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Premium Member It Is a Sin
It is a sin
for Gregory to be a miser
even to himself
accumulating infinite fortune
with a half-bedroom to show for it

It is a sin
for miss Zane to gain special gratitude
from her male mates.
Coming late every night
with a different driver,
parading her flashy dividends
as she becomes a model for...

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Categories: castigating, inspirational, life, pain, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Lincolns Lesson Learned
Hard driven by the embarrassment,
                                   His temper Flared bright in youth,
...

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Categories: castigating, america, beautiful, blessing, community,
Form:
Premium Member This Calming Sea
THIS CALMING SEA

I sit here in the darkness at a window
that mirrors my wild mane, unruly me
Imagine how in time this house will grow
around me, a Rapunzel, you will see

My hair in braids grow down a castle vast
The nurses turned to wicked witches, wild
If you...

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Categories: castigating, abuse, anxiety, bird, introspection,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Bird Gone Cold
How bad I feel when the glass fell? 
Accompanying my chattering heart is the loud clatter
Piercing through my heart is your cold silence
Reasons for which I can't phantom 

You deprive me your smile
You deny me your pretty face. 

As I watch a one time smiley...

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Categories: castigating, allegory, allusion,
Form: Ballad
Silence Is Deafening
Three days late,
and a dollar of truth short
No condemnation of neo-Nazi hate,
no negative KKK report
Only tweet silence was heard ... 
didn’t hear a peep, not one word
Domestic terrorists
were Tiki torching a church
late that night
Shouting ethnic and racial slurs
Aryan imperialists,
proud patrons of John Birch
causing heavy fright
They...

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Categories: castigating, allusion, dark, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Filthy, Stinking Money
Stinking, dirty money
Foul, festering money
Putrid, gassy money
Rotten, disgusting money
Oppressing, cruel money
Castigating, merciless money
Admonishing, finger-wagging money
Subjugating, stone-faced money


Aah, money…
That your kiss is so sweet,
Your embrace so sensuous,
Your possibilities so tempting…
I am dirty with your scent...

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Categories: castigating, on work and working,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The Dance Poetic Repeated
THE DANCE POETIC (just a play with words, acrostic variation)

    T     tantalizing, titillating theater, transpires
    H      head-on, hesitating hovering hoopla,
    E      ...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, dance, poetry, word play,
Form: Acrostic
A You Are Adorable
A You Are Adorable

A you are always adorable
B you have become affordable
C you could be incredible
D Don't eat is uneatable
E Ended up saying it eloquent
F For everyone forgave each sin
G God is great and Amen
H Is how bad I have been
I Is for idiot in...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, humorous,
Form: Limerick
On Ps Preaching
There is a place for the poetic preacher,
even in this forum---one can so feature
a castigating word, narrow-minded screed,
up to each person to decide what they read,
and while I don’t much like damning lines,
exploding like old-fashioned land mines,
I’ll hold my tongue while they do their work,
unless...

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, bullying, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Quangos
So many of them abound
They make for a burdensome crown
Worn by a government needing to be overthrown
Is it time to kick all these bureaucrats
Out of town?

The mangling of democracy by quangos
Is the new autocracy
A daily cross to bear
For which we have a lot of resentment...

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Categories: castigating, political,
Form: Free verse
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023
Inspection took place February 17th, 2023...

At 1330 hours (indicated
courtesy notification slipped under door
less than twenty four hours)
hence foretold ill fate
by property (crooks and quade) management
the head honcho zaftig, wanker,
(who replaced the warden)

and Rich (BOLD FACE 
text mode) the snitch
at Highland Manor Apartments
re: looming eviction implication
cuz...

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Categories: castigating, adventure, america, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Trump Cucaracha Cockaraca
Trump Cucaracha Cockaraca 

All of Trump's elegance started to erupt
Talking about how everyone is corrupt
He clumsily choses to be celebrating
And adversaries constantly castigating.

He slipped all of his savings under a rug
Net worth equals nichol which was a plug
And all stock marketeers have concurred
None of Trump's...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: castigating, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Couplet
First Amendment In Jeopardy
Lifeblood of democracy hemorrhaging
ousting the "FAKE" president only recourse
to staunch impending grim demise,
since forefathers drafted
United States Constitution
ratified more'n two centuries ago

hoi polloi must take to the streets
denouncing severe curtailment
impinging sacred freedom of speech
linkedin with paramount bedrock provision
accessing unvarnished flint stoned "truth,"
nonetheless commander in chief

he quakingly,...

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Categories: castigating, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ode
Redemption Lost and Silenced Courtesy of Trump 1 Part A
Jabbering Ignominious Hypocrite Gabbles - against the backdrop of gross unbridled viscous wracking zealotry bruiting extinguishing inherent national trust...  

Poetic Introduction:

I wax and wane rhapsodic
plus prosaically politic
aware severe erosion
of American democracy

over run by narcissistic
over stuffed ego-freezer,
whose vocabulary
extremely laconic

foe swash buckling braggadocio
commander in chief
not gun...

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Categories: castigating, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025
Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025...

but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine days later (due the math and inform me of any error if applicable), which date will be March 28, 2025.

My entire body electric...

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Categories: castigating, absence, angel, anger, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things