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Premium Member I Find Myself In Tears
Thinking memories back in my childhood 
Only the meaningful ones I recall 
I have so many, some bad and some good 

Camping in winter, spring,...

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Categories: arcades, memory,
Form: Terza Rima



Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 2
Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs 
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their...

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Categories: arcades, sea,
Form: Rhyme
The Reluctant Bootscooter
I s’pose you've heard of Tamworth and the shindig there each year, 
where country music reigns supreme and all its stars appear.  
They’re in...

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Categories: arcades, funny, people, music, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Down the Shore
The place to be on a summer night.
When you want to go "down the shore".
A walkway that extends out of sight.
Seashore boardwalk, so much fun...

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Categories: arcades, appreciation, beach, fun, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Warm Night In June
I sit and watch the lights that line the pier

I sit and listen to the waves in the dark

I hear the amusement arcades tunes

On this...

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Categories: arcades, fun, inspirational, night, uplifting,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Magenta Skyline Cluster
First blush fountain azimuth of hued rays
wet patio shrub basket in the haze
zealous heartland tower cry as life force
celebrate and  savour August rare days

Magenta...

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Categories: arcades, beautiful, birth, celebration, dream,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Sunday Morning Programme
Sunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident brass ensemble,
wakey wakey for the pier gazing loiterer...

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Categories: arcades, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Highlights of New Jersey
    "Highlights of New Jersey"



New Jersey is quaintly known as the Garden State for fun
with sandy beaches kissed by ocean waves beneath...

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Categories: arcades, places, education, garden, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Higher Education Undone
There once was a freshman from Thomaston
In ignorance wanted to have just fun
When facing failing grades
Played even more arcades
His higher education now undone  

Syllables:...

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Categories: arcades, education,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Weddng Ceremony of the Dead, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Les Noces De La Mort By T Wignesan
The Wedding Ceremony of the Dead, Part One, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Les Noces de la Mort by T. Wignesan

Orgy of stone !
I drank hate...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arcades, bereavement, marriage, religious,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Creole Townhouse
I visited New Orleans years before hurricane Katrina where hundreds were killed and
eighty percent of the city was flooded.  I saw the Mardi Gras...

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Categories: arcades, city,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Oktoberfest In Munich
When Fall arrives in Munich, Germany,  
Exciting times bring visitors from far and near,

With people dancing, singing, mugs of beer held high,
In halls or...

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Categories: arcades, celebration, drink, food, fun,
Form: Acrostic
The Penny Arcade
The Penny Arcade
 
Back in the 1920's, Americans would go to entertainment
spots around big cities like New York and Chicago, were
you could go to have...

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Categories: arcades, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Ear Wax Art- the Continuing Saga of the Great Belly Button Lint Dust Fire of 93'
I've been collecting ear wax
Since the belly button lint dust fire went bad
I lost all my dignity in that fiasco
So ear wax is all that...

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Categories: arcades, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Potato Pancakes
grandma's potato pancakes
reminds me of my wooden tennis racket
along with my three wheeler big wheel
drench however many with butter and some warm, 
equally buttery grits...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arcades, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs