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Premium Member Embrace Your Whimsy - First Place Contest Winner
Grab that whimsey, don't wipe the blow.
The feeling, of fear, starts to grow
Creepy tendrils that dart around
In your head, they can't be bound

Unleash the power...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleaker, analogy, inspiration, muse,
Form: Rhyme



I Am So About This
Standing next to a fire hydrant
Alone
Sitting on a park bench
Bothered by you
rather I be alone
Looking into a broken mirror
Cliche'
People bore me. That they do.
I'm a...

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Categories: bleaker, crazy, dark, deep, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Think Again
Think Again

I think of stuff all day
I think of stuff all night
Sometimes I think stupid
Sometimes I think bright
But I never think it wrong
Cos I am...

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Categories: bleaker, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lament
Lament

Brooding days,
     Vanquished in the unconnected gloom,
            Shower frost,
Standing watch...

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Categories: bleaker, depression, sleep, snow, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Helpfuls
My eyes are getting weaker,
Tho' I seem to see so much more.
My days are getting bleaker, 
Tho' I laugh more oft than before.

A laughter so...

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Categories: bleaker, death, goodbye, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme



What's It Like To Be a Twin
The answer used to come with great ease
My answer wasn’t an answer at all, but a complimentary question,
“What’s it like to not be a twin?”

I...

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© Jim Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleaker, age, relationship, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Graying of Days
The graying of days

Devouring of food becomes the filler !
Days healing rays, it’s light ever shorter !
Misty moments are becoming thicker !
Fog hangs heavy, becoming...

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Categories: bleaker, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Matter
The last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleaker, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Almost, Christmas Story
Almost Christmas according to my calendar,
the stores are decorated and in a clamor;
snow falls in the frozen sky making days bleaker,
a beggar holds out his...

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Categories: bleaker, christmas, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Time To Go
Everything seems better when I am in my own world 
Everything is better when there is no one there
Once when I had someone 
When I...

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Categories: bleaker, sorrow, suicide,
Form: ABC
Wine and a Swine
The weaker 
the wine, 
the bleaker 
the swine.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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Categories: bleaker, animal, depression, drink, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Discombobulated
Old age can be a lonely time for some,
friends become acquaintances, then slip away.
Lifelong achievements bolster your resume,
but as inks fade, memoirs seem so humdrum.
And...

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Categories: bleaker, age, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Trees Speak, Once Again
Once again, the trees speak
 in a soft and gentle whisper
 while subtly dancing in the wind.
Then as witness to my indifference
 it gusts a...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleaker, leaving, tree,
Form: Narrative
The Motivational Speaker
I once heard a girl on Maury call her so-called husband a “motivational speaker”. 
He pimped, cheated, and beat her. 
But she said that he...

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Categories: bleaker, abuse, adventure, betrayal, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ineffable Hosiery
Like a stalking hoarse,

Have endured shrewd days and night,

Like the physician ampoule,

Ready on my skin to pour.

flights from ignorance left these 

Strawberry marks,

Eyes glued on...

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Categories: bleaker, adventure, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs