Biographical Poetry
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Another side to Christmas... (Please read Author's Notes)

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By Hearthside's Dancing Flames

Biographical Poetry
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With faith's pure grace, love will endure...

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Beyond Their Deepest Grief

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse, contemplation

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The Color of the Day

Biographical Poetry
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A rhymed biographical narrative

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Where the Road Would Bend

Biographical Poetry
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a free verse

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When the Berlin Wall Went Down

Biographical Poetry
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Completed

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Love's Alive! Crown of Sonnets

Biographical Poetry
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An elderly stranger gives directions to parents' gravesite

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When the Heart Goes Seeking

Biographical Poetry
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The echoes of mother's sadness after death.

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So Sad

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse: With Love and Remembrance

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Homeward Bound

Biographical Poetry
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A Free Form Poem

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Her Perfumed Essence

Biographical Poetry
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Cherishing footholds in life's ever-changing landscape

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Wherever Lilacs Grow

Biographical Poetry
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A family's faith comes in many forms and actions...

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To See Him Safely Home

Biographical Poetry
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from 42 reviews.

A sonnet sequence

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What Each Day Brings

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse: Of memories and welcomed resolution...

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A Gathering of Roses

Biographical Poetry
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a free verse

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Then There Were None

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse

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Your Last Night

by Luna

Biographical Poetry
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A Kyrielle: To everything there is a season...

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It's Time the Gardens Sleep

Biographical Poetry
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For my sister

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How Her Dying Feels to Me

Biographical Poetry
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Prose poem and haiku

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Dead Butterfly and Sleeping Giant

by Sis Cat

Biographical Poetry
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Nonet Poetry

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Paths Unseen

Biographical Poetry
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Mother's Day Site Contest: A legacy of remembrance and love

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Resonating Echoes

Biographical Poetry
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A remembrance

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Shades of Blue

Biographical Poetry
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A Swap Quatrain: Just up the road to home

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Childhood Still Echoes

Biographical Poetry
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The Way We Were

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Not Easily

Biographical Poetry
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Mono-rhymed self-assessment

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Normality?

Biographical Poetry
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Returned To Sender: Service Suspended

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Between These Pages

Biographical Poetry
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A tribute poem of unconditional love and support

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An Emptiness Echoes

Biographical Poetry
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Eighteen years and a thousand miles ago...

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To Never Look Back

Biographical Poetry
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Bad Kitty...

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Piddle Diddle

by closetpoetjester

Biographical Poetry
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Sorting through grief's ashes from a loved one's suicide

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If Only Echos Daily

Biographical Poetry
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The notes may help the decipher on the reflection.

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Mum... Remember?

Biographical Poetry
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A Childhood Reminiscence

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The Wooden Fence

Biographical Poetry
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5/7/7: A mother recalls her newborn's last moments

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Loss and Remembrance

Biographical Poetry
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Free Form Verse: Sound Embedded

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On a Good Day Out Here

Biographical Poetry
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I write to remember this day of unfathomable woe...

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As Dawn Breaks This October Morn

Biographical Poetry
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A rhymed story poem of renewal in the face of loneliness...

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The Gift of Their Song

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse - performance/'slam' style

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Red Poppies

by visionary1234

Biographical Poetry
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Before my birth.

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Was I the Child You Lost?

by Sis Cat

Biographical Poetry
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The End

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To be amongst the Necromancers

by Meia (MESAYERS)

Biographical Poetry
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Response to Sally's Eyes by Debi Marquette

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The Day You Died

Biographical Poetry
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A Remembrance, part I

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Audrey Ann, My Sister

Biographical Poetry
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Haibun Suite for the Club (Warning: suicide topic)

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Utterly Alone

by Gypsy Blue Rose

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse

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Old Soul

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse (third place winner)

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Sailor on the Sea

Biographical Poetry
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His restoring balm: Old Mission Peninsula, Traverse City, MI

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In God's Healing Orchard

Biographical Poetry
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Rhyming couplets

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Forever Evolving

Biographical Poetry
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free verse from a memory

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The Harpist

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse: I Can Contest Entry

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I Can Do More Than Remember

Biographical Poetry
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My younger self talking to me

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The Past is in the Past

by Debi Pick Marquette

Biographical Poetry
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A Haibun Suite

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Fury's Path

Biographical Poetry
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A sonnet

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Adieu To A Rose

Biographical Poetry
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an English language haiku (no reference to syllable count)

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haiku (gnarled pine)

by AlvinTEthington

Biographical Poetry
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Club entry for Gypsy's Finding Your Muse, Forms of Art

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The Roots of My Poet-Tree

by Debi Pick Marquette

Biographical Poetry
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Paying Homage to a great ASSet ...

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Derriere

by closetpoetjester

Biographical Poetry
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Echoes of remembrance on the way to Mother's Day...

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Memory's Reawakened Moments

Biographical Poetry
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Linked Cinquains

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Get outta my mouth

Biographical Poetry
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Sadly I was not his only victim

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godfather

by Debi Pick Marquette

Biographical Poetry
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Rhymed Verse

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To Savor And Reflect

Biographical Poetry
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Multiple Tetractys: With Love and Remembrance

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Marsh Marigold Magic

Biographical Poetry
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Free Form/Free Verse Poetry

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Mama, Free

Biographical Poetry
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Free style

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The Eternal Sweater

Biographical Poetry
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A Haibun Suite: Dreams of loved ones and home beckon return

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Tumbled Footfalls

Biographical Poetry
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A love poem

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When Shadows Fall

Biographical Poetry
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Free Verse Poetry

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In January

Biographical Poetry
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A Kyrielle

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My Lifelong Quest

Biographical Poetry
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The changing of love, living with another husband

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Diamond Dust

by Marjon van Bruggen

Biographical Poetry
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We're more alike than you think...

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I Shall Remain Nameless

by karenina

Biographical Poetry
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A poem of remembrance

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When Storm Winds Blow

Biographical Poetry
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Dealing with grief.

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Emptiness Re-filled

by LisaMay

Biographical Poetry
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For my brother Nick who passed in 2018.

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ABC Poem for My Beloved Brother

by Alexandra Trovato

Biographical Poetry
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seeing... (free verse)

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Photographic Fears

by I am Cat

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse true story

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Lost in the Shadows

Biographical Poetry
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a poem

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Footprints on the Grass

Biographical Poetry
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A poem in tetrameter.

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Another Snow Day

Biographical Poetry
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Court Humour...

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Fool

by closetpoetjester

Biographical Poetry
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Nonet: Memory's Essence

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In Vase of Blue

Biographical Poetry
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A 6-page biography in rhyme

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I Like Your Style

Biographical Poetry
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an intentionally undelivered lament

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Why

by C. Gale Burnett

Biographical Poetry
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missing my sister on her birthday

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The Power of Love

Biographical Poetry
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I see things as they were when I was young.

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Through MIsts of Time

by judiverse

Biographical Poetry
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Historical Ballad

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Ballad of Joseph Firth

by kiwisteveh

Biographical Poetry
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A double rispetto and a quatrain

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For Love Will Endure.

Biographical Poetry
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Poetry Potlatch #39 - Irregular Ode

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Dreams Unite

Biographical Poetry
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The true story of Meme Le Blanc, the 'Wild Child' of Chalons

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Call her Savage

by Meia (MESAYERS)

Biographical Poetry
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a sonnet for Winter in my city...& homelessness

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Stone Cold

by Dawn Munro

Biographical Poetry
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A Swap Quatrain: Of Love and Remembrance

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By the Garden Shed

Biographical Poetry
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a sonnet

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Your Heart Lives On

Biographical Poetry
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a poem

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The Time in Between

Biographical Poetry
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Their songs flow through me...

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Songs of My People

Biographical Poetry
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The one to whom my first book is dedicated

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Remembering Lin

Biographical Poetry
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A Multiple Tetractys: Spring's renewing promise

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To Mend a Weary Heart

Biographical Poetry
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Mistress of King Charles once a serf!

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Pretty, Witty Nell Gwynne

by Meia (MESAYERS)

Biographical Poetry
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Share a Story in a Poem: He grew flowers to instill hope...

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Amid Aleppo's Rubble

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse

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The Journey

by damommy

Biographical Poetry
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for Marie

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A Happy Birthday Rhyme

Biographical Poetry
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from 21 reviews.

Free verse

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The Problem with Grief

Biographical Poetry
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My first Shakespearian Sonnet.

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A Sonnet For Anthony

by amada

Biographical Poetry
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Free verse

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