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Premium Member Fighting the Dragon
Into the valley of death
Fighting the dragon demon
Numb from the heat of his breath
Deaf to the yellin' and screamin'

Lying in vomit and left for dead
An...

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Categories: chronicled, abuse, addiction, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Anything But Bread
Anything but bread

I bumped into a man named Fred
And listened to each word he said
A story I was soon to dread
For all he talked about...

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Categories: chronicled, food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am a Book
I Am A Book
By David J Walker

I am a book of Unread pages
I am a book

	I am a book Written in stages  in
A travel...

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Categories: chronicled, allegory, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mask of Labradorite
Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number. 

I sense a wince remind...

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Categories: chronicled, corruption, imagination, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
Letters To Theo
In the course of years,
Vincent wrote out his heart.
Capturing his thoughts,
Around his life and art.

Sunflowers were his muse,
As he painted through the rain.
He beautified the...

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Categories: chronicled, art, historylife,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Bloodlines
It matters not you have the blood of heroes.
It matters not your family's claim to fame.
It matters not your riches and possessions.
What matters now is...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chronicled, inspiration, introspection, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Speaking In Tongues In Malaysia
Ho, ho, ho! 

There is this well written article, the link which I gladly give down below,
It is a most beautifully written anecdote of a...

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Categories: chronicled, beauty, community, confusion, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Dark and Misty Night
There is a place inside the woods where I wound up one night.
Way up in the mountains where I went to get a bite.
Circumstances led...

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Categories: chronicled, fantasy, fear, imagination, car,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Older Writes
In older writes today I take a peek
I read what brings me joy and what brings pain
A message left: a gift that I still seek
I...

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Categories: chronicled, introspection, poetry,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Cities In Flight
In Cities in Flight
transformations are chronicled over generations.
It can make us cry
out for the genius occurring
now and in our past. How
the unseen, unknown participant
was made...

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Categories: chronicled, city, cry, heart, history,
Form: Verse
Human Campfire Legacy
" Human Campfire Legacy ... "

( Gen. 2: 4 / Gen. 3: 24 / Ex. 13: 21 )
( Ex. 3: 2 / Rev. 22: 5,...

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Categories: chronicled, allegory, family, fire, history,
Form: Light Verse
A Devotion To Planet Earth
We have to rebirth, the soul of this planet 
and pray it be cleansed and gentled evermore,
but as nails keep piercing 
hands reach to smooth...

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Categories: chronicled, devotion, love, natureplanet,
Form: Free verse
How Do You Decide
It is the latest news that even claimed attention there in London...
A video clip somewhere in the city, the central part being redly encircled...

Drawing attention...

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Categories: chronicled, anxiety, community, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Frantz Fanon (From Pages)
Martinique is in our history too
Not just in our blood
Because Josephine seduced him
To make us reap more bitterness
From the ferment of the sugarcane
Martinique was also...

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Categories: chronicled, history, peoplehope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frozen In Time
"A photograph is a moment frozen in time . . ."

It is a family gathering
in the photograph I have found
of me as a baby and...

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Categories: chronicled, mother daughter,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs