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Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                                 uncertainties

I'm a faded image
in this island of healing
trying to control life,
but helpless against 
ambrosial...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: today, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Feline Alert
*The feline Texan way*

A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country music - around my core
Flattering eyes - a rustic shell.
Join me in a "Country Girls Tale"

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Every day I draw near the morning dawn, 
Abide by the landscape towards the new...

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Categories: today, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Needed Wings Today
To my Poetry Soup friends - this was written as a thank
you note for all of your beautiful, uplifting gifts of poetry 
and comments. Your words can mean the difference 
between a dark day and a light day ~ thank you all

The walls were closing in last night
 my covers felt like straitjackets
 the darkness...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: today, hope, poetry,
Form: Verse

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Premium Member When Yesterday Was Today
On cold evenings
Surrounded by friends
Warm and
Safe
I could stay up forever
Taking strength
From the blackness 
Talking
Dreaming
Feeling that I could float upward
And walk with the stars
On their lonely journey 
Through heaven.

There was a girl 
I was with then
Tall
Graceful
And beautiful
When I first saw her
I wanted to feel her softness
Her breathe on my cheek
Her hand  
Brushing against my thigh
When...

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Categories: today, lost love, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Today I Learn To Be a Widow, Lesson 1
lesson one

i wake up alone
for the first time
the silence is deafening

i want to get up
but every fiber in me
is dead weight

i want to call my mother
and ask her how a widow
gets out of bed in the morning
but i won’t do that to her
i will figure it out

i remember how yesterday
i had to run an errand
and...

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Categories: today, death, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Prayer For Today
My Prayer For Today
7/22/2019
Written: by Miracle Man

Lord, guard my tongue in things I say,
Let your son Jesus be my light today.

Let each of my thoughts rest solely on HIM,
From the brightening hour until growing dim.

Then at such time when I become tempted,
Just render those thoughts, as preemptive.

For I’ve little ability that’s of my own,
And will...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: today, prayer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member I Found Someone To Love Today
* Inspired by the Joni Mitchell song - Tin Angel
** My first pantoum

I found someone to love today
Her firefly eyes light up a room
In dreams I heard an angel say
Her sunshine smile makes flowers bloom

Her firefly eyes light up a room
Where shadows scream and devils haunt
Her sunshine smile makes flowers bloom
In beds where weeds would...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: today, anti bullying,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Tangible
What things does one possess
at journey's end?
What bits and bobs? What trivial tripe?
Please, do tell, what is the hype?
For should I recall anything at all
of trinkets obtained in memory's shawl,
it would be the warmth of a companion's smile;
his hand in mine, while on this earth for a while.
The tickle of a tide brushing against tiny...

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Categories: nostalgia, philosophy, today, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Forty Today
Visited you today
as the sun set in the horizon…

the orange tinged carnations 
were a perfect complement 
for the skies
and for you… 
orange and blue
always remind me of you

the winds softly blew
and I just sat there
staring at the grass,
well more at your name really…

hardly believing
what I am looking at, 
that it’s been seven years

of missing you,
of...

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Categories: today, brother, dedication, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Death Should Visit Me Today

IF DEATH SHOULD VISIT ME TODAY
Whether young or old and gray
As earthly life is swept away
Please do not mourn, do not be sad
Just think of joy yet to be had.
Set loose from flesh- forever free
To sail a calmer, endless sea
Eternity, my newfound home
Within which I will freely roam
Inside a greater spirit shell
For then my soul...

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Categories: today, death, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Secrets of Mornings
Each day dawns laden with secrets.

The morning dews are crystal balls, 
each holding a secret trailer of 
a fragment of day.    

The birds, chirping incessantly, 
gossip among themselves about the
delightful things you’ll find at 
the weekend market. 

In the crevice between the sun's 
virginal light and last night's shadows, 
an old friend...

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Categories: today, future, happiness, life, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today
Embrace the miracle of Today's birth;
     the beginning of everything.
     
     Incapable of re-living
     or pre-living its ownership,     
     our character bares definition
     by the gratitude displayed
...

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Categories: today, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Tomorrow Is Today Before It Becomes Yesterday
The sun is the sun
It rises we run
When it turns the nighttime to day
It's hot when it's cold
And never grows old
As our time slips quickly away 
The sun remains the sun

The wind is the wind 
It lays and it spins
And on, occasion will rage
Be it warm, be it chilled
Whether gusty or stilled
It changes from page...

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Categories: today, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Today Is a Gift
Hold on to those moments

Of Spoken words of

Meaningful

Sincere

Love

Tomorrow might never

Become the present

© By Eve Roper  
6/22/2015...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: today, love, spoken word,
Form: Verse
Premium Member On Human Rights Today
For centuries, minorities have fought
to gain their human rights. How can it be
that even now so many folks do not
feel safe in “civilized” society?

And one can’t fathom the atrocities
this very minute somewhere going on
affecting innocents in towns and cities!
Great wickedness from day to dusk to dawn!

Laws were established to ensure that we
would have our freedoms...

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Categories: today, rights,
Form: Rhyme

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