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The Sphnx's Rddle....Pt.1
from crude beginnings came primitive man
learning to cope with natures darkened wilderness,
wild plants,wild animals,wild environment,and
day to day uncertain productiveness...

an animal by nature,commuting the body with...

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Categories: appropriated, history, mysterynature, animal, animal,
Form: Free verse



The Hen House
Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I...

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Categories: appropriated, care, class, environment, farewell,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Mule
Mutated meaning mutilated in existence
Utility in slave work the only definition left
Latent purpose without deferred fulfillment 
Exempted from kind, creation's prophecy

    ...

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Categories: appropriated, animals, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Snow Dancer
SNOW DANCER

I am amazed at switch the goods
Before so apostolic
And now so different
To one’s mind.
Are you, my milk tooth
A passion-flower nun
Or an old maid
Married with...

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Categories: appropriated, fantasy, sweet, me, sweet,
Form: Lyric
A Poet To His Beloved
All the praises you pick along the streets
Go confirm before a new-bought mirror,
And if those rare glories you all find true
Then know she’s near that...

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Categories: appropriated, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member What Might Be Seen
Natural predication
greets sacred promise
to restore peaceful justice.

Omnipresent predication
greets polypathic promise
for restoring love as grace-filling justice.

Omnipotently disintegrative powers
of HellFire prediction
too quickly settle for monoculturing retribution,
punishment
due to...

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Categories: appropriated, culture, integrity, love, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud In New York Harbor
When did the arms of Lady Liberty turn inwards
Her torch extinguished; her poem long forgotten?
You have heard me say it often since begotten
That which makes...

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Categories: appropriated, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”



Inside 
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost 

IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone, 
in our dark

there, IT...

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Categories: appropriated, i am, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ode To America
My fellow countrymen, the President, Politicians, and pulpiteers                 ...

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Categories: appropriated, america, conflict, confusion, god,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Wake Up George Floyd Wake Up These Are the Voices of Victumised Black Man In the Usa Part 2
Off a righteous God America stop the persecutions
We are due out love from you; Stop the profiles 
And stand in our shoes and skin for...

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Categories: appropriated, america, analogy, black african
Form: Dramatic Verse
Appropriate This
I was walking down to the taco joint
wearing my new conical Chinese hat,
I looked how it looked, it gave me some flair,
but some beta-hipster took...

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Categories: appropriated, culture, growth, how i
Form: Rhyme
Currency Combusted
Appropriated snatch of silver coins
A veritable gamble to grab bag the mantle
Circulating hand to hand, finger to dust
Or swirling computer screens reminding what must
Be sought...

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Categories: appropriated, freedom, relationship, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxxiii - Continued
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXIII

IF ever I had a country re-made by the Revolutionary
And if ever I were that Corsican Napoleon who...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appropriated, humor, paris, satire, teenage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Virtual Rarities
VIRTUAL RARITIES
techniques
 transformed
to
explore
 the potentials &
 possibilities
of
  modelling
the
initiative&
 generatively
 appropriated &
reimagined

renditions
surrounded
by
 iterative complexity
 extracted
&
merged
 with the
visual

expressing
a mood
static
 tangible
& prominent
inn
 alternatives
stylised imagery
  symbolised
by
 the
 serene
  introspective
 distilled
  with
 uncertainty
marginalised
in
precedents by
conceptual
 stereotypes
  expressed
 in token
proponents
so finely
tuned

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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Categories: appropriated, poetry,
Form: Other
Tempests May Come
I'm weaker than you
And just as frightened.
I have cowed and hoarded
While you braved harsh years
Holding back nothing.

Your pilgrimage cannot be appropriated or diluted
You journey to...

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Categories: appropriated, appreciation, city, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things