Poems from writerdeviant

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I am a teacher by calling, a writer by nature, a mother by grace, and a wife by choice. I love all my roles, though am better at some than at others. I write because I love it and because I need it to deal with a life that can be cruel and cynical as well as beautiful and mysterious. "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Here are the rules of tricubes: Each line contains three syllables. Each stanza contains three lines. Each poem contains three stanzas...
The night I told you that I believed in magic,  I looked you in the eyes as if for the first time  and found love there, like when I was a...
The full moon swelled last night against the inky sky, a lone star keeping it company in the foreboding darkness  surrounding them, and I...
Inspired by Billy Collins' poem of the same name   The faces of the ones  once loved are the first  to go, blurring with new faces, or...
  I did not think it through, the way your simpering mouth  would take a wrong turn and retrace the steps of unwanting, the way desire...

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