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Lifelong Hermitage Denizen Enjoys Spiritual Freedom
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matthew harris
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absent, adventure, allegory, environment, fantasy,
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I Write Wits Psalm Burning Desire
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matthew harris
| Dramatic Verse |
absent, angst, blue, dad, fate,
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Cause I Was Absent
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MAHTAB BANGALEE
| Free verse |
absent, how i feel,
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Betrayal - Fickle Death's Sickle
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Jo Daniel
| Rhyme |
absent, betrayal, death,
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The Plaque
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Steve Sant
| Rhyme |
absent, war,
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never seen the like of you
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doug pederson
| Rhyme |
absent, funny,
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Seasons - in South Africa
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Juanita Oosthuizen
| Free verse |
absent, change, emotions, growth, inspiration,
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A World Without Illiterates
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Maryam Dalhatu
| Free verse |
absent, care, change, corruption, deep,
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He Walked Midnight Sands, In Deserts Of Black Light
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Robert Lindley
| Sonnet |
absent, art, dark, death, halloween,
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SLAPPY THE APPLE TREE OF OZ - WIZ
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Kim Rodrigues
| Rhyme |
absent, adventure, humor,
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HALLOWEEN NIGHT
by Anisha Dutta
HALLOWEEN NIGHT
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absent, halloween, horror, night,
GOD IS PRESENT---
by James Edward Lee Sr.
There is a calling on me, on you
I just don’t know how to answer
And it seems that I don’t know what to do
I’ve been tried...
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absent, appreciation, blessing, confidence, devotion,
EMOTIONS OF YEARNING
by V.MUTHU MANICKAM
The bedspread of the blue sea is vast
She poses saliently silent
Serenity of the scene in my soul is sure to last
Tho' my mind is...
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absent, beach, for her, i
Lament of My Life
by Dedu Son
In a world of love I was befittingly born,
A time of respect and appreciation;
In one instinct I became destitute,
With one wrong step I fell into...
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absent, emotions,
ABSENCE EQUALS LONELINESS
by norberto franco cisneros
In my despair I asked the old woman
will you bring the sky to cheer me?
She answered, “I can’t, the sky is already around you.”
I was...
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absent, loneliness, longing, love,
The former Double Life Of Matthew Scott Harris
by matthew harris
The (former) Double Life Of Matthew Scott Harris
Dove finch he following iniquitous
licentious, lecherous longing
extinguished quite
some...
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absent, grief, hurt, meaningful, memory,
OrganicGreen Memes
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Enthymeme:
A syllogism or other argument,
logical and ecological and theological,
in which a relational premise
or the rationally robust conclusion
is [0] unexpressed.
All truth is healthy
All beauty is truth
Therefore,...
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absent, beautiful, green, health, humor,
Who Beside This Atheist Doth say Thar Haint No Angels
by matthew harris
Who Beside This Atheist Doth "say" Thar Haint No Angels?
Two fatal head on
deadly automobile accidents
in...
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absent, 12th grade, angel, death,
Chill
by Xuefeng Pan
No one was aware of when
The surroundings were
Silent and slant
From near to far,
Mosquitoes were disappeared
Flies have gone,
And grasshoppers went
Looked up to the sky
Warblers were nowhere
Swallows...
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absent, autumn, bird, environment, weather,
Alice in Unreality Land
by Kevin Shaw
Alice in Unreality Land
Tweedle Dee was acting frivolously dumb,
Whilst Mock Turtle’s face sullen and glum.
Not unusually White Rabbit was late,
Alice grew large compressed in a...
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absent, character, confusion, nonsense, surreal,
I Stand Here
by Mark Peterson
I stand here, spinning rhyme;
child of destiny, soul of time.
Born on this benighted sphere;
Absent grasp of why I'm here.
Summoned by a distant voice;
made...
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absent, hope,
The tongue In Cheek Balm
by matthew harris
The (tongue In Cheek) Balm...
Of "permanent" Sleep
Abbott, nothing beats the
immortal heavenly reincarnation
after mortality odometer
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absent, absence, allah, angel, celebration,
The Perpetual Beginner Poet
by Gerald Dillenbeck
This may come as large surprise,
but I did once take a beginner's poetry class
which I often confuse with my beginner parenting class.
In which we learned...
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absent, beauty, health, parents, poetry,
Spiritedly Distilling Social Graces
by matthew harris
Puberty set off affright
seeding decades long
terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (except
...
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absent, 11th grade, 12th grade,
TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD---
by James Edward Lee Sr.
TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD~~~
Don't look for me here;
Just just bury me there;
Place my body in a...
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absent, appreciation, bereavement, confidence, dedication,
Competing Cooperative Archetypes
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Everyday games we play
grow productive successes
and over consuming failures.
Every day and night
we try to reduce
RightWing dominant overproduction
LeftSoul underconsumption,
Gap growing devolution
of bilateral failing anti-invitation.
Every mutual distrusting...
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absent, earth, games, health, integrity,
The Girl
by Saheed Oshodi
In the beginning
I saw her pretty face
Smiling with her teeth with space
I watched her bend over to tie her shoe lace
And I could see...
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absent, crush, cute love, emotions,
Distant Boy
by Rhyn Muller
Do you know how much you mean,
To the distant boy with a gaming screen?
I don't thank you enough for how much you care
And...
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absent, emotions, for her, i
ShotGun Journey
by Gerald Dillenbeck
As absence finds us silently saying goodbye
to everyone,
farewell to every place and memory I cherish
And absent any voluntary theological plans
in conscious development
to ecologically leave...
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absent, age, analogy, health, imagery,
Nurture Yourself Absent
by Caren Krutsinger
She stops at my house nightly
Demanding my full attention. I am apparently the only bridge she has not burned.
Her mother and sisters have blocked her...
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Categories:
absent, for her,