- Who Punctured Peace? Ongoing
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- Votes 15
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A four tercet poem. - Cerebral Moonbeams Complete
- Reads 497
- Votes 18
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When we view the heavens at night it brings peace of mind and a since of belonging and our imagination takes fancy and we wonder what if I could travel on a moonbeam. - My Brothers, Part II: A Perfect Christmas Complete
- Reads 124
- Votes 7
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This story was first posted on Original Poetry last year, 2010, for their Christmas Stories and can still be found there. The events described is on of the Cotton Jones series of unpublish stories I have written over the years. I am working on a novel about Cotton Jones but this story will not be in the novel, perhaps later in a collect of stories about my youth it will find its way to publication. - Shiny Penny Ongoing
- Reads 340
- Votes 30
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A story of a memory about once long ago. - My Heart does Ache: Two Cousins Complete
- Reads 187
- Votes 31
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This is a pensive, reflective rondeau style poem consisting of 15 lines consisting of three stanzas; 5, 4, and 6 lines per stanza. The poem is straight forward and deals with my emotions, as two of my close male cousins ashes are to be returned to the earth. - My Soul's Truss Complete
- Reads 180
- Votes 9
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Selena and I wanted to try something neither of us have attempted before and settled on a triolet poem, here it is, "My Soul's Truss." - Time before Time Ongoing
- Reads 365
- Votes 29
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"Time before Time" is a free verse acrostic poem, but not the ordinary acrostic; this acrostic is a hidden message within the message. To discover the secret phrase spell out the letters that are in bold; did you find it? - Night Shadow Ongoing
- Reads 86
- Votes 11
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Night Shadow is a double-nonet poem consisting of two nine line halves (the bottom mirrors the shape of the top). A single nonet poem has nine lines with nine syllables in line one and then each line has one syllable less until line nine has only one syllable. In this double-nonet poem the bottom half mirrors the top half and starts with one syllable ascending in the number of syllables each line has until the last line has nine, totaling eighteen lines. - The Culling Complete
- Reads 205
- Votes 18
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This is an apocalyptic style poem written in the style of prophecy and is a lamentation. - Wisdom's Soothing Oil Complete
- Reads 213
- Votes 20
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This three quatrain poem uses alliteration, assonance, consonance, and cadence to convey its message. I hope you enjoy it. - A Place Held Secret Complete
- Reads 190
- Votes 16
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This poem was inspired by a Vincent Moore's poem; "Alone in my Room". - Kiss the Cold Stone Complete
- Reads 318
- Votes 26
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free verse poem in quatrains. - Inhabitants of Disgrace Complete
- Reads 103
- Votes 17
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Inhabitants of Disgrace was written for a post graduate class; the assignment was to experience homelessness and then write about it. Although it is an older poem I felt it deserved its own page. - The Day the Angels Wept: Sept. 11, 2001 Complete
- Reads 125
- Votes 20
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I wrote this monostich poem the day after 9-11, and felt it expressed everything I felt at the moment, and it still fulfills my emotions. Love, peace, and freedom. Olan. - Escarpment of Granite Complete
- Reads 172
- Votes 22
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We are all offered challenges in life that come in many forms. They are there for us to surmount and conquer and place our claim that one of life's mysteries is revealed and what lies ahead are more challenges and more beauty. Love, peace and freedom, Olan L. Smith
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