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Yo Parents So Strict
My curfew according to my mom is, “before the sun goes down!”
She never gives me the time to meet with friends and hang around
My dad...

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© Anna Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strict, childhood, humor, metaphor, mom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Today's Weather Forecast: Severe Wind Warning
Due to growing Nimbus clouds of oppression
an area of low pressure has been building
Rest assured, it won't lead to bouts of depression
but rumblings of thunder...

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Categories: strict, humorous, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: strict, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rebel In the Library
In the library, at last I am freed
from others’ wishes for what I should read.
Book after book I most gladly peruse
with all these free hours...

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Categories: strict, books,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her...

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Categories: strict, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: strict, society,
Form: Quatrain
Trolius Troll
Remember the story 
of Billy Goats Gruff?
The troll under the bridge,
and all of that stuff?
If you liked that old story
it's all good and well,
but it...

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Categories: strict, children, funny, parody, tree,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dr Suess and His Shoe Store
"I  LIKE NONSENSE, IT WAKES UP THE BRAIN CELLS!"
               ...

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Categories: strict, children, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Teacher's So Cool
"I love my teacher."
"I have a great teacher." 
"My teacher is super."
"My teacher's so cool."

These words are music to a teacher's ears,
Exactly what parents and...

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Categories: strict, cool, education, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
A Backwards Poem-Needing Each Other
me
needing
you through
good and bad
times shared of
joy and love with
forgiveness linked
into redemption
saved through troubled times
with truth is grace
loving daily
portrayed and
pure is love
through me
needing
you



Forgive me, the "Backwards...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strict, dedication, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Beautiful Friend
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” - Jim Henson

Most people hopefully know that feeling
when things just happen to “click” between...

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Categories: strict, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member See Sea Rider
I had never before glimpsed the sea, and I had often felt the lack,
As rainbows sense the lack of luster, so they keep on coming...

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Categories: strict, adventure, fantasy, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Looking Inward
the Covid 19 pandemic has changed
    the entire world ... and me personally
      I am a different...

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Categories: strict, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue…

Slinking into a still hue of blues 
Haunting trumpets dart in and out
Like taxi horns in freeloading traffic
And cling like silk onto full...

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Categories: strict, blue, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wish
I wish I could concentrate my 
Poetic writing to just one form, 
But that just wouldn't be me.

I need to dip my toes into
Every body...

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Categories: strict, art, freedom, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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