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Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: attainable, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Butterfly
I pursued a butterfly through the woods.
It fluttered, just always beyond my reach.
The more I pursued, the more it teased.
Stalking it, like prey, it just...

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Categories: attainable, children, philosophy, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Supernova Bossa Nova
Now I’m ninety solar masses and I grow as I accrete
all the inter-stellar gasses near my neighbors when we meet.
My doctor says I’ve grown too...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: attainable, dance, introspection, science, star,
Form: Personification
Unattainable
Satisfying founts of passions, a celebration remains unattainable
Like admiring the unreachable, possession remains unattainable.

Carved pains from which to heal, an abiding endeavour
As pleasure of the...

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Categories: attainable, art, beauty, inspiration, passion,
Form: Ghazal
Achilles and the Tortoise
In ancient times as told in rhymes 
    there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead 
   ...

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Categories: attainable, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Freedom Within
Freedom can be found within you
When you let go of what binds you
Maybe a purpose, you once sought
That only leads to doors closing
Recognizing time spent...

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Categories: attainable, freedom, introspection, life, time,
Form: Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22
The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools...

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Categories: attainable, beauty, bible, confusion, courage,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Needy
Needy

Wants!
They are so hard to handle.
Everyone has one, even if they don’t want one. 
Some try to hide theirs, but it shows. 
I hate to...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: attainable, atheist, city, community, crazy,
Form: Narrative
' the Face of Love '
Will I Recognize… The Face Of Love?
Or the Wonderful, Bedazzled Appearance of:
A Moon-kist Meadow, Hushed and Dark
A Solitary Silhouette, this Beauty Mark,
Windswept Grasses, like a...

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Categories: attainable, adventure, allegory, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Ode
Imaginings
If your mindset isn't producing the wettest type of wet, you've forgotten how to dream. How to fall asleep in one state and arise in...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: attainable, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A honey baked life
Promised a honey baked life by Uncle Sam,
a V.A. loan, and a mini-van.
Three kids and a fenced yard.
It should be attainable to those who
worked so...

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Categories: attainable, america, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bottom Line - Think Happy
True happiness is attainable for everyone
It's just a matter of mind over matter
It's quite simple when you think about it
A positive approach to life makes...

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Categories: attainable, happy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Year of the Goat 2015
Cymbals and fireworks crisp and crescendo through the
black of night past the chrysanthemums displays
for the year of the Goat begins.

from the mainland Chinese tourist arrive
red...

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Categories: attainable, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Yes You Can
Feel to the anguish of the less fortunate
Picture those who opt for shortcuts in life
Sense their grief for they’ve missed out
They forgot a simple life’s...

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Categories: attainable, courage, grandson, inspirational, school,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 14
6 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our...

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Categories: attainable, adventure, , cute,
Form: Epic

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