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Premium Member My Brother
Livers
	bleed

lungs	
	gasp for breath


vessels of poetry
	read

pain disappears
	tears recede

love floats above the sea
	tides of sadness

recede
	planted in marshlands

seeds
	friendship bloomed

living for words
	no longer matters

I embrace my brother
	love his might

standing...

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Categories: africa, arabic, art, brother,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - My Brother Stole My Halloween Candy -
Listen this is no comedy
                    ...

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Categories: brother, candy, funny, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging
A funny thing happened on the way to my hanging
Couldn't sleep the night before my head was banging
I was innocent of a crime that I...

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Categories: brother, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watercolor Afternoon
The rain set me adrift inside a dream
My mind was on a painting miles upstream
An unforgotten "en plein" I once viewed
A light pastoral springtime interlude

Two...

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Categories: brother, emotions, memory,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Forty Today
Visited you today
as the sun set in the horizon…

the orange tinged carnations 
were a perfect complement 
for the skies
and for you… 
orange and blue
always remind...

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Categories: brother, dedication, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shattering Rose Coloured Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was colour blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: brother, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Littlest Snowman
He scooped and he packed
He rolled me good and round,
When all was done, I stood there
Only three feet off the ground

I had wondered why...
Why did...

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Categories: boy, brother, children, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Standstill
Strangely bent this journey extends
Surreal at times, yet so real at ends
Each end confronts with a hardship of choices
With an abrupt passing, or an eternity...

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Categories: brother, death, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Galaxies Came Between
He'd be typing away on his desk
with blueprints for the next big thing,
While I'd be staring off into the azure sky
appreciating the "insignificant" things

You really...

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Categories: brother, confusion, dedication,
Form: Prose Poetry
Winter Walking Blues
Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...

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Categories: brother, childhood, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Football, Beer, His Car and Kid
-The Same Old SongS-

That's all he ever talks about 


~SKAT~...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, brother, family,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Man and His Tree
Armed with chainsaws in the field, two young men are shirtless guests
with shoulders bronzed by sun and sweat.
The timbre in the August sun has scattered...

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Categories: bereavement, brother, goodbye, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simply Time To Go, a Little Brother's Lamentation
Too hard for me to say goodbye
For all apparent reasons why
Even though we all know it must be
Each heart will someday stop the beat
When the...

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Categories: brother, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Remission (In Memory of William Watt).
Birth begins the tragedy in us. Life's
First sound is a blank scream
Against sorrow's hidden portends of strifes
All we know are mirages and dream.

Mother took the...

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Categories: brother, death, nostalgiaworld, time,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things