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Premium Member A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the standards 
Of modern verse and composition, 
Lyrics fluidly written, 
Perfect...

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Categories: diction, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.

Encryption can be used to mask...

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Categories: diction, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Mask of Tourmaline
Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.

I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...

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Categories: diction, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...

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Categories: diction, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of...

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Categories: diction, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Mask of Labradorite
Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number. 

I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...

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Categories: diction, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Original Mask of Alabaster
A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.

Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass, 
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frothy brass.

It floats aloft the frost of...

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Categories: addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Kundalini Awakening
Part-1: Preamble

God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime

God's vibration caused a ripple...

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Categories: diction, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Choices and Voices
Choices my dear one,
So many choices, 
So few voices,
Some near,
Some far,
Some to fear.

A path.
Clear and chosen.  
The erasure of a closing.
The logos of math.
The trajectory of wrath.
The conciliatory legislation blindly ruling the cosmos of...

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Categories: diction, courage, inspirational, life, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For the Love of Lexicon
My Mother taught me
how to see through language, 
paper was rare, iron ink wasn't free
so she sold some jewelry for porcelain lettering, 
and we clapped and sang the alphabet into life
our life, our joy, our...

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Categories: diction, dedication, history, passion,
Form: Epic
Ode To African Child
Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
 Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal

Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beauty of nature and life
The belike of Bowie...

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Categories: diction, africa, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Corner of the Street
Pedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I cannot keep on thrusting for answers which has to be...

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Categories: diction, appreciation, butterfly, candy,
Form: Chant Royal
Hope
HOPE BY N3
Slashed at the throat a blow aimed not at the esophagus but at the vocal cords
Paralyzed by something worst than fear,
Speech grows limp even as silent screams are constrained by shame’s chord.
Tethered like...

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Categories: diction, christian, lost, night, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Call Me Tex
When I was just a teenage lad, and growing up out west
I never wore a cowboy hat or fancy leather vests,
never put on cowboy boots or western shirts with snaps,
never wore tooled leather belts, much...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diction, home, humorous, me, satire, , western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Oceans and Winds
Oceans and Winds

I have an obsequious unnatural inclination
To sustain my external compulsions 
And convert them to a pre-text of a sub-text
Of instantaneous conclusions
Bi-Partisan confusions, melted humans and rheuminations
We seem to be caught up in the...

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Categories: diction, corruption, courage, creation, humanity, visionary, war, weather,
Form: Free verse
Anathema
Dumbfounded in the raw,
nerves in neon.
Sin-New and bones quartered by time's animation-
Death re-imagined by the law of Thelema and Agenda 21.
Moments of truth corner you in alleys and avenues in the night.
As they are ritually...

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Categories: diction, christian, dark, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Victorian Poverty In London
Victorian Poverty In London.
.
Slumming it in adverse poverty
In Victorian London’s  
Limehouse White Chapel and Bethnal Green 
Dingy doss houses packed to the brim
Narrow dirty streets with cobbles
And loud cartwheel din
.
Large families sharing one room
Overcrowded...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diction, community, conflict, poverty,
Form: I do not know?
Godless
lot of things on my mind filled with deepness, so when you read this- I hope you let me release this- inner theory in my thesis- seems that, there’s a lot of people on the...

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Categories: diction, art, atheist, god,
Form: I do not know?
Solomon's Advice To Sons, Or Is It the Book of Proverbs
Unless pastors accept the Bible as perfect & complete, they are likely not Bible-Christians.Yet, the hardest challenge for my faith in the Bible is the Book of Proverbs. We are not listing proverbs we learned...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diction, allegory, bible, confusion, faith, father son, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Fourth Reich


   Davos visiting prostitute spends her 
unbeknownst last hours wide eyed 
in a strange new World. As she smiles to her John, 
a BlackRock Assassin, who watches his boss 
approach the stage. 
The...

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Categories: diction, dark,
Form: Other
The Victimized Female
Emotional conviction from a minds depiction
Lays out mind restriction 
But will only bring friction
I can try to explain my explanation
With the utmost diction
Elaborating the reasons for stitching a heart that needs fixing
The slightest concern never...

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Categories: diction, life, sorry, sympathy, heart, night, heart, night,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Time Signatures Waltz
Moving through the pulse and the flow
A timetable of fixed dilation
A given
And measured 
Ellipse
To the people it trips
As they ride the crest
Of the waves
Of emotions
Just prisoners of 
Perpetual motion
Never ceasing
Never pretending to be
Anything more

Born into...

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Categories: diction, beautiful, creation, destiny, god, journey, space,
Form: Free verse
The Long Road To Nowhere
The long road to nowhere.


My thoughts are like a box of frogs;
The top comes off and they are all gone.
I have no control over all of that which I have lost.
In separate directions my life...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diction, death, depression, life, me, memory, science, writing,
Form: Bio
Brother Gaus
Brother Gaus


Gaus is a Rainbow man
Only that he’s not curved.
He’s just a miscellany
That makes him striking.
Gaus has a funny knack
Of repairing any gadget
Can do so with anything
Except repairing himself.
He can service the lot
Except his own...

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Categories: diction,
Form: Free verse
I Am Dancing Along the Corridor of Love
I AM DANCING ALONG THE CORRIDOR OF LOVE.

As I write to you, family and friends have started suspecting perhaps I'm suffering from 'lovecamia' that is, the problem of not being loved as coined by me...

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Categories: diction, i love you,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things