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Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: busted, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Can'T Get High Enough
I started sucking my thumb until it looked like a plumb
Things didn't feel any better so I poured a glass of rum
Some will imagine I'm...

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Categories: busted, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
8 Mile Style
8MILE8MILE    .     .     .     .     ....

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Categories: busted, career, humor, music, rap,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: busted, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of...

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Categories: busted, america, dark, death, drink,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: busted, angst, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member He Wasn'T
He was an ugly handsome 
In a foreword  backwards kinda way
Silent and outspoken 
with nothing great to say

Strong with a strange weakness
Secrets he could...

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Categories: busted, addiction, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beyond
Bluebells and butterflies await     beyond a rusted busted gate...

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Categories: busted, beautiful,
Form: Monoku
Two Hand Clap
I've got a fist full of Buddha,
And a fist full of Rand,
A pocket full of Jesus,
And the other's filled with sand,
That's in case I need...

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Categories: busted, america, anti bullying, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Hashtag My Life Matters
#MyLifeMatters

My hands are up don't shoot!!

I'm a black man, with feelings and a valued life,
Please, I've done nothing wrong, point the gun the other way.
At...

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Categories: busted, abuse, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Nascar Wild Man Willy
The speedometer busted sixty, motor screaming r r r s,
Smoked his firestones weavin’ and passin’ cars!

He slammed third dumped the clutch and headed north, 
At...

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Categories: busted, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
I Love America, Differently, In Fuller History
I
The Servants of Free Men on the Mayflower
Knew "abundant life" in Jesus, Great Savior
Two servants, too, rose up to sign The US Constitution
Lover of His...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: busted, america, appreciation, celebration, community,
Form: Verse
Why Dot Won'T Leave the Farm
Dot Blogs she was a buxom lass and hefty heifer too
who married Bobby Eugene Blows when she was twenty- two.
They lived upon a dairy farm...

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Categories: busted, humorous, night, old, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Calling Oneself a Poet
Calling oneself a poet takes unmitigated gall and guts  
And he or she should be prepared 
To throw oneself off a high cliff
Or under...

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Categories: busted, bullying, courage, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fishing Tackle Tm
The trousers he's wearing are Wrangler -
they're great for his job as an angler
(although on a trip
he busted his zip
and showed all those present his...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: busted, clothes,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs