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Onerous Ordeal
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matthew harris
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abhorrent, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Clash of Truth and Beauty
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Dennis Spilchuk
| Verse |
abhorrent, beauty, corruption, culture, deep,
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Missing off the Grid
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DM Babbit
| Blank verse |
abhorrent, angst,
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A Lotus Scrawled Fiat
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
abhorrent, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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The Price of Valor
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conor pullen
| Free verse |
abhorrent, courage, emotions, inspirational, pain,
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Carol Connell and William Shakespeare's Collaborative Rant Against The Devil
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Carol Connell
| Rhyme |
abhorrent, angel, anger, bible, evil,
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45's Unsavory Vagary
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Greg Gaul
| Rhyme |
abhorrent, allusion, corruption, humorous, political,
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Deforestation
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fauxcroft wade
| Acrostic |
abhorrent, environment, inspiration, tree, uplifting,
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Lickety Split
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Gregory R Barden
| Acrostic |
abhorrent, analogy, life, love, time,
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The beginning
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CHRISTOPHER QUIGLEY
| Free verse |
abhorrent, life,
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avast congregation fomenting immediate legislation
by matthew harris
young people all across this country
(The United States Of America),
this middle aged papa...
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abhorrent, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Anti America
by Heather Turner
Children gunning and laboring.
Drugs and education illicit.
Streets abhorrent with torture and ignorant shame.
Politics the satire and voting abolished.
Quiet voices and raging emotions stir the pot...
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abhorrent, america, corruption, grief,
The nearer peace
by Katherine Braithwaite
The nearer peace,more savage are the acts
Abhorrent to the atheist in us all.
History, undigested ,splits and cracks
As we whites did evil to the...
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Villanelle |
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abhorrent, abuse, allusion, analogy, anger,
An End to the Republic
by DM Babbit
It's coming,
don't close your eyes or fall asleep
the fall of democracy could happen this very week.
Republicans pass bills unread
that...
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Political Verse |
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abhorrent, america, integrity, political, power,
RED CLOUDS
by Mick Talbot
Red clouds, bloodstained, a warning! Innocent
souls forever lost in vain, abhorrent!
Never learned, natures life's arbitrator.
Red clouds for Jack, nature, his life counsellor!...
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Iambic Pentameter |
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abhorrent, nature,
What Happened To Cody Hahn, Part II
by David Welch
...It came two weeks later when Bud Biandi,
got his throat slashed in his garage.
He’d directed Cody in four hit films,
and made him part of his...
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abhorrent, abuse, anger, celebrity, corruption,
THE BLACK RIVER DAMNATION
by Nata Augustovskaya
At the place, been the ruins imperial,
In the ominous midnight we`re lost-
Not belongings, but some immaterial.
Been so long, broken straight — it`s a trust.
Searing beams...
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abhorrent, conflict, farewell, hate, hurt,
Zibby's room
by Austin Jefferson
It’s all done up and goofy
So you can justify
Wanting a thing universally
Abhorrent ( criminal desire).
Every sentence is the killing of
One’s self, (in Love).
You just...
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abhorrent, depression, nonsense, visionary,
losing
by Allie Shepard
Bashed with integrity until all morals are dead, ...
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abhorrent, depression,
A Slow Hand, Deep Thoughts And True Pen
by Robert Lindley
A Slow Hand, Deep Thoughts And True Pen
Each time I write of my crashed hopes and dreams
mind falls into black-depths, sends cold shivers.
Tempted to falsely...
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abhorrent, art, creation, life, poetry,
MY HISTORY
by norberto franco cisneros
A torment of pain transcended the eons of my ethnicity, engraving on the white pyramids of Chichen-Itza my life. Walking the pebbled courtyards and...
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abhorrent, confusion, history, sorrow,
Time - It's All We Had
by DM Babbit
Loneliness slips in around my stride,
alone walking without you by my side;
the days take their time to hide
of passing in a languishing pride.
How...
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abhorrent, absence, age, angst,
The Price of Different
by John Floyd
A boy in bright purple lipstick buries his sentence into his wrists
Mascaraed eyes trickle black hopelessness down his face
His reflected corruption in the mirror...
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abhorrent, anger, betrayal, death, gender,
TORTURED
by Judy Emery
TORTURED
Words and lies that cut deep
That makes your heart weep
Makes it hard to sleep
Have you ever see someone tortured?
Bleeding out like ink
While looking into...
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abhorrent, angel, anger, betrayal, dark,
The Tattered Man
by Jerome Malenfant
I was thinking of deep matters
As I walked along the shore
When I met a man in tatters
Who was sitting on an oar.
As he stared...
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abhorrent, humor, nonsense,
The Nameless One
by John Michaels
Petrifying prediction proffered.
Abhorrent abominations
and shapeless shadows stalk streets.
Perpetually pitch
as Luna's light lapsed.
Prostrate and pray:
Stygian
nightmare
roused.
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28th April 2017
For the "Form N - Ninette or Nonet" contest, sponsored...
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Nonet |
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abhorrent, conflict, corruption, dark, horror,
Brave new world
by Mark Martin
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...
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abhorrent, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Spices and Things
by Daniel Handschuh
I would give you my advices
If they weren't overpowered with spices
And things. Believe me, I hold
No control over these bold
Statements I make, nor the clever
Phrases...
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abhorrent, evil,
Marxism For Dummies 7
by Michael Coy
B52s above the Aleutians?
It never was a Red Dread global mission.
Fidel was just Galician patrician,
and Ho and Mao were scholarly Confucians.
They wore those uniforms like...
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Sonnet |
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abhorrent, satire,
Go and lay an egg
by Taoi Chanan
a 1 2 3 4 is not a 1 2 1 2 nor a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8....ok then hum....x
A house...
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I do not know? |
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abhorrent, april, arabic, august, baseball,