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Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: characterization, political
Form: Couplet



An Unfinished Characterization of Quasimodo
I AM QUASIMODO, THE BELLRINGER OF NOTRE DAME,
WHOSE FATED MYSTERY IS TO SUMMON THE MASSES
UPON THE APPOINTED HOURS OF THEIR FAITH.

A MISBEGOTTEN BIRTH HAS BROUGHT...

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Categories: characterization, introspection, mysterysound, mystery, sound,
Form: Narrative
I Am
I am a woman
Beautiful and kind

I am a writer
Poetry is always in my mind

I am a singer 
a soulful era of the generation

I am a...

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Categories: characterization, passion, me,
Form: Acrostic
Who Shall You Believe
An Elderly.

Introduction tells you,
Who shall you believe?  
Listen sometimes to your senses
your sadness or your joy.
If you are downhearted you cannot 
perceive any happiness...

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Categories: characterization, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Dont Have a Pen
Illumination from the entrance
Make it vivid that Jefferson is ‘crazy’
Scripts splatter on the bare floor
Engulf with writings from the mind
Dramatizing the lines with emotions
Aghast! I...

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Categories: characterization, angst, inspirational, irony,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



She's In Drag Mode
If that's what she did,
than trust me,
you're not under a lid,

she flipped it-

added pressure to admit ...

Characterization of the limitless,
shindig-less,
hard nosed,
pencil printed,
breaking of embarrassment,

getting others...

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Categories: characterization, appreciation, color, dark, growing
Form: Free verse
The Apartment
Bed

Shakes and slumber alike
Float upon me
Wet emotion
Soaks through and stains
For her smiles
And his furrowed brow
Imprint
The laughter and pain

Mirror

Me, the shine and prism
Of her hatred
Endless hours...

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Categories: characterization, confusion, devotion, friendship, sad,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
An instrument of beauty,
poetry is art at its best
with its verses of passion
penned with love
in assorted and variegated
metrical composition
with sublime and
aesthetically satisfying flow.

It is a...

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© Ed Coet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: characterization, education, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between the Wavy Lines - Non-Shakespearean
ask yourself this:

do I, a romantic fool, dare
pretend to write of your perfect shape?
oh yes, I do … I must!
for your unadorned contours are
overwhelmingly staggering...

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Categories: characterization, art, beauty, body, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Tv Reality
TV Reality

Survivors of Amazing Race
met The Nanny whose Big Brother
was The Bachelor who 
had an Extreme Makeover
in 48 Hours



Addictive Characterization...

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Categories: characterization, funny
Form: Light Verse
Back From the Dead: Individuality
Individuality-noun, Total characterization peculiar to and distinguishing an individual from another.
In a word full of close minded ways and being yourself never stays. Change yourself...

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Categories: characterization, inspiration, inspirational, psychological, school,
Form: Free verse
Exhilaration
I contemplated self-mutilation
amongst the company of mutations
that were causing my heart starvation.
This is my mind's translation,
a proclamation, a deep introspective cogitation.
Marriage is in abrogation, it's...

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Categories: characterization, angst, art, confusion, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: I do not know?
Creation Through My Imagination
I etch an outline of the landscape’s reflection, 
pigments and colors making nature’s connection.
I portray a mighty bald eagle fly in the distance
above a mount...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: characterization, art, life,
Form: Rhyme
As Moon Beams Danced Across the Night Sky
when on a lark, this primate shut his eyes
   until sight formed slits doubling up as a wink
this earthling stared hard and scrunched...

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Categories: characterization, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Friday May 13th 2022
Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never...

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Categories: characterization, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things