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  • Column: Prayer request for stavykm at allpoetry
  • Column: Home From The Hospital at allpoetry
  • Column: Health Update at allpoetry
  • Sorrow's Hymn at allpoetry
    When life unfolds in dark drama and tears,
    the soul seeks the light that flames with hope,
  • Replenished at allpoetry
    Was of the sacred instructions,that admonish to the parents of mankindto replenish this mortal coil,but it was more than bringing new soulsinto the world’s valleys.
    For by faith they drank of the Holy Spirit’s fount,His moist
  • Road Signs at allpoetry
    Billboards of the conscience
    advertised along life’s path,
  • Mattresses at allpoetry
    What dreams are held in the youth’s mental cushions,
    those carpets of flight taken by frail and tender wings?
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  • For Sure at allpoetry
    Those science dudes kept claiming it was bad
    letting our engines idle for hours to keep heaters on
  • Margins at allpoetry
    What is the measure in space for mercy?
    Will luck always dangle a tether over soaring stones
  • Rain at allpoetry
    Pristine translucent beads falling from the sky,
    refreshing and cleansing in purest quintessence,
  • Croquet at allpoetry
    Her mallet was old
    the balls chipped and cracked,
  • That Taste Of Gold at allpoetry
    Pen dripping its ink
    across the challenge scroll,
  • Oh Those Lucky Charms at allpoetry
    On March Seventeenth
    shall the quest be made
  • Siamese at allpoetry
    Mind’s desire spine
    connecting twins
  • In Defense Of Boxes at allpoetry
    I need my box where I live,
    makes world so prefect,
  • More at allpoetry
    There is a hole in the stomach
    draining it of any contents,
  • Trash Compactors at allpoetry
    Compressed cravings
    forced into a vice grip
  • My Deliverer at allpoetry
    It never disappoints
    always faithful to rescue me
  • Clouds and Igloos at allpoetry
    To feel the wind and dream
    of drifting through the sky
  • Of Fate And Form at allpoetry
    Faith is a muscle in the soul,
    the more it is exercised
  • My Cottage at allpoetry
    My home is in my heart,
    its walls are not just a building,
  • Gig-o-matic at allpoetry
    Euphoria’s utopia is just a remote control away,
    a single button’s power
  • Aladdin’s Tear Drops at allpoetry
    Would you take a tear
    and let it be a genie
  • The Thought Process of a Writer at allpoetry
    It starts with a scream in the head,
    you finally can’t take some stupidity any longer,
  • Thunder at allpoetry
    In the chaos of self obsession’s circus
    and all the clamor from our vanity cymbals
  • Ruts at allpoetry
    It might be slimy and full of mud,
    keep swearing that it is stupid
  • Shuffling The Deck at allpoetry
    Hiding aces,
    bluffing with poker face plots,
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  • My Addiction at allpoetry
    I know my heart would stop beating
    if I ever couldn’t dream,
  • Choices at allpoetry
    It was a matter of following passion’s compass,
    between one who thought gold lied beneath the silt in the heart
  • My Regrets at allpoetry
    I’m desolate
    my deeds
  • Footsteps at allpoetry
    Window in the mind
    sees the world
  • Violins at allpoetry
    49 words

    Prompt: nostalgia
  • For Medicinal Purposes Only at allpoetry
    Strangers are a cancer,
    their ignorance is life threatening
  • Bleached at allpoetry
    Peroxide thoughts
    spilling over the mind’s textures,
  • Cataract at allpoetry
    Love burst the dam within my heart
    the fluids flowing in flushing tides
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  • Things To Ponder at allpoetry
    So the day isn’t a circus or a party,
    but it can still be fun,
