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Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: applies, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ripping
You ripped me 
One word at a time
Shredded my smile
Pulled at my sensitivity
I was never strong enough 
To pull back my paper heart

You took the...

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Categories: applies, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: applies, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Knickerless Vicar - Contains Innuendo :- Collaboration With Nina Parmenter
For a man of the cloth, our dear vicar
is not very partial to clothes
He is almost allergic to trousers
and y-fronts get right up his nose.

Ev’ry...

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Categories: applies, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Airbrushed and Abused
Airbrushed and abused 

There are those who make me question myself,
the picture presented, is it really that blurred
Details on the edges of watercolor dreamscapes
melt into...

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Categories: applies, introspection,
Form: Free verse



I Robbed God
I was once a thief, never done for Stealing guns,
or knives. Money, laundering offences, or Somebody’s wife. 
I robbed God of tithes that I must...

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© Abraham L  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: applies, faithgod, god,
Form: I do not know?
Nothing Compares To Freedom
TO THE RULING CLASSES

It’s been seven months and fifteen days
Since you took our freedom away

At home each every night, stay in all day
Since you took...

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Categories: applies, political,
Form: Ballad
Guardian of the Environment - Indigenous Peoples
For several thousands of years
you upheld the sacredness of Nature
avoiding wanton destruction 
of plant and animal life
taking only what you needed
since their sacredness was 
just...

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Categories: applies, abuse, animal, environment, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pi Day
On March fourteenth, the day of pi
I pined to buy an apple pie
A python spied me at the door,
a sharp-eyed pirate on the floor

Oh piebald...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: applies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Ketchup
For hamburgers hotdogs and french fried potatoes
add the sweet savory sauce a gift from tomatoes
Ketchup Ketchup pour it thick
for bland foods it does the trick

Scramble...

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Categories: applies, fruit, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Letter To My Dogs
(Even If You Are A Cat Person This Applies To You)

Dear Dogs,
When I say to move it means go someplace else, not switch positions with...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: applies, funny, pets,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Perseverance
Perseverance is surely the name of the game
With every challenge before you
It applies to the highest mountains you climb
Ignoring distractions is the clue 

Roadblocks are...

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Categories: applies, life, success,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Giving Thanks For 2015 and Every Year
G od’s love and all the things He’s given me:
I ntelligence, abilities, free will,
V im for living life, the poetry
I nside me, for the muse...

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Categories: applies, holiday, me,
Form: Acrostic
Val, the Valiant Little Witch
Val was graduating from school,
Her grade point average was good-
Halloween night was her big debut, 
A difference she’d make, if she could! 

She liked to...

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Categories: applies, courage, children, kids, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Here Be Keys
Sabers of the light…calm and friendly in showing appreciation…exuberant energy to burn…New powerful self-defense…Energetic straight forward shooter…Logically love applies knowledge…inventive soft gently touch…Good physical desires…honest....

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Categories: applies, faith, inspiration, true love,
Form: Prose Poetry

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