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Premium Member I Knitted You a Scarf
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Categories: coined, french, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Shape



Premium Member Dadgumitrefereeism
Football coach Bobby Bowden was never one to cuss
But refs make mistakes and coaches have a right to fuss

“St. Bowden” as he was lovingly called...

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Categories: coined, funny, sportsgod, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Running Scar
Here lies a grave,
a conglomerate headstone
without a name.
weeds and cobwebs 
wrapped tight around the heartless edge.
Caretaker rides his rusty deer
pretending he's a nascar stud
waking the...

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Categories: coined, children,
Form: Rhyme
Frequency Holders

Frequency Holders 
This phrase was first coined by Eckhart Tolle

Holding space with you in a seemingly fashion 
I allow you to manifest your own reality...

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Categories: coined, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Heady Scent
After three months, the Texas drought finally ended. Blessed rain clouds came. Dark clouds rumbled through our neighborhood. Thunder boomed and lightning crackled. Then fat...

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Categories: coined, rain, storm,
Form: Haibun



Westward Ho'
In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more,...

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Categories: coined, adventure, cowboy-western, history, native
Form: Rhyme
Utopia Lost
True love lost direction
when bloomed my affection
for you, who magically weave word
decidedly smitten
by your comic verse written
my long-dead emotions were stirred

Chats online
yours and mine
the order...

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Categories: coined, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Out of My League
Who coined this term?
Who decided to limit one’s spirit?
Who decided to deprecate those qualities that remain hidden?

Out of my league…
What is the measure?
Who created the...

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Categories: coined, identity, image, self, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Wrapped Little Body - Cut-Up Poem
Other violence this world
There human flames ceased
Sick swan six
With circles some melancholy
Doctor failure some

Different universe copy soul
Wrapped little body respect
About shoulders stopped arms
Flash doubles wife

Early...

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Categories: coined, fantasy, history, tribute, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned!
Mr. Franklin "coined" that old saw, "A penny saved is a penny earned!"
I mused upon that fabled adage and for the olden days I yearned.
Then,...

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Categories: coined, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme
Holy Water's Magical Elixir
Hallelujah, born again

chapels scheming, mankind reeling

 in holy water's baptism of wizardly elixir

  postulating an all consuming reverence,  

rejuvenated myths of deiform fears

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coined, abuse, analogy, baptism, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poppies: Collaboration With Mystic Rose
Hillsides shimmer in summer's golden fire
as marmalade sun dawns on poppied slopes.
I run with Monarch butterflies higher
barefoot in honey with tangerine hopes.

I hear the butter...

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Categories: coined, butterfly, flower, inspirational, lost
Form: Quatrain
Above All I Give Thanks
Grateful am I for the gold coined sun that warms my heart 
and thankful too for all the stars that shine so bright; 
I am...

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Categories: coined, appreciation, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Probably Not Today
Some of my fears are warranted
some might be coming true
but I've coined a lovely catch-all phrase
to keep me from feeling blue...

“Probably not today” I say
as...

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Categories: coined, angst, anