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Premium Member - Haiku X 125 - Frog -
the princess and frog

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Categories: 125, animal, love, princess,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member A Brief History of Progress Over the Past 125 Years Or So
Technology ascending
  Traditional religion ending
Robots comprehending
  Life's secrets upending

Black holes extending
  Cyber wars impending
Electronic devices contending
  Wizard-like gurus pretending

Media noise unrelenting
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Categories: 125, faith, holocaust, life, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wind Songs
Romance me with your flirty breeze,
Susurrate songs in leafy trees.

March winds you clash with tidal flows,
Keep waves in hindered highs and lows.

Your power paves a...

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Categories: 125, love, wind,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Painting the Town Red
In her resting place — she’d toy
with shadows, matchsticks
and glow in the dark paint.

Out and about — she’d fly
through the night, wax her teeth
and loudly...

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Categories: 125, horror,
Form: Verse
Nobody
My anger and sadness won't cease in each new day
satan taking the Unborn's lease, but not of my say
For I can but only speak and...

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Categories: 125, fear, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Body Still Moves

my mind is frozen

in moments

your last breath I keep


_____________________________
June 22, 2018


Poetry/Free Verse/my body still moves
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1034-125-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for...

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Categories: 125, grief,
Form: Free verse
Dear Father Son and Holy Spirit
Dear Father Holy Spirit and Son

You turned what could have been a tragedy into a special day of fun
You got me off the interstate before...

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Categories: 125, religion,
Form: ABC
Premium Member The Chisel
Familiarity
Can sometimes be
A chisel
That slowly chips away
At human souls
Stripping first the aura
Then splintering
The shiny, pearly shell
To finally bear 
The red, raw meat
That often brings contempt.


Sandra...

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Categories: 125, friendship, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arte Mayor: Neither Cricket Nor Football
ARTE MAYOR*: Neither Cricket nor Football

Is this the way to prop A-first
Sock not oval ball overhead
Slam not round ball with drumstick dead
Cut not corporate tax:...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 125, baseball, england, football, games,
Form: Political Verse
Being 14
It's about being
14 again man
that's what it's
all about

Pool parties Teen dances
Kiss romances
mini skirts
no beer no drugs
no cigs

care free free
days but be
sure to tuck
your head between...

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© Gary Dye  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 125, angst, drug, , 4th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skin Tones
What is the color of your skin?
Yellow as the radiance of the sun that yields 
to the ticking drips of morning's climb ;
or black in...

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Categories: 125, color, prejudice, race, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Where Is the Outrage
I think we should consider this!
We all get berserk over a mass
shooting in the USA, yes?

However, where are your tears for
125, 000 unborn children who...

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Categories: 125, abortion, angst, birth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Mystique- a Biography
 

"I am everywhere, I am nowhere, a shadow unchained and 
unleashed. The world made me this way, so let the world suffer."  ...

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Categories: 125, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Young, Skinny Fellers Needed!
"Young, skinny, wiry fellows needed!" want ads and posters stated!
(Thus the Pony Express to deliver the western mail was created!)
"You mustn't weigh over 125 pounds...

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Categories: 125, historybible, bible, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Life Lost,Life Saved
I saw something  yesterday let me 
share the news
Put things in perspective and gave
me the blues
This is the story and it’s all I know
Don’t...

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Categories: 125, death, education, faith, fear,
Form: ABC

Book: Reflection on the Important Things