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Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: checker, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Still Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise

a few missing pieces
ones we may never find
the beast stares down at us
just waiting to pounce
three bloodied blind eyes
can't see the pink butterflies 

psychedelic lies...

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Categories: checker, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sequence
Malta 
Sweet romance 
Sizzling sunshine
Darling, I want to stay - 
With you

Journey 
Flying home
Suntan fading
Photographs… memories 
Heartbreak


11~07~14
Contest: Cinqku Poem
Sponsor: Dr.Ram Mehta

Syllable checker used – ‘How...

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Categories: checker, holiday, i miss you,
Form: Cinqku
Premium Member Learn To Dance
Got a party coming up
I need to learn some moves
so I listened to the all-time greats
for tips on how to groove.
These music legends from times...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: checker, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Johnny Jump Up
provocatively
johnny jump up danced with wind...
pink tulips blushed red

spring rain wet them all
birds hidden away through fog...
crows' watchmen silent      



johnny...

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Categories: checker, nature,
Form: Haiku



You Want To and Can Write Poetry
Dear budding poet,

Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities,...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: checker, age, devotion, imagination, me,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lemon Cake
I savor the creamy batter.
Divining of lemony cast.
Layer cake that’s sure to flatter.
This sumptuous treat will not last.
The melt of his eyes, when he asked.
I...

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Categories: checker, food, sensual,
Form: Dizain
Golden Oldies
Dimes drop, records begin to drop
Rhythm to stroll,  jivin’ to hip hop
Slow to jitterbug,  boogaloo  to rock
Twistin’ Chubby and rock around the...

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Categories: checker, music, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stand Down, Shakespeare
I just tried out Soup’s grammar checker
It graded my work at just three
I smashed my IPad into pieces
You might say it kind of irked me

So...

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Categories: checker, 1st grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Use Special Characters
Don't Use Special Characters


( “ ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ? : ; ” )

Take that Soup Title Checker!

You could at...

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Categories: checker, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remember When
Remember when we walked across the field
Leaves of autumn crunching beneath our feet
The color of the trees was what appealed
Maybe to be alone, our love...

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Categories: checker, environment, marriage,
Form: Dizain
Stargazer Lily
I close my eyes and see shades of tangerine
with splashes of pink- sweetly serene. 
Stargazer lilies bring ease;
sense them in the breeze
in mid-June-
starlit…
with the moon.
That...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: checker, beauty, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Santa's New Bride
Mrs. Claus
Up and died 
She was tired

Santa looked 
Googly eyes
Twenty-fives

Santa wed
Died in bed
Really dead?  

I did syllable check and looked up lines one and...

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Categories: checker, character,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Seasons of Change
Oak no longer wears verdant cape
Which clings to each branch rotund shape
Upon each branch in shapely pairs
Verdant cape oak no longer wears

A tinge of frost,...

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Categories: checker, seasons,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ashes of Grief
“Grief is just love with no place to go”
                ...

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Categories: checker, bereavement, death,
Form: Etheree

Book: Reflection on the Important Things