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Premium Member We'Re Still Here
...en l'an soixante-dix de mon age...

All the familiar names from our youth
now belong to aged, unfamiliar faces.
Even my own reflection startles
as I pass the mirror
hanging...

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Categories: apparatuses, age, angst, change, image,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Guillotine
Does it not shimmer to the shine, the steel blade
Of dead reckonings ultimate design, cold is
Its fine edged point, a slicing masterpiece,
Of revolutionary engineering, behold...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apparatuses, halloween, history, holiday, imagery,
Form: Free verse
How To Have Sex
Begin by swinging from chandeliers when home
Wear matching multicolored harlequin costumes
Equip yourselves with harmonicas and bazookas
Keep lubricants and trampolines near by for safety

Practice lunar landings...

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Categories: apparatuses, crazy, education, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Didactic
The Science of Hate
Hate is a geography 
A floating continent really.
It spends most of its time
In the Far East (the Orient)
And moves west with the sun
To nourish its...

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Categories: apparatuses, angst, conflict, emo, feelings,
Form: Narrative
The Garbage Man
for under 10$ an hourly wage
you too can be the lucky one
who rides around on the back of a pungent & filthy green
garbage truck for...

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Categories: apparatuses, life, people, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Beggars - ***
Unquotable quotes: Beggars - ***

Who said beggars cannot be choosers?

Who chooses for them the place, the moment or the people they choose to beg from;...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apparatuses, august, french, holiday, leadership,
Form: Epigram
How To Do It
Do it without trying
Begin by swinging from chandeliers when home
Wear matching multicolored harlequin costumes
Equip yourselves with harmonicas and bazookas
Keep lubricants and trampolines near by for...

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Categories: apparatuses, abuse, adventure, celebration, education,
Form: Didactic
When Dentist Calls
When Dentist Calls

Clear white tiny whirring brook spirals porcelain down
Monitored through forest of sharp hard objects
In a glare of concentrated artificial brightness
Stark forms, silver entities,...

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Categories: apparatuses, dream, imagery, life, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Escape
Do you still wonder 
now that you’ve been washed out
into fate’s unforgiving seas
why you were sentenced to a life
you swore was in the wrong body?
Living...

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Categories: apparatuses, anger, anxiety, death of
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal - 6
RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 6

(NOTE: This French “ballade” is being composed on permutations of the number ONE repeated twice,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apparatuses, bullying, discrimination, father son,
Form: Ballade
Fire Engine Scarlet Red 12-31-11
fire engine scarlet red 
is the color of the fire fighting Amaranth dead 
who hide there sinful Liability
as they wave at me 
from beyond my...

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Categories: apparatuses, death, education, fire, funeral,
Form: I do not know?
How To Have Sex
Allow DNA to stew for two billion years
Names become important as you mature 
Stay clear of people called Frankenstein
Nature comes equipped with multiple devices
Most animals...

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Categories: apparatuses, age, animal, confidence, education,
Form: Free verse
Lost Battle
He was there recumbent like a log
Cancer has culminated,prevailing over him
Enfeebled all his shielding apparatuses
Yet spurned to frolic prolongation

Eschewed palliative care ministrations
He detected the vital...

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Categories: apparatuses, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
An Open Love Letter
The greatest hustler we will ever know
Is wishful thinking
For something holy.
The deal on the table never really changes.
It has long grown old 
And curdled.
But we...

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Categories: apparatuses, anger, conflict, death of
Form: Narrative
Morning Movements
Bees in jumpsuits cannot really fly but caterpillar boats can go very very fast down the canals. It is an oversized cake that bungee jumps...

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Categories: apparatuses, animal, , cute,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things