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The Charlatans
With a load of worries on your shoulders
You dolefully trudge on your path of life
Evading any ditches or impeding boulders
craving for a life free of...

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Categories: charlatans, crazy, desire,
Form: Rhyme



The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: charlatans, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: charlatans, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now It's Up To You and I
We have the left; we have the right.
In the political arena they both fight.

Always claiming to be on our side,
With ferocious rhetoric, opponents they deride.

Vote...

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Categories: charlatans, education, political, voice,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"

“She fits the bill”,
they say it 
insouciantly

visions of being 
carried in the beak 
of a bilious pelican 

where it builds
its rudimentary nest, 
it...

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Categories: charlatans, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a Trilogy
Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus


I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion

Part I

I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with...

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Categories: charlatans, appreciation, art, birth, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Old School
Should it be the year three-thousand seventeen,
  I shall still write as an 'old' wizard,
  forgotten it seems for the charlatans,
  and...

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Categories: charlatans, art,
Form: Light Verse
The Corruption, Part I
There is a corruption we all should abhor,
It starts on the left, and corrupts to the core,
Cancer of the soul, if left to go on,
It...

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Categories: charlatans, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Manor House
By invitation from a trusted friend, 
a medium intervention took place and I went.
The building set in the thick forest by a shimmering lake,
some broken...

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Categories: charlatans, imagination, inspiration, nostalgia, parody,
Form: Ballade
The Privately Religious
there is a sentiment amongst the most public of believers &
even those nonbelievers who still hold some sick
compassion for them…
these
“privately religious,”
who do not parade around...

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Categories: charlatans, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reality, Wow What a Concept
Reality, wow what a concept
lifes provable facts
those incontrovertible truths
things that stick out and not fall in the cracks

Its subject to interpretation you see
describing the elephant...

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Categories: charlatans, imagination, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Poor Henrietta
Dr. George Gey from Johns Hopkins Hospital
Was looking for cells that would be reproducible
Of their own accord for the benefit of medicine
And lo and behold...

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Categories: charlatans, health, science,
Form: Ballad
Chaos Mind
Centuries of lies, a hollow myth
Perpetuated by charlatans with great ceremony
The Greatest Show, the living bread
The crowd sustained and animated by necromancy
The will is fused,...

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Categories: charlatans, corruption, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Lourdes
Bernadette prayed,
wore straw knee pads 
and
built a cathedral incarnate.

Remains of the glorified were
sun baked shingles upon her roof.
Beaded mercy chips 
and
pieces of blessed palms
sewn by...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charlatans, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Highlander
Born a lover, man of valor and strength
Admiration of women, eyes in length

Head of the valiant
Power acquired from assailant
Might relinquished at hand
Born to conquer by...

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Categories: charlatans, character, hero, identity, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things