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Premium Member Character
Inside my heart I have unwritten codes
Those values I enforce by self demand
Unbreachable, my lines drawn in the sand
Their presence helps to navigate my load

With...

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Categories: assessed, character,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member The Worst and Best Christmas Ever
It was December Christmas eve, and it was snowing outside
Kids were making snowmen and some boys had made a slide 
Our eight year old daughter...

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Categories: assessed, car, christmas, daughter, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Undressed- a Collaboration
She felt his presence by her side
Her first reaction – unimpressed.
She turned her head, a toss of hair,
The situation she assessed.

Maybe it was the dauntless...

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Categories: assessed, longing, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ### - ## - #### (Number 9)
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There you go you have been identified 
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You have been marked 
Branded, tracked, and electronically lo-jacked
Forever part...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: assessed, life, people, sadday,
Form: Free verse
The Truth In Time
Time is the most precious possession the universe holds.
It is powerful beyond all measure.
It is loyal but also very unforgiving.

Time will test our strength and...

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Categories: assessed, character, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hostage In An Office
When a department wants to get rid of a worker, 
The processes used can be slow,
Transferring to a place where they will be moot, 
Ignoring...

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Categories: assessed, career, work,
Form: Quatrain
One Heck of a Trek
7/29/18





All over the road, about to wreck
One of many causes for yet another death


Too many chickens giving each other pecks
They just look and rubberneck


Person overboard,...

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Categories: assessed, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Undressed
She felt his presence by her side
Her first reaction – unimpressed.
She turned her head, a toss of hair,
The situation she assessed.

Maybe it was the dauntless...

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Categories: assessed, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Craft Can Capture It
Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: assessed, adventure, art, brother, dedication,
Form: Narrative
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: assessed, adventure, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Like a Broken Teacup
Sitting on the shelf like a broken teacup
I go on despite these difficult moments
I run into myself with Irish green eyes and permanent tear stained...

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Categories: assessed, allegory, angst, husband, recovery
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Windstorms of Neglect
Dearest Sons
and dearest Cinderella StepSister,
I regret ways I have failed each of you.

From today's view of memory clips,
frames as farms of teaching-learning times,
my Great Lover...

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Categories: assessed, culture, family, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Calamity the Great Iii
Swept by waves of nostalgia
Afloat on longing tides
I assessed this oyster compound
where my heart could not abide.
Aphrodisiac pulls of Neptune
were as lava cooled to stone
What...

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Categories: assessed, funny, sea, longing, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Do It Again
A life, years before, had begun,
Now … nearly over and done
   Down a lane
   Just to obtain
Life’s irrepressible lesson.

‘T is not...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: assessed, encouraging, friend, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member There Once Was a Man
There Once Was A Man ...

There once was a man, oh so brave
Who would sleep in a hole, called a grave ...
Well, him being the...

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Categories: assessed, funny,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs