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Premium Member I'M Just Getting Started
I'm just getting started to face this new adventure
To roll through the changes, release my fears to the wind
Also, to conquer something inside fighting my...

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Categories: started, blessing, inspirational, motivation, strength,
Form: Free verse
I'M Just Getting Started
i'm just getting started
unraveling the threads
of this tattered lonely soul
sewn so long ago

apparition's crooked hands
grapples the rusty needle
as she unsteadily threads the eye
...flashback to childhood...

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Categories: started, child, mother, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...

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Categories: started, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse



Premium Member I'M Just Getting Started
Born in Madrid, in fifty nine,
A military Kid, 3rd of 7 in the assembly line;
They named me Michael, but I answer to Wedge,
A Master Sergeant’s...

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Categories: started, age, career, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Started As Bliss Has Brought Death's Black Hand Poets Dedication Series
Part Two Of, Emily Dickinson, dedication series

(1.)

What Started As Bliss Has Brought Death's Black Hand
poets dedication series

As a tree full of crows looked down on...

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Categories: started, appreciation, art, creation, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Started With A Blank Canvas
Forces of the universe produce a wonderous array of spectacles afar. 
Monstrous planets rotating around just one lustrous inferno of a star. 

Myriads of illuminated...

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Categories: started, universe,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member It Started With a Blank Canvas
How endearing the innocence of life was,
When blissfully it started, with a blank canvas,
Cherishing in mother’s love and warmth,
Happy as can be, cuddled in loving...

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Categories: started, life, metaphor,
Form: Verse
It Started Off As Fun
It all started as fun like it usually does
Back when she was a great girl who'd always been beautifully loved
Way back before she'd been brutally...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: started, dark, death, death of
Form: Free verse
And He Started Caressing
And he started caressing her face
Between her two brows his fingers stopped momentarily
Causing her to open her dreamy eyes questionably
Demanding more tip-toeing of his fingers...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: started, romance,
Form: Abecedarian
I Started a Joke
I started a joke…

I started a joke to be laughed at, when I was young.
Now I am too old and I know that I was...

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Categories: started, dream, for her, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Started With A blank Canvas
It started with a blank canvas,
the world I should make but I am anxious.
Making fields of pretty flowers,
to the deep blue seas takes many hours.
Mountains...

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Categories: started, animal, bird, love, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M Just Getting Started
I'm Just Getting Started

I'm just getting started, though I'm not in control,
But I am all dressed and indubitably, very well-composed,
virtuously loved by many, with honored...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: started, conflict, dream, judgement, perspective,
Form: Free verse
I Am Just Getting Started

I'm just getting started on my new revised life
Taken from cancer’s claws, I was spared
And in the daunting morning light
As I grasp the new branch...

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Categories: started, cancer, hope, love, recovery
Form: Free verse
Started To Sing a Serenade
Started To Sing A Serenade

Into a far off past had started to fade 
And wanted to sing her this serenade
Take my soul and be sure...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: started, allegory, analogy, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member It Started with a Blank Canvas
I picked up some words,
From an over heaped pile,
Words which impressed me most.
Put them carefully onto a blank paper,
Like a practiced player placing,
Rooks and pawns...

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Categories: started, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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