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Nau-Til-Us: An Approximate Creature
Nautilus, chambered. 
Mathematics? Not really. 
By nature only. 

Smells more like…
Ah…normal distribution
(Of golden spirals). 

You could look it up. 
FIBONACCI? Not really. 
Logarithmic coil?

Not exactly....

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Categories: approximate, math
Form: Haiku



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: approximate, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
The Violence of Money
There is never an ending
		to the spending
	a world of paper
and plastic to collect
and horde
	clothes
	and cars
	and homes
	and jewelry
	and fine wine
	and paintings
	stocks and bonds
	vacations 
and expectations
entire vocations...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approximate, anger, anxiety, violence,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ekphrasis On House of Parliament At Sunset
stupendous silhouette of castle 
piercing through hazy fog
reminds me of your shadow
as you come to meet me at twilight

mixed hues of spectral sky 
reflected in...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approximate, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Coplas On Wine By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Coplas on Wine

( here, the famous AntiPoetic Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra, b. 1914, uses the more popular form of the « copla » genre that...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approximate, celebration, passion, poetry, song,
Form: Quatrain



Aphrodite As An Anthropomorphic Map
The goddess we call Aphrodite
Is not just an old Grecian deity.
  The Phoenicians did make
  Her a map. It's not fake.
Her body is...

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Categories: approximate, africa, body, imagery, language,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member People of Faith
It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.

After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?

Our faith...

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Categories: approximate, culture, earth day, education,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member After School Jam Session
How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I'm not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped...

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Categories: approximate, culture, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Soulful Cry of Anguish Against Fate
A Soulful Cry of Anguish against Fate

(“The Tale of the Lonely Ghost”, a film (2013) by ANUP SINGH - who collaborated on the screenplay as...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approximate, death, first love, grief,
Form: Elegy
Onam Carnival of Kerala-2
“ the problem with Equality is that we desire it only with our superiors”


“Equal were all and happy they all were,
Deceits and falsehoods were unheard...

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Categories: approximate, day, faith, sea, social,
Form: Shadorma
Premium Member Under the Red Umbrella
UNDER THE RED UMBRELLA 

Under the red umbrella, sheltered in our rainy day nest,
my coal black heel lifts — our oneness beats in my chest.
Handsome...

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Categories: approximate, paris, rain, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Incurable Society's Ills
Two scales must always be within an approximate range
for an accurate weight, and the close relationship
between the Humankind and God must withstand any change.


Solutions must...

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Categories: approximate, adventure, confusion, health, natural
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Flavor Sensations
We push to imitate nature's
flavors, both sour and sweet;
compare the taste of lemons
to that of a lush, ripe peach,
or the nectar of pure honey
to the...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: approximate, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We'Ll All Become Robots
It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide...

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Categories: approximate, future,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Flower Bed
She sleeps under her perennial sheets
Her mattress is six feet deep
The head and footrest approximate her size
Her hand holds a single red rose that cries

Years...

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Categories: approximate, betrayal, rose,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things