  • My Oven at allpoetry
    I went shopping for an oven
    was told baking would cure all my problems,
  • Light at allpoetry
    Nuggets found in the beams
    shining forth in lives,
  • Yah All Come at allpoetry
    I would invite half the nuts and crazies in my life
    to a freeloader bash,
  • Shawn O'Grady at allpoetry
    There once was a man with a big shillelagh
    who went by the name Long Shawn O’Grady
  • Ouchless at allpoetry
    She spun her solutions for my life
    in rainbows shades of words,
  • Sliding at allpoetry
    Frozen hearts stiff from being harmed
    cling to a mental slope,
  • Just One Taste at allpoetry
    One lick
    of milky, soft flesh
  • Convictions at allpoetry
    Roots of values spread their cerebral tree
    standing against the elements,
  • Reuben at allpoetry
    He was of ordinary height and build,
    dark hair and black horned rimmed glasses,
  • My Precipice at allpoetry
    I teeter between dark and light,
    this world and the hereafter,
  • Censored at allpoetry
    Silence stimulates the false serenity,
    taping over liberty inspires such conformity,
  • Dressing Rooms at allpoetry
    I was told a new suit
    would make my life perfect,
  • Sorry For The Inconvenience at allpoetry
    Acid in my lemonade,
    scalded throat,
  • Gone at allpoetry
    It all happened so quickly,
    here I was a child of twelve,
  • The Deepest Space at allpoetry
    Within the craters of her heart,
    his love found a place to sparkle,
  • Psalms Of The Soul at allpoetry
    In the silence of our lips
    the psalm of the soul sings so soothingly and serene,
  • Pro Active at allpoetry
    Cranking out thermonuclear clones,
    making sure vaporized bodies
  • Boom Boxes at allpoetry
    The music roars as thunder in the air,
    rocking and vibrating the car,
  • Whirlwinds at allpoetry
    Zephyr tongues blasting their inferno,
    scorched hearts rage their response,
  • 1516 Elm Avenue at allpoetry
    He watched the bulldozer pushing down the walls,
    each part falling was like a piece of his heart dying,
  • Prompt Ideas at allpoetry
    Fingers of the heart
  • Maternal at allpoetry
    Her ageless venomous essence writhes in exquisite ecstasy,
    bathing in the shear and unbridled terror of pure blackness,
  • Wisdom at allpoetry
    I learned
    that love doesn’t pay bills
  • She Is My Summer at allpoetry
    She is my summer,
    the fiery illumination that only love’s sun can shine,
  • Poetic Kisses at allpoetry
    Lips that kiss with sweet sanguine notes
    upon the heart,
  • Lip Reading at allpoetry
    A single kiss
    silenced her questions' dialect,
  • My Departure at allpoetry
    Oh my lovelies
    how you did filled my days
  • That Special Night at allpoetry
    Ah the magic in the air
    when two hearts are on their honeymoon,
  • High Stakes at allpoetry
    Only risk
    your pocket’s cash,
  • The Last Laugh at allpoetry
    Edgar couldn’t stop smiling
    while dressed in his undertaker’s garb,
  • Mirrors at allpoetry
    I gazed into
    my soul’s looking glass,
  • My Chamber at allpoetry
    I shall take you deep withinthe chamber
    where no one else hastouched,
  • In The Eyes at allpoetry
    Tomorrow is a dawn
    seen in the eyes
  • Knock Outs at allpoetry
    Black eye words
    leaving their swollen affections
  • Mirror Murmurs at allpoetry
    Gazes looking deep into the recesses
    where the heart hides its secrets,
  • Delicate derivations at allpoetry
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  • Jewels at allpoetry
    Sparkling blue affections
    that shine even in the dark,
  • Weathermen at allpoetry
    How quickly you learn that doesn’t matter the color of the sky
    when those who enter you life have hate’s storm for a heart,
  • Downstairs at allpoetry
