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A House divided Is what America is Government ruling By partisan politics “House divided cannot...	474 views Rate it
Why Choose to Die When You Can Fly — Cristina Kim	Why choose to die when you can fly? Little bird, try and spread your wings across the sky. Because after you’ve tried and there’s no one to guide, ...	473 views Rate it
A Child's Prayer — Margaret Betham-Edwards	God, make my life a little light Within the world to glow; A little flame that burneth bright Wherever I may...	471 views Rate it
Childhood living in is easy to do. — A J C	Childhood living is easy to do. All my days have come and gone, and all my memories end up in the past. My childhood living was easy to do but now it's...	462 views Rate it
A Woman Ribbed — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Ah, borne from man’s ribs. Woman — preemptively scorned. O daunting the pain! Man — dominating… A woman second fiddle. Nature offended! Ribbing...	461 views Rate it
Show me the way. — A J C	Show me the way. You have no fortune, and men disgrace you with their eyes. You kneel down and weep all alone, and heaven does not hear your cries. So...	458 views Rate it
A Road Less Traveled — Seth Haynes Warner	There was a time, It was many years ago, I found myself hitchhiking, Down a lonesome, barren road. This long desert highway, Was so desolate in...	454 views Rate it
The Rocking Chair — Betsy Wokersien Stephens	She gathers her thoughts as she rocks in the chair And stares out the window into the thin air Alone with the memories that dance in her mind The old...	453 views Rate it
Reason, Season, a Lifetime — A Reason, A Season. A lifetime	It is said people come into your life for a reason, a season, a lifetime. For those who have come and gone for a reason, I wish you a beautiful life. ...	447 views Rate it
My best friend Nicole. — A J C	My best friend Nicole. To my best friend Nicole: She is always there as I grow old. In my time of need, she never leaves or shuts the door. That's why...	440 views Rate it
A walk through the woods. — A J C	A walk through the woods. I took a path into the woods, with the branches crackling beneath my feet. The field opened up, and I saw a host of golden...	437 views Rate it
Eons of Nowness (EON) — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Time is relative At the north and the south poles Eyed by the viewer It’s observer-dependent In a global universe. It can be zero Or any other...	436 views Rate it
The owl in the tree. — A J C	The owl in the tree. I sit and listen under the tree and see the moon light and smell the moonlight air, I can hear a howl from an owl from nobody...	435 views Rate it
Waka Poetry Chiming — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Voices chanting sutras, Hymnic lyrical sutras. Other voices weaving, Weaving Kama sutras. Cherry blossoms ripening, Youthful eyes — delighting. ...	435 views Rate it
The shadows of people in the street. — A J C	The shadows of people. As I drift into my dreams, like the clouds floating by way up high in the sky, I can see a sea of people talking, but no one is...	431 views Rate it
Bird Of Paradise Sonnet — Marie Helen Abramyan	Bird of Paradise, feather among leaves, To the earthy soil I am bound and tied. Anchored by claws of roots and weighty sheaves, My spirit flies...	426 views Rate it

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