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Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: beggar, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Amendments To Make
The last moment of his life came.
The beyond anxiously awaited to receive him into
Its eternal embrace.

He was terrified!

He asked for some more time. 
He wished...

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Categories: beggar, death, judgement, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member An Ugly World Truth
A faithless entity unhappiness coldly it turns the eyes around coils 
breeding misery a vice with hate that consumes unconscious reality

Crawling underneath a thin veil...

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Categories: beggar, abortion, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Forsooth
In a world ruled by gods and men,
who holds in their hand nature's pen?

When words are smitten to deaf ears,
dost one conclude their deepest fears?

Thy...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beggar, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Unsung Hero - the Soldier
Unsung Hero – The Soldier

Warily he stood at the corner,
Wondering which way to turn.
A weary smile on his faded brow,
As he held out an old...

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© Kika Ayala  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beggar, appreciation, hero, loneliness, soldier,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Friend With Death -
Whether you are a king or a beggar
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Categories: beggar, blessing, health, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth About Truth -
Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at...

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Categories: beggar, sports, future, truth,
Form: Didactic
Upside Down
If the leaf wore a tree
And the ocean ate fish;
If a flower sucked the bee
And beans ate the dish;
If a beggar was chief
And a boy...

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Categories: beggar, funny, song, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jesus - King of the Jews
In His eyes was the wisdom of the ages.
In His hands was kindness and love.
His manner was tender and quiet.
In His smile was a light...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beggar, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
If Only It Was Me
If only it was me who could win this race.
I stand so very proud with honor.
Along with you in my rightful place.

But I am but...

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Categories: beggar, angst, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tempest
The Tempest

Upon enchanted sands of shipbreached shores
Dethroned beggar of a borrowed callow mystery
Heaves a lightning staff into the waves -
Thunderous and raw clandestine secrecy
On luminous...

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Categories: beggar, life, ocean, peace, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The White Roses Died With You
White dove's wings flutter in crepuscular light
As I visit your gravestone's marbled sadness
To let my soul linger through the long night
Still, the loneliness now measured...

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Categories: beggar, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gift
From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beggar, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Poverty Defines True Wealth
 Don't know if human's will ever see
 every soul born, is right where it's meant to be
For the rich to become the richest
 there...

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Categories: beggar, anger, care, change, class,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Don'T Ask Me About My Education
From time to time, people ask me
About my education.
Only then, I remember
I have no degrees or diplomas.
I attended no university either.
I hated textbooks and exams.
I...

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Categories: beggar, angel, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things