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The Complaint
Away! away! / Tempt me no more, insidious Love: / Thy soothing sway
Mark Akenside
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Cherry-Time
Cherries of the night are riper / Than the cherries pluckt at noon / Gather to your fairy piper
Robert Graves
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Blossom.
Now that we've grown / All that we learned / Was the list of things
@arielle-dawn
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The Potato
Earthy mottled brown, / Pomme de terre / The humble spud,
@nick-strong
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Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthened, Though More Weak In Seeming
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming; / I love not less, though less the show appear; / That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming
William Shakespeare
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Sonnet 001: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
From fairest creatures we desire increase, / That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, / But as the riper should by time decease,
William Shakespeare
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Spark Up ***** S)
Rollin B's in the Mazda, blazin / The constant high is what we're cravin / Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, and Drake spitting the supa hot
@xander-b
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Natural beauty
***Our world is beautiful*** / **If you stop and truly view it** / ***Even with all the violence and anarchy***
@the-silent-catastrophe
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Burning Stars
I found you leaning over the balcony, / gazing into a world that was becoming / an illusion to you, smoking a shrinking
@alyssa-rose-evans
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bruised peaches
another pink little sugar pill / wash it down reflexively / saying maybe don't wake up tomorrow
@WhereDoIGoFromHereDorothy
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THE LAST APPLE
Each year it happens. / The apple tree viewed from my balcony / gives up its fruit
@joseph-sinclair
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SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE - TOM DALEY: ADIDAS UK
Tethered Trademark, bequeath your Solicitor / On his Casual Space your Contract allow / That a Touch of Light, an Addict's Stalker
@xavier-paolo-josh-mandreza
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 110
Thy converse drew us with delight, / The men of rathe and riper years: / The feeble soul, a haunt of fears,
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The Old Man's Funeral
I saw an aged man upon his bier, / His hair was thin and white, and on his brow / A record of the cares of many a year;--
William Cullen Bryant
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 042
I vex my heart with fancies dim: / He still outstript me in the race; / It was but unity of place
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Better With Age
I only ever worried that you / were too old for me. / Never once thought that I
@JuliaNeary
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A Woman Of Riper Years (Lyric Poem)
she was a woman of riper years / he was a boy without any fears / they met and fell deeply in love
@ElizabethSquires
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The Flower Unpicked
I wish you could see how beautiful You really are, / Just because nobody has picked you / Doesn't mean your not beautiful
@leonard-of-vergessen
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A Review Of The Movie "Her" Starring Joaquin Phoenix
I found my old journal. / I didn't write in it a lot, / Only when I could think to do it.
@yano
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Double ****
**** / She put a new twist / into her demeanor today.
@jonny-angel
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wading in a lake in my ******
boys seem to be much riper / and ready to eat / after i've buttered them up a little bit
@bakedgoods
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death & dreams
the arpeggio of strings, / a distant voice sings, / for pleasantly contained spaces,
@courtney-pruitt
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Fruit Musings
What happens to the peach when June / rolling like a playful child, / succumbs July?
@ashKayeH
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SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE - TOM DALEY
Why, Herb-Filled Friend, shall I startle your Seal / On such Best Post for your Activity? / You, one so far, offered your Selfless Deal
@xavier-paolo-josh-mandreza
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Learian Limericks 2
There was a Young Lady who tweezed / The hair from her nose as she sneezed; / She then plucked her eyebrows from lowbrows to highbrows,
@MetaVerse
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