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Pungently Poignant
PUNGENTLY POIGNANT (STRONG & EMOTIONAL)

I am from the Mississippi Delta where cotton use to grow.
	I am a codified bonified mind that way sets the flow.
When...

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Categories: codified, parody, philosophy, poetry, political,
Form: Rubaiyat



Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three

Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia...

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Categories: codified, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ecclesia
An old Greek word, ecclesia,
is often translated as church,
but could also be thought of as a civilization
acting civilly,
as a citizenry
acting as responsible citizens.

The noun side...

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Categories: codified, culture, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Vapor Barrier Mastic
Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath...

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Categories: codified, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character,
Form: Didactic
Sliced Her Like a Knife Slice
The Story: 

ragged faded 
lady hoarder, 
dumpster-diving 
diva boarder, 
dancin' to the tune 
of her Dandelion Wine. 

milky-eyed maiden, 
peddles paper posies, 
masticating carnivore, 
toothless,...

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Categories: codified, education, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry



A Belated Cc Das Kapital Wicked Candle Box Event For Karl Marx
Born May 5, 1818, in Trier Germany 
     to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx,
sans the third of nine children 
  ...

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Categories: codified, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lost In Translation
You’re lost in translation like staunch Christians,
When they’re trying to understand Hebrew inscriptions,
Truth be told there is distance,
Between Ancient Jewish Mystic Intelligence,
And Jesus pleasers delusional...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codified, allegory, bible, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Legal Rods
The book of torts is the new manual for life
The law is king and
The government must always be praised

Efficient and effective parliaments
Are measured by legislative...

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Categories: codified, political,
Form: I do not know?
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than Cumulative
Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited

healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive 
in...

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Categories: codified, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Carolingian Minuscule
Circa Holy Roman Empire
between ninth
and thirteenth century
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed
Benedictine monks
Of Corbie Abbey
devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee

vis a...

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Categories: codified, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Brownian Movement Writ Large
Akin to daffodils got to puff the magic dragon GoDaddy seed achieve
visibly absent pride and prejudice where aggrieve
ment unseen, as careening human bits believe
where forebears...

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Categories: codified, adventure, age, allusion, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Petty Imitation
Where there is a petty imitation
There'll be pests, posters of sensation
Grouping of hesitations
Complaints to order, servings of hallucinations
There'll be soap-box amatory slander
About walking coat-hangers slender
It...

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Categories: codified, business, life, politicalcry, smile,
Form: Couplet
Friday May 13th 2022
Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never...

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Categories: codified, atheist, dark, destiny, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bionic Syringes
A virus borne on mosquito wings
 Carries more than a bite that stings
 It can spell certain doom 
 For the baby in the womb

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: codified, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Kind Reconsideration of the Abrahamic Faiths In a Difficult Time
A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power...

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Categories: codified, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things