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Premium Member Romeo and Juliet: the Remix
Three voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia

In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.

Professor: 
Today we are going to role play 
a Win-Win enculturation game.

We will define enculturation...

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Categories: optic, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form: Narrative



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: optic, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form: Couplet
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: optic, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In a ricochet of emotion I just cannot speak 

Our time...

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Categories: optic, lost love, lust, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Traumatic brain injury headaches
I shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm 
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim 
as crushing temporal lesion push against 
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves 
from my forehead...

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Categories: optic, allah, angel, car, care, dedication, depression, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse



O' Baobab
O' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty 
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn, 
Against the fire, the desire for sigh 
Haughty, you stand, before the...

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Categories: optic, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yangtruth With Yintegralbeauties
Beauty, like Truth,
speaks eternal promise
of timeless decomposition.

Flexing Grace
effects empathic Truth
optimizing promise prophets past
reiterating Golden Mythic Creation Stories.

Many have mentioned strength of compassion
and tenacious flexibility of mutual mindfulness
as Two Horses to effective political-economic
natural-spiritual sufficiency.

Most dominant Yang...

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Categories: optic, health, love, nature, religion, science, society, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Untitled Nightmare
Haunting night for writer's block decided to 
explore my writing endeavors awakened always 
at three am feeling overwhelmed from another night 
filled with words dancing about inside my head to put 
to pages immediately before...

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Categories: optic, blessing, emotions, memory, miracle, snow, write, writing,
Form: Ballade
Game of Thrones3
Forge on ever foolish
Cucumbers in your relish
Black Smiths and Peasants 
get into the darkness, out of the Parish


The Red Horse gallops, polls, bearers, of holes
Get out of its way, as the
rumors gather Communist ships
 ...

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Categories: optic, betrayal, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Timed Out
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optic, absence, destiny, dream, imagination, lost, missing, time,
Form: Free verse
Genesis Resplendent To Me a Garden of Eden Resident Atheist
Genesis resplendent to me – a garden of Eden resident atheist

Avast abundance of life forms
doth snapchat and buzzfeed
a motley fool of indiscriminate creed
resembled yours truly freed
from those scrambling greed
dully sending hotmail google
eyed hungrily ogling indeed
six...

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Categories: optic, appreciation, autumn, birth, celebration, color, earth, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
I Discovered Miscellaneous Meaningless Hodgepodge
I discovered miscellaneous meaningless hodgepodge...

dating back circa: Age of computer antiquity
mine signature worthless gibberish
found Earthling dumbfounded
for further waste of time inquire
about trivial details constituting 
more'n six electronic new pages
the following an excerpt from book of
Matthew...

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Categories: optic, absence, adventure, character, dream, eulogy, history, march,
Form: Free verse
Total Eclipse of the Sun August 21, 2017
Though the starry eyed corona sporting sun dance 
cosmic phenomena (stealthily slated to describe mid expanse
night during broad daylight), this astronomical event common at a glance. 

Said Hal lens neigh saying Trojan Horse 
 ...

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Categories: optic, adventure, angst, anxiety, blue, community, cool, innocence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Genesis Resplendent
Autumnal hint faintly tinges air 
finding this mortal 
     bewitched by blare 
ring refulgent radiance, 

      which quiets viz cheer
ring, harkening murmuring analogous,
   ...

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Categories: optic, 11th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So Sadly Now, These Arms
So sadly now, these arms of mine, not finding you at all
Imagine Grace to be in doubt, that love is just on call
 
For fools who've never felt LOVE'S pain, known Flood from Heaven's rain!
...

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Categories: optic, love,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, You Don'T Know the Shape I'M In!
Yes, indeed,
I'm not quite up to speed,
These days, anyway...
Let me tell you, if I may...
The 20 odd meds I must take,
Each and every day...
Hope you got the space in your hard drive,
To see what it...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optic, adventure, angst, health, recovery from..., me, heart,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Y2k
I would have to pause in trying to remember certain things that I would have experienced or events that happened 20 years ago. On the other hand, there is one major world situation that gradually...

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Categories: optic, change, computer, fear,
Form: Prose
The 60s
American Bandstand, Aqua Velva Ads, Aretha Franklin, and, the Andy Griffith Show
Black lights, Bewitched, bean bag chairs, beads, Batman and the Beatles
Cleopatra, Corvairs, Corvettes, Chevelles, Captain Kangaroo, Civil Rights Movement
Dionne Warwick, Derek and the Dominoes,...

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Categories: optic, america, angst, fashion, history, music, political, war,
Form: Abecedarian
Building a Rapport With My Body
All the elegant ivy
an inch off the brick wall
is scattered so purposefully

and behind the gate a bird hops
like some kind of humiliated
game show contestant.

This is a view, one view,
through the redbrick arbor
where the corbeled arch...

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Categories: optic, imagination, introspection, philosophy, body, perspective,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Controlling Energy
Voices of the silent whispers echo deeply disturbing fact 
debates hold principle those with brains tear down structures 
human rights ignored opening up a can of worms within morals 
where truth is hidden away questions...

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Categories: optic, betrayal, conflict, corruption, deep, peace, power, pride,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Irreconcilable Paradox
Before the whirlwind steam blurred into scoping.
Before scarcely the morning smooth gathering.
We were nervous until trustworthiness was revealed.
Amidst the adjunct's misfortune by blaze wield.
They were heedless to our flaws due to their sway.
As we overruled,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: optic, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, character, confusion, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Lucubrations Fuels Ebullience
Lucubrations fuels ebullience

Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
("FAKE") facade, Oriel sincere

twittering, nonetheless tis great
for an ego striving to maintain
hum bull modesty, yet I...

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Categories: optic, 12th grade, addiction, adventure, books, confidence, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Lucubrations Fuels Ebullience
Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine posted poems that perambulate
such feedback, whither donning trumped
("FAKE") facade, Oriel sincere

twittering, nonetheless tis great
for an ego striving to maintain
hum bull modesty, yet I hate
to be...

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Categories: optic, birth, celebration, devotion, encouraging, fun, howl, humor,
Form: Free verse
Lindsay Lohan - Part One
Perhaps in another i.e. alternate world, this middled aged (baby boomer bona fide bra burner) of two well nigh near grown daughters felt caught in an invisible whirled wide web The Parent Trap. 
 ...

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Categories: optic, celebrity, sexy, smile, sweet, teenage, woman, youth,
Form: Narrative
Tempus Fugit - Part One
LVI Elapsed October 17th's Bore Witness To A Girl Born With True Grit

Tuss ben big goo me newt to write
and how though trite
thine complex edifice immersed in spite
which doth nobody any good RIGHT
hence hie exerted...

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Categories: optic, beautiful, celebration, courage, dedication, devotion, family, hurt,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things