    In the cellar are kept the litter of impulse,
    trinkets of desire
  • Like A Wave at allpoetry
    Love crashed over us like a wave,
    powerful, chilling and so overwhelming,
  • Saved! at allpoetry
    Oh dear god, my buddy, Spike,
    has lost it for sure,
  • Glass Slippers at allpoetry
    Cinderella was a character in a tale
    or so I always assumed,
  • Revolving Thrones at allpoetry
    Today is a surreal game of mental musical chairs,
    picking the winner who gets the throne,
  • Everything I Know Was Your Words at allpoetry
    Her heart has spoken such mesmerizing eloquence,
    it has undone the impatience from my anxiety over loneliness,
  • Eight A.M. at allpoetry
    The morning brews a pot of atrabilious
    it filled every coffee cup
  • Knots at allpoetry
    Solutions in the mind,
    snarled by confusions,
  • Paradise at allpoetry
    I loved the placed I lived,
    gave everything a name,
  • The Colors Of A Smile at allpoetry
    When darkness comes as our night
    a friend brings an easel
  • There Was No Sound at allpoetry
    She learned that a heartbeat
    muffled agony’s drum,
  • Bull Fighting at allpoetry
    Matadors in skirts using them as capes,
    dare to taunt Mr. Testosterone’s stomping threats,
  • It’s Going To Be Alright at allpoetry
    It’s when the world gets far too cold
    and you feel alone without any hope,
  • You Can’t Get There From Here at allpoetry
    Southern Californians love our cars,
    we wiz past the buses and Metrolink train systems,
  • Star Soar at allpoetry
    Blur of silver streaks passing the capsule windows
    as hyperdrive is engaged and shift into time warp travel
  • Restraint at allpoetry
    In this hectic world of stress soaked lives
    the mind who can exercise restraint
  • Blessings at allpoetry
    Dear Lord, my brother and I
    give thanks for the mercy of this open window
  • They Must Statues at allpoetry
    Cloaked in silence
    because nobody’s ears care to hear
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  • Back To Nature at allpoetry
    Thought it was time
    to communion with pine,
  • The Anaheim Alps at allpoetry
    the Matterhorn attraction at Disneyland,
    standing in line with Mickey Mouse ear hat
  • Where Is It? at allpoetry
    You hold that precious object in your hand,
    it possesses that rich treasure you hunger so much to own,
  • Amazon Tears at allpoetry
    Nature’s fingers hacked with chainsaw buzzes
    severed trunks of life’s wooded umbrellas
  • My Neverland at allpoetry
    Peter Pan hides in my mirror
    and everyone is Captain Hook,
  • Take Me Or Leave Me at allpoetry
    I used to play the puppet,
    the mime and buffoon,
  • Slippers at allpoetry
    Nothing fits better
    than the slippers of the mind,
  • Slugs at allpoetry
    Don’t treat my heart as a vending machine
    you can feed your slugs of lies
  • In Honor Of The Lady Lesser at allpoetry
    In honor of the Lady Lesser
    supreme quill and fabulous dresser
  • Midnight’s Wayfarer at allpoetry
    Souls shiver from beyond
    as unheard screams echo
  • Ascension at allpoetry
    Mental timbers rise
    Spirals towards innerlight
  • My Welch’s Nectar at allpoetry
    Oh it was such rapture to me on a hot summer’s day
    to drink that cool icy grape bouquet
  • Cutting Board at allpoetry
    Tiles seriated from my life,
    the collage of cerebral ceramic shards,
  • Mercurial at allpoetry
    Inside within the deepest recesses
    swirls a starlight,
  • Echoes at allpoetry
    The music of the lips
    resounds in the mind,
  • Ways To Find Those Missing Smiles at allpoetry
    When those days come and make you feel down
    here’s a few thoughts
  • Gone Again at allpoetry
    I had a princess once,
    she lived in my head,
  • Pooper Scoopers at allpoetry
    If Cupid strikes a bitch or bastard
    in the butt,
  • Nobody's Listening at allpoetry
    I prepared to leap into life’s pool
    convinced I could swim,
  • Looking For Miracles at allpoetry
    Jennifer was tired of having a boring single life
    settling for pets from stores that had something wrong,
  • Droplets at allpoetry
    When life is held in a teardrop
    every memory drenched in sobs,
  • His Spring Fling at allpoetry
    Jules almost always screamed
    when the calendar page
  • Call Me Crazy at allpoetry
    They can place a mask upon my face
    for a clown with no mouth and blindfolded,
  • Life’s Carousel at allpoetry
    Time spins as a carousel
    never really seeming to get anywhere,
  • Shaded at allpoetry
    Distractions diffused of their flickers
    in the shade of towering thoughts
  • Umbrellas at allpoetry
    I keep my umbrella with me always,
    prepared for any storm that might come,
  • A Dream Come True at allpoetry
    In the enchanted land of dreams
    there once live
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  • Inhaled at allpoetry
    Fires in the heart
    rising as love’s incense,
  • My Nowhere Daze at allpoetry
    I am trapped in time
    between yesterday
  • black, white and color at allpoetry
    I though our love
    would be in headlines,
  • Don’t Cry Sista at allpoetry
    we are going to be okay,
    this barn is a long way,
  • The Touches Never Stop at allpoetry
    When hands you love
    have left for heaven
  • Half A Century at allpoetry
    After five decades on this planet
    there are certain things you learn
  • When Love Needs A Little Help at allpoetry
    Magic in the hearts
    stretching to the toes,
  • Hooked at allpoetry
    My and my second cousin
    twice removed,
  • Broken Rings at allpoetry
    Shattered shards of a picture frame,
    irreparable,
  • Provision at allpoetry
    Of divine wisp flows God’s love as mist,
    across the face and form of earth,
  • Card Shops at allpoetry
    I went to the Hallmark Store today,
    hoping to find love’s words
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  • Penitentiaries at allpoetry
    Clawing at bricks,
    barriers enslaving without a trial,
  • Sticker Patches at allpoetry
    Can’t get to the flowers
    without stepping on stickers,
  • Rivers at allpoetry
    Her waters seem so mesmerizing and spellbound,
    flowing from her immortal well, deep into the heart,
  • Pilots at allpoetry
    I wanted to be a pilot
    winged adventurer soaring by silver needle
  • Almost Lover at allpoetry
    Words stumbled over in futile reply
    can’t concentrate or think
  • C. O. D. at allpoetry
    Bill squirmed in his truck seat,
    his throbbing and bulging joy serpent
  • Wishes at allpoetry
    Resting under her enchanted celestial elm,
    the power of her fairy thoughts
  • Only The Moon Will Know at allpoetry
    Aracide soars beneath the lunar glow,
    the pain of his wounds numbed by the fire of his vengeful rage,remembering the ones slain in the sky,brothers so courageous and fierce,who died defending the planet.
  • Trib-elation at allpoetry
    Ever thought out writing poetryis like a tribble?Those verse cuddle in your brainjust can’t resist holding them and sharing them with others.
    Then they slowly breed,becoming out of control,oh my the way they can dominate your
  • Possible Background at allpoetry
    Trying this one out.
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  • Trout Vikings And A Melon Named Ralph at allpoetry
    I once fell in love with a psychic named Sara,
    it was meant to be because she saw it in a vision,
  • Ballet Slippers at allpoetry
    They were shoes made for the stage
    to wear while turning stunning pirouettes,
  • The Shiny Cure at allpoetry
    There really is a cure for “trophy-it is.”
    I know because I check on it once,
  • Love is a wind at allpoetry
    Love is a wind
    that comes without warning,
  • Majority Rule at allpoetry
    We scroll a parchment of noble visions
    claimed it will govern our lives,
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  • Wrestling at allpoetry
    Playful hands casually caressing each other,
    while she makes excuse that not enough time for a bout,
  • Embers at allpoetry
    Glows of glitter dropped during celebrations
    reveal the snaking paths
  • Waiting at allpoetry
    Peep hole only source of air,
    trapped in pine box without escape,
  • Deaf and Dumb at allpoetry
    I couldn’t hear the sounds any longer
    among the cackling and chattering,
  • It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood at allpoetry
    Oh its so perfect around the block,
    pristine lawns and cloned track homes,
  • My North Pole at allpoetry
    There is a Christmas tree in my head,
    with a toy shop run by dysfunctional elves
  • The Better Half at allpoetry
    Lascivious lip puckering prevarications
    sampling opposite sex candy for the right flavor,
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  • Ever at allpoetry
    Mind is suddenly able to harness it’s full potential,
    think so clearly with total recall,
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  • Just Friends at allpoetry
    Ms. Rudolph got so horny to be stuffed by reindeer hose,
    since her famous mate was flying around most of the year,
  • Hearts And Flowers at allpoetry
    Love is a rose,
    smelling sweet
  • The “After Picture” at allpoetry
    Edith wanted passion
    and romance
  • Helping Hands at allpoetry
    How come love for some
    requires the use of pain?
  • Exchanges at allpoetry
    I don’t recall life coming with a warranty,
    some guarantee my heart would never break
  • Suffocating at allpoetry
    Blood rises, body feels in a cocoon,
    tightening, constricting,
  • Sayonara at allpoetry
    I’m saying so long and not looking back,
    going to learn a new way to say it every day
  • When The Moon Has Two Faces at allpoetry
    I used to truly enjoy the night
    slip so happily between its sheets,
  • Where Did Our Dream Go? at allpoetry
    Where did our dream go,
    our nuptial shelter
  • Divine Cascades at allpoetry
    Upon the stones of souls,
    God’s Holy Spirit flows,endless and eternal,immersed in the waters of His lovewashing over the heart,faith gushing as an Oasis,it gives life to believer’s blossomsas a garden to express a Savior’s fa
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  • Playing In The Cemetery at allpoetry
    Got tired of my ancestral curse
    always rising from the grave,
  • Engulfed at allpoetry
    Peace hides from me in this sanctuary,
    ferns cloak the portraits I have feared,
  • Just as I am at allpoetry
    Just as I am
    saved by the blood of the Lamb.
  • The Celebration at allpoetry
    Where there’s an election, there’s a celebration
    of success yet to be born or achieved,
  • Those Perfect Bites at allpoetry
    There is this bakery
    round the corner
  • A Small Crown at allpoetry
    Wasn’t really a big problem,
    well didn’t start out that way,
  • What was that? at allpoetry
    My English professor
    was a walking dictionary
  • On Being Twelve at allpoetry
    Happy birthday Kassandra Anne
    hope being twelve
  • Before My Eyes at allpoetry
    Before my eyes
    the earth of my heart
  • Rooted at allpoetry
    Sole survivor among a forest,
    destroyed by axes
  • Her Strangling Raiment at allpoetry
    She wove a golden weave for me
    of stars to sing within my soul,
  • Defiance at allpoetry
    Endangered
    is the dirge of excuses
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  • Her Toast? at allpoetry
    A sip of wine, her tongue unwound its secrets, he passed out from learning his virgin bride had meant something else other than toilets when speaking of using Johns.
  • Reality at allpoetry
    My heart can’t lie about knife wounds,
    mind deny when buried
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  • Where Is Acme? at allpoetry
    How come Wild E Coyote
    never figured out
  • Room Service at allpoetry
    The warm bath in my hotel suite
    after that long jet ride did help,
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  • She Is My Ecstasy at allpoetry
    Oh how I can ‘t live
    without her,
  • Deeds at allpoetry
    She promised to be my passion’s realtor
    writing joy’s grand deed
  • Snow Balls at allpoetry
    Making pure ivory mounds
    for perfect thrills,
  • Slithering Rainbows at allpoetry
    My box is big enough
    to hold my every scream
  • Aloha Rings at allpoetry
    I got to visit Honolulu once,
    home of the Dole Pineapple Factory,
  • My Workout at allpoetry
    I went to the gym,
    vowing to only exercise,