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Premium Member Ode To An Impostor
What smug pseudomorph 
inhabits my reflection,

adroitly mimicking my 
every manner and expression,

mercilessly mocking me 
with flawless simulation?
 
She is the great pretender;
a master counterfeiter;
a furtive...

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Categories: adroitly, death, life, me, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Discrimination
However it goes, nobody knows
Whatever your belief
You as you are, and those afar
Through centuries of toil and grief
Hardships they solved, as they evolved
Bring us to...

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Categories: adroitly, discrimination, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lamb Brains For Breakfast
Old heads know more,
but can't explore anymore.
Justly, they exploit experience,
adroitly squishing creativity.
Too old to play,
with naivety....

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Categories: adroitly, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unwritten Absence
My heart enfolded the hued horizon of dazzling dawn,
the yearning brush soaked the sunburst colors,
painted a Monet garden blooming with my love,
unfurled the facsimile of...

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Categories: adroitly, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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Categories: adroitly, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tongue Disease
Tongue; in Valetudinary STATE.
For Barbarous and Flagitious
Portance is very Bedraggled;
A-be-ce-dar-ians,
or the Adroitly,
are ALLERGIC
to Crass and 
Uncouth
LIPS.


Pace, G
04-22-2012...

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Categories: adroitly, life, people,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member The Cost of War Through Peace
"The Cost of War through Peace"

She had spent 
some elaborate 
time 
with snakes,

learning
their ways,
yet in the very 
back of her mind,

in her memories,
she remembered
the stories...

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Categories: adroitly, light, love, mother daughter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903
Ida Kincaid

1866 - 1903


I was Ida Kincaid
Wife of Charles
And mother of a pernicious brood of five sinister sons.
My first born required eighteen hours of excruciating...

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Categories: adroitly, death,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2



He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice...

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Categories: adroitly, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Value of Reading
"The Value of Reading"

messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?

"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late 
when it...

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Categories: adroitly, betrayal, books, death, loss,
Form: Narrative
Equanimity
When equanimity falls to the wayside
And the eyes empirically survey the hillside,
It’s Einstein’s time that I can’t bide,
Mawkish mental masturbation adroitly I chide,
Thy self,
Then my...

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Categories: adroitly, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts 
and oily palms
profiting from all 
the...

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Categories: adroitly, horror, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
If I Was Leonard Nimoy
If I was Leonard Nimoy I would rush about the place, 
I would hold my long pointy fingers in front of me as I sprang...

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Categories: adroitly, humorous, people, me, people,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Thick Skinned - What It Feels Like For a Girl
“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl”



When you speak 
it’s as if stars cascade
out of your mouth 
galaxies you produce
musical incantations 
that...

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Categories: adroitly, abuse, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Come and Go
Her back never faces the door

“I’ll only need you on certain days”

she says
(absently)

“I’ll have to write them down
my memory doesn’t work so well
especially when I...

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Categories: adroitly, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things