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Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Language of Blue
The Language of Blue

Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
 With muted voices
  In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass...

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Categories: blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Language of Creation
When I think of poetry
I think of a child manipulating
his first steps, the wobbly nature
of his strides~that confused, meandering
toddle, and then trip and fall –...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creation, god, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Language Barrier
I couldn’t understand the language she spoke,

at least not all of it,

but the emotion pouring past her lips, 

the tears in her eyes, her clenched...

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Categories: emotions, immigration, inspiration, language,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Speak My Language
Speak my language
A language of love I can understand
My heart language
Understand my need
My desire to be understood
Speak my language

Speak fluently to my heart
Words of Affirmation
I...

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Categories: language, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Feelings
FEELINGS


Feelings,
Masters of my destiny
Lords of my life
Strength of my dreams
Instigators of my actions

Burning fire you are 
Consuming my whole 
Being:
My heart
My mind 
My soul
My spirit,...

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Categories: imagination, introspection, language, universe,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: language, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Divine Poetry Vii
Oh, eternal Poetry:

Divine language of the Gods

Soul of my soul

Thought of my thought

Breath of my breath

Heart of my heart.

On your enchanting chest

Let me forever linger

For

Your...

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Categories: god, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are We Lost?
My heart may break, wreathed in somber silence.
Yet I care, I search for valleys of peace,
where rare black orchids bloom through violence,
for fallen leaves too...

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Categories: deep, language, muse,
Form: Dizain
Broken English
I love my broken English

Am in love with my broken English

Am honored to have two other languages

The ability to think from language to language is...

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Categories: language, africa, appreciation, birth, blessing,
Form: Bio
The Word
In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was...

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Categories: humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme
Rhythmic Perfection (Anapestic Trimeter)
There's a river that twists in the mind
that I plunder and ravish with sieves,
on crusades to the summit of rhyme
where my Phoenix of tropes and...

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Categories: language, imagination, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Dance With Me
Writing is dancing with words...
     a titillating tango with verbs delicious...
          a...

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Categories: language, poetry,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Let Me Translate
Let me translate
My love for you
From written.... to spoken....to touched
From syllable sensuality
To physical functionality
From verbal to nonverbal virtual reality

Or better yet
Let me translate them into...

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Categories: language, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Ludic
English is not a language 
one can ever get ahead of--
there are just too many words! 
Like 'ludic; for example: meaning
playful, in the sense of...

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Categories: humorous, language,
Form: Free verse

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