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Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion
It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: arrest, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arrest, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: arrest, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Thought Police
I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police

Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping...

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Categories: arrest, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breath of Love
Within each heave grows mild a tender sight
That follows your beat through the hem of night
Where I become a whisper of moon’s delight
To cuddle each...

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Categories: arrest, daughter, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member To Tame the Tempest
They know how to press those buttons,
With just a familiar chosen word or two,
How to enrage one's spirit with a tone,
A glance sharp enough to...

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Categories: arrest, anger, feelings, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: arrest, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother -- Come Home
Sitting with her now
       Watching 
How did she get so old?
       How did...

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Categories: arrest, car, fear, love, mother,
Form: I do not know?
Psycho Evaluation
Psycho Evaluation



    Physically unable to deal with all this stress
        a clinical Psychiatrist said that...

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Categories: arrest, corruption, irony, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Love Sailed Over Seas
TRUE LOVE SAILED OVER SEAS

Have I met trouble when I met your ocean eyes
for beneath that steady gaze, I reach the highest sky?
Slothful moon turned...

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Categories: arrest, growth, inspiration, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Trying To Sleep
I am trying to sleep here; can someone let the world know?

Somewhere the pressure cooker whistles, 
Rises in the night air, the smell of pulao...

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Categories: arrest, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
          ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arrest, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Thoughts Race
The heavy fog slowly lifts in places
Open patches of spring delight and resounds
The look-out crow caws, joyous news abounds
As rooster's crows lands in hollow spaces
The...

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Categories: arrest, anxiety,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Hoodlum-Triple Collaboration With Jan Allison and Marti Sutherland
I followed that cad Robyn Hood 
and discovered he's up to no good 
An expert at cheating 
bad mouthing and bleating 
His actions I've not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arrest, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Silhouette
Out walking on the beach alone, 
Waves breaking with a somber tone. 
I was only a stumble 
From cracking up and crashing down. 
Old driftwood...

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Categories: arrest, allegory, women,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs