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Be Your Own Life DJ
...You built the skills, you have done the work, Faced every challenge, adjusted to every quirk. Now comes the fork in the road of life that is yours to face Grab the microphone of life with a warm e......

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Categories: adjusted, analogy, care, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Tabled, As Always
...They all took their seats round the table, It had no head, but all knew where Power sat. Summoned in haste by Ideology itself, for the matter was pressing and oddly stressing. Capitalism sat ba......

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Categories: adjusted, allegory, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Unforgettable Christmas Day
... It had been so long since I’d felt loved and wanted. Then I met John. We basked in our late-in-life romance. Gone was the loneliness that had left me feeling haunted. Our relationship proved I......

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Categories: adjusted, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
The Unexpected Plunge of Reginald Cluck
..."What are you all quacking about?" squawked Reginald Cluck, Peering from his coop, quite out of luck. A drizzle had started, a timid, soft weep, While others still snoozed in feathery sleep. "A......

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Categories: adjusted, fun,
Form: Free verse
Vintage Photography
...Images from a cogged box. A camera reveals hips and ankles, ribbons decorously draped over a contrived modesty. An artist has added a color tint, their cheeks are rosy, their lips red, a pa......

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Categories: adjusted, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Muskrats Attitude Makes Us Happy
...Miss Maddie Muskrat mastered Missouri mud Reveling and rolling in it in a joyful way Catfish groused that she was mucking up the river Bass, bluegill and crappie told catfish off Muskrat makes ......

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Categories: adjusted, animal,
Form: Free verse
Sheep Intestine
...Catgut -------------- Gestures and facial expressions they were advised to differentiate between both fact and fiction to ensure that everyone was on the same page Clear points of ending an......

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Categories: adjusted, culture, music,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Why Be Serious
... What's the big deal Why do we always have to be serious Or well adjusted and stuff like that That's no freaking fun Why can't we run amok through the streets naked Tossing flowers to......

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Categories: adjusted, fun, nonsense, simile,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Power of Raw Vegetables
... Recently my nutritionist – a health freak if ever there was one – suggested I eat raw vegetables like cabbage, kale, asparagus, brussel sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli, all of the crucife......

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Categories: adjusted, health,
Form: Light Verse
666 calls
...Move in the Dark with animal Stamina Annuals Be Jamming Ya, More on the most HIgh More Diatribe about the mote In the minds eye Far as my eye can see So far they spying me So Far the ing co......

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Categories: adjusted, crazy, creation, crush,
Form: Rhyme
A Lonely House in the Steppe - 4
...A Lonely House in the Steppe A lonely house in the vast, open land, With an old woman and a sick child at hand. They are the heroes of this tale I weave, To you, dear reader, their story I leav......

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Categories: adjusted, prayer,
Form: Free verse
not to night
...Not tonight my lovely I must stop writing about The women I met in my tumultuous youth that lasted into middle age touching the years of elderliness I do remember a woman In Taiwan She ......

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Categories: adjusted, angst, anti bullying, baptism,
Form: ABC
Vivares
...Death constantly begs for a bit of you, for just another small bite. From the crib to the grave death begs for morsels. It is a house dog its purpose is to guard the larder. Patched up lim......

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Categories: adjusted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hows Your Dad
...A young man, once a driver, Accused of killing, Left unheard Was thrown into a cell, They say he got what he deserved His girlfriend, just a young girl, Was torn up, and distraught She sent hi......

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Categories: adjusted, abuse, addiction, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dream-like Quality
...What is to be known of the honey comb? A frightening look at overcrowding at home. She comes to this tribal gathering in robes, wearing slippers, newsprint on her thumb. Affection awaits the ......

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Categories: adjusted, dream, poetess,
Form: Ghazal

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