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Premium MemberEinstein

...Once there was a young boy
who did not learn at the same pace
who did not race in the same
predictable race – while his peers
played with fish and ball – grew,
traditional degrees from short to ...
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Categories: artfully, art, eulogy, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberdiscordant notes

...This morning we jogged early
I was back in my flat by six-thirty
From my tenth floor view of the Charles River basin,
The morning was incandescently flushed by the peach-colored sun.
The transpar...
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Categories: artfully, humor, leaving, morning, motivation,
Form: Free verse



Whatever You Want It To Be

...Your golden calf
 speaks artfully in my ear
 marketing its millions of worshipers- 

 whispers of temptation to be like you-

If all life produces are idolators
from the gold calves they adore...
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Categories: artfully, introspection, perspective, philosophy, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAge hasn't softened me

...Age hasn’t softened me
Weakened me a bit, perhaps
I speak of a truth I’ve earned
Cherish the right to speak it
Often to the trees and stars
Sometimes cursing those in cars

I ponder often the ...
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Categories: artfully, truth,
Form: Free verse

Scotch Tape Sweepstakes

...Scotch Tape Sweepstakes

The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
appli...
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Categories: artfully, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSunrise Over the Sea

...Morning sunrise breathed light in filagree
burnishing colorful waves across the sea

It delicately wove golden threads of lace
in dawn's sky while it warmed my face

I smiled at the sea's lumin...
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Categories: artfully, morning, sea, sun,
Form: Couplet

Psychedelic

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Passion purple poppies now the world spins
Smokey Sativa surrounds the air breathed within
Yellows, blues, and reds are popping everywhere
Color changing cosmos are...
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Categories: artfully, allusion, beauty, color, drug,
Form: Acrostic

Autumn Leaves

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Summer falls into Autumn's falling leaves, a color contrast of reds, yellows, browns, oranges, and purples in the breeze

All falling floating down from the trees to replenish the earths soil i...
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Categories: artfully, autumn, beautiful, color, tree,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMINDSCAPES made manifest

...landscapes
  inside
 the mindseye

thoughts
 pictured
in
reresentations
  topographcal
terrains
in prospect

elaborate
exotics
  artfully
  engineered

in

  ostensible
outlooks
...
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Categories: artfully, art, introspection,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberUnconscious Bias

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      Unconscious bias can upset one's heart
if kin or friends might shun your written art-
     to look upon good poetry as play-
negating words that might uplift their day.

     Some th...
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Categories: artfully, fate, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Couplet

Premium Memberlulls

...It was 64ºf and overcast this morning when Lisa and I started our 5-mile jog to the Harbor and back. We always start our semesters this way. We’re emotionally ready for fall weather and hopefully, a ...
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Categories: artfully, friendship, humor, morning, school,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKalimba Notes Drift Out

...Kalimba notes drift out
To my delighted ear
As if the Matobo plains
Were conveyed from afar.
The tines - reverberating -
Complete an ethereal bar.
Each bar - artfully plucked -
Speaks kindly t...
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Categories: artfully, africa, heart, music,
Form: Rhyme

Happy shiny tummy courtesy I REM ember in place of stipend

...Happy shiny tummy courtesy...I REM ember in place of stipend

An appetizer, essentially an
out of this world guacamole
quasi Neptune salad,
regarding self taught cook
earning prized counterpart...
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Categories: artfully, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Dance of Dances

...The dance of dances is the one,
You dance with heart and soul,
Like making up your own steps,
In a life-affirming whole.

Nobody hears the music,
In the manner that you do,
Your partner is the...
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Categories: artfully, dance, joy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCHANCE POEM 060524 enigma

...too grand
running
       around
turned 
   to 
    absolute
       sounds

recalled
   secrets
painstakinly
     plotted
&artfully
   arranged
regularly
  contiued

motivates
  thin...
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Categories: artfully, word play,
Form: Other

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