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Are You Dreaming of Winning a Race?
Are You Dreaming of Winning a Race?
(After "Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkle)

Are you dreaming of winning a race,
Harley, Sym, Suzuki, Triumph!
Find sweet success when...

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Categories: backer, adventure, on work and
Form: Free verse



Hardball
I cannot stand playing hard ball, I'm a softball girl, ya know,
Hard ball is for men, I could get hurt by the balls they throw,
I...

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Categories: backer, baseball,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Privilaged To Me
Gray skys backer to the tears; said; to a clearly ominous canvas
Millions of misty dots; swiped right; and left; truncated by this
Blades; so sharply cutting...

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Categories: backer, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Rebirth of My Rigour and Vigour
Cycles of life stream reams of joy and pain
Alternating nets and magnets of sunshine and rain
Sifting through rest and strain  

When by default I...

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Categories: backer, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Knocker B
KNOCKER.B

Yes here we are in the great south land,   (Australia)
right amongst the knockers be.
Don't stick your nose up or be grand,
they'll stomp yer...

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Categories: backer, angstpeople, people,
Form: Rhyme



What I'Ve Been To You
I’ve always been your number two
The person left behind

That person staring at your back
While you’re waiting in a line

I’m your knight in shining armor when...

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Categories: backer, life
Form: Rhyme
A Word From Your Sponsor: Part Two
at this junction in your journey at this pivotal point in your life
you need to hear a word from your Sponsor, the Lord Jesus Christ
so...

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Categories: backer, faith, hope, inspirational, peace,
Form: Carpe Diem
Enough Has Been Enough
Enough Is Enough Horn Haiku

enough is enough
trump really was terrible
so we should impeach

completely absurd
totally denigrating
should get rid of trump

had been Bellau Wood
soldiers wounded and they...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backer, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Second Round
It is time for the second round 
In this ghastly ghost town 
Looking out there 
Scenery that is a scare 
They want to do it...

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Categories: backer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Directions
Take that road down yonder, she said
Toward the signpost that reads, lickskillet
Turn right up thar and then left after that
To a highfulootin road that’s paved...

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Categories: backer, america, people, perspective, travel,
Form: Free verse
Iran Israel Conflict
Israel,since its creation in 1948,has close ties with Iran,which becomes the second Muslim country to recognise the Jewish state after Turkey.They become allies under the...

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Categories: backer, conflict, divorce, friend, high
Form: Other
Premium Member Capable Mind and Hands
I am not a Looker-backer – 
forward projection mostly
my way; in fact, often 
choosing the path of strongest
resistance, leaning into a
Head-wind, till so far inclined
my...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backer, creation, humanity, inspirational, journey,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dumbstruck-Dk
I’m dumbstruck by the good luck
Of a woodchuck on a spree
The harmony of living well
And laughing heartily 

But still, I often wonder
In a jungle canopy
If...

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Categories: backer, passion, planet, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Narcissistic Commitment
People don’t think of you the way that you like 
who do you think you’re conning when talking all that ite 
blagging everybody you come...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backer, abuse, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Dire Desire To Meet Vampire
About Herschel Walker

did have desire
had mentioned a vampire
conditions are dire

patience wearing thin
level of an Olympian
werewolf was in din

was so much suspense
discovered that he is dense
never...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backer, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

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