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Poems and forms Free Verse: "Home for causes, lost" Nursery Rhyme: "Ending a fairy tale" Dramatic Monologue: "Ariel's Odyssey" Narrative poem: "Estella" Villanelle: "Circle of Life" Epithalamion: "Groom to Bride" Carpe Diem: "Don't wait" Clerihew: "Margaret Atwood" Recueillement: "Am I a poet?" Octave: "Promise"

being a collection of ten works, humble offerings, with hope you will enjoy... thank you readers and judges, for taking the time. (and if anyone is interested, there is another set, of the unchosen, with the same title, only with an asterisk in front....)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Enjoy!

Past and is history.

She's Shaira. She's broken. When will she know her true heart's desire?

A witch is accused of witchcraft... Leon de Mace must take her to a monastery far from town. But the girl has a dark secret which she hopes she can keep hidden...

Standing so rigid, in your armor of devine splendor, so brave, covering me with your stare's, as I sense what you crave.