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Premium Member And I Am Grateful
A field of wheat cloaked in dewy silence
the orchestra tunes up with avian arias
bullfrog basses and a choir of cawing crows,
xanthic sunflowers turning their heads...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: citation, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...

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Categories: citation, lost love, lust, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maria Down Under
There’s endless miles of golden sandy beaches
Sparkling aqua waters as far as the eye can see
Gods and Goddesses frolic au naturel down under
Here’s where Heaven...

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Categories: citation, beach, lust, satire, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)

Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they...

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Categories: citation, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jailbreak Courtesy of Soup Creek
The sheriff of Soup Creek has returned from Soup City once more,
after a run in with the judge, some bars and a concrete floor.
We cannot...

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Categories: citation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



A Short Session
My mind
unstable foundation.

They keep talking,
through dreams, comes communication.

A combination,
another citation
never any satisfaction
(Look over here, another distraction)

Formation into another illustration
division by another diversion.

So, what version can...

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© Onyx Perth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: citation, anger, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Small Town Cop
Alternating red and blue, police car siren blaring.
My heart is thumping wildly. I wave and blow him a kiss, 
But he doesn't notice. He is...

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Categories: citation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cigar Box
The cigar box reposed upon the closet shelf for nigh on fifty years.
Oft his family wondered what it held.  Perhaps some treasured souvenirs?
The old...

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Categories: citation, father, nostalgiadad, family, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reverends Yacht
I’d extend an invitation
to all in the congregation
through this speech of inspiration
which is quite a compilation
yet I expect no adulation
and no gest of adoration
for in...

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Categories: citation, corruption, dedication, devotion, paradise,
Form: Monorhyme
My Lemon Stella
She was called, Stella, my little yella lemon! 
A Chevy Citation,you can only imagine my elation!
 She started almost ever time I needed her too.
...

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Categories: citation, funny, time,
Form: Rhyme
Hobey Ford
A witty puppeteer of still creations
Wooden images of live emotions
Rubber, plastics, foam and paper
Strings, thread, metals and caper
A wonder boy of imagery
Son of inspiring father...

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Categories: citation, appreciation, art, humor, imagery,
Form: Other
Premium Member Community Health Assurance
Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting...

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Categories: citation, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Political Verse
Inspection Time 2018
Inspection Time 2018!

Understandable dear reader, 
     how this scribe bull lime
me bloke omitted mention of 
     one...

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Categories: citation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Edsel
It will be remember by folks like you and me,
as one of the most dismal failures in history.
It was created as a new division of...

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Categories: citation, business, historycar,
Form: Rhyme
A Father's Legendary
A FATHER'S LEGENDARY :

Spirit of love is staged in this superman,
Who never gives up until a good deal is done.
He is the source of giftings...

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Categories: citation, celebrity, father, husband, inspirational,
Form: Personification

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