Their Last Rainbow
/A poem depicting one's feelings during a terminal illness…
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…sad, emptiness engulfs her heart,
raindrops touch her cheeks,
the storm gains…
By Brenda Arledge
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Faded Passion
/…I was zealous about painting
Untiringly I drew lines and shapes
To create my dreams
I played with colors and…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MorePassion
/Like all forms of energy, passion works best under restraint.
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…sort of emotion. It brings glory and ruin without discrimination. The word, passio, meant suffering in its original Latin form. It still means suffering in the Christian liturgy of The Passion of the Christ. Suffering remains implicit in any sort of passion. What takes you up can also pull you…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreSentimental Lines for Rose
/A poem written in anapestic trimeter.
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…fair heavenly Rose! How I sigh,
and sigh all the more! to smell your scent
and fresh bouquet, before I soon…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreI Feel the Temperature’s a-Rising
/Anticipation, imagination, makes me salivate…
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...I wait for my date,
here’s what I contemplate:
is it frilly or…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreA Little Drop of Water
/…little drop of water
Evoke imagine of the creatures
A little drop of water
Refresh trees…
By Ananta Kumar Singh
Read MoreC'est Dommage
/Words aren't enough to describe those…
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…poets sing. Over and over they remind us that Cupid’s arrow pierces the heart. And we say, “Yes, how true”, yet something in us is not completely persuaded. Only the blood flowing from our very own wound will make us really…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MorePoet's Passion
/One view on the passions which animate a poet
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…like to think that it’s not true:
There’s nothing new under the sun.
But even if there is no…
By Russell Willis
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