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The Truth About Adhd
Growing up with ADHD forces you to adapt,
impulsive behaviour controls how you react,
attention span wanders and naturally distracts,
you face an impact, that in fact, doesn't...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapted, anti bullying, perspective, psychological,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Magic Beans
It was magic beans you placed in my hand as we held
Ones you nurtured,  embedded deep within your love
I know because it tormented me with...

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Categories: adapted, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Damsel Enchants Felicity
A  DAMSEL  ENCHANTS  FELICITY



Aurora breaks,

Cinderella  damsel  enchants  felicity,

gliding   halcyon--

implanting   jazzy  kisses,

languorous murmurs. . ....

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Categories: adapted, feelings, love, relationship, romance,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Perpetual Symphony of Spears and Daggers
he was like autumn
all around him 
                  ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapted, dad, death, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touch the Sky
Romantics weave a web of hope
spun from frayed threads of a daydream.
Yet, it's as strong as any rope
and as bracing as a cool stream.
Life offers...

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Categories: adapted, anxiety, deep, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rhythm of a Distant Song
The storms were strong with the wind fierce and the waves high
Always trying to stay afloat, to not drown and try to learn to fly
Survival...

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Categories: adapted, appreciation, endurance, peace,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Trip of My Life
the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in...

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Categories: adapted, travel,
Form: Haibun
Hustler
The sun is really high and hot;
his three-day shirt is all wet.
He carry academic papers in his file;
every day he walks for more than a...

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Categories: adapted, africa, life, loneliness, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Little Piece of Crumpled Silver Paper
John Weaver 2000 (Emily has cerebral palsy)

Her room is not the sort of room you’d quite expect to find
For a little girl whose love of...

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Categories: adapted, caregiving, daughter, inspirational, love,
Form: Personification
A Moral Dilemma
...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his...

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Categories: adapted, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member She'Ll Always Go On Believing
Sue doesn’t sit so demurely in her motorised wheelchair.
She’ll tell folks to stop gawking as it's very rude to stare!
Beneath her tenuous frame is quite...

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Categories: adapted, character, girl, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Death of An Immortal
I was born in a time
When the thrills of a thriller
Did move the bricks
Of the thickest of walls.

I grew in an era
When the dynasty of...

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© Dowell Oba  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapted, death, epic
Form: Ballad
Premium Member How To Write a Pantoum Rhyme
Typically,  a pantoum is made up of two rhyming couplets, however, Western writers altered and adapted the form, the importance of rhyming and brevity...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapted, poems, , western,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member A Moment In Time
A fleeting moment in time,
Is all I need for this rhyme,
Perhaps 10 minutes, no more
Sit in your armchair, close your eyes,
And to your utmost surprise,
Your...

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Categories: adapted, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Miss You Big Brother Potd
Remember when we were young, you and I 
Bit of boyish mischief we used to cause 
The swearing, pushing, shoving, and punches 
We'd put on...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adapted, brother, mom, youth, ,
Form: Pantoum

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