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In 1925  the birth of the King of the Underwood came forth
and some  21 years later, he would grace us with his wisdom
as well as his politics, quotes, manuscripts, short stories and then deliver to us Ben Hur
and Lincoln. His name was Gore...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chiefly, memory,
Form: Free verse
After You Were Gone
after you were gone
your presence manacled my soul and lingered
long on the streets of my conscience

caught on desolate fields of loneliness
silence and tears remembered
the beauty you created

your absence was felt on the breast
of my memory and the air I breathed
jammed at its doorways 
and death...

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Categories: chiefly, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Didactic
Omen
"Omen" 

The throat holds 
untold secrets
like a chamber
holds bullets

a silent question mark
wrapped around 
the speaking, 
changing gears 

full throttle
far reaching 
like a noose 
over sunbeams

the ropes 
for net cast 
morsel charms
upstroke downstroke 

Ariel beckons
the purpose 
of lions for love
into his shadowy arms

"hush", he says,

"the Long...

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Categories: chiefly, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Finer Points of Going Number Two
We’re lucky to have a math-whiz kid
And one day this is what he did.

He said we all know about going number two
Now I’ve sorted out the decimals too.

First, there’s the basic, number two
Which chiefly, is going to the loo

Yet there should be a, two-point-one
Which is...

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Categories: chiefly, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grapes
Greeks hand-fed their lovers

Globes of this clustered fruit.

Grown chiefly for wine are

Green, purple, dark blue and

Giant red, sweet, plump grapes!

Get anti-oxidants;

Give yourself a handful!


Posted Dec.1, 2016 for Kim Merryman's Pleiades G Contest...

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Categories: chiefly, fruit,
Form: Verse
Free Cee Duran Kuran
DURAN KORAN

Banners blow while a silken flag waves
Both signifying a country gone awry
Men dig ever more six foot deep graves
As I stand aside and wonder why

American flags must surely be costly
What with all that red, white and blue material
While the deaths of countless soldiers seems...

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Categories: chiefly, angst, war, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Going Towards the Unknown
Going Towards the Unknown   

Zabra, a Spanish vessel sailing around Africa to
Yemen by the Red Sea.  A sense of 
xenophilia was felt among the mainland Yemen people on our arrival. They are
worlds apart in lifestyle from ours, they live in mud homes....

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chiefly, voyage,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member In Collaboration With Paul Le Mat and Manuel Padilla Jr
Paul Le Mat, the guy
Who drove the yellow roadster
in American
Grafitti starred in the show,
Aloha Bobby & Rose,

With friend Manuel
Padilla Jr. who played
The little kid in
The Tarzan series of the 
Mid-sixties as Jai, Scarface,

Also, Grafitti,
Wanted to cash their weekly
Studio paychecks,
But they knew of the hotel
'DO NOT...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chiefly, 12th grade,
Form: Tanka
A Note
A note to poets yet to be
No matter what their age is
They've indexed me as World War Two
But what's a scouser lad to do?
With all those bloody sages?



To develop the ability
To speak into eternity
And not be heard' s demeaning
It's not just finding words that rhyme
with...

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Categories: chiefly, work, words, time,
Form: Rhyme
Where Art Sisyphus
Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony, 
   ill suited, widower wizened shoulders, 
would take naked fat chance in Fountain...

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Categories: chiefly, absence, allegory, anxiety, deep,
Form: Free verse
Hi, Dro
each thing living on
Murdth ‘sorbs water chiefly wet
backards of arid-
zona an’ the holmby hills’ 
chlorine romp ponds drawing the

scant as blue blood for
the thirsty altar as a
mercedes to the
mccam bridge carwash on
la cienega for the 

hundreds…each living
thing like coke water classic
from botswaniam 
pools It’s the...

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© H Mantel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chiefly, satire, water, water,
Form: Tanka
Pronounced Side Effect Upon My Dreams
Pronounced side effect upon my dreams...
courtesy Fluoxetine hydrochloride

Fluoxetine Hcl (C17H18F3NO·HCl)
known as Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI),
especially prescribed to treat
depression, panic disorder,

and obsessive-compulsive disorder
the above symptoms
profoundly experienced by yours truly
said prescription medication
seriously impacts sleep (mine).

Debilitating panic attacks
wrought (particularly years gone by)
physiological displeasures chiefly constituting
vertigo, racing heart, nausea,
excessive...

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Categories: chiefly, adventure, confusion, imagination, journey,
Form: Free verse
The Promises of White Elephant
This might not be a pleasant flow of appropriate language
A somewhat complicated and abstruse diction
Maybe, a puerile illusion…
You think so?
Imagine and picture that clearly
Because if in our quest to achieve greatness and becoming self actualized
With an acute sensibility coupled with quickness of intellect
Adhering to forms...

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Categories: chiefly, africa, depression, discrimination, fate,
Form: Free verse
Hungry Diana
Daily, Diana coils herself 
In a dirty corner on top
The ever patronized Mararaba
Pedestrian bridge
 Cold mingling in her ribs 
Like a poisonous snake, she 
Hissed and turned thru and fro.
Hunger, offending strongly, her stomach
The Sound of her crack voice,
Her very cherished choice,
Refraining from exuding properly,
Though...

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Categories: chiefly, abuse, adventure, anger, anxiety,
Form: Ballad
War Poets
The War Poets

The First World War wasn`t a world war but
a war of dominance in Europe chiefly by the Franc, British and Germany.
World War 2 included most country it was a nasty war
millions of people died, but strangely this war is partly forgotten.
It changed the...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chiefly, betrayal, blessing, conflict,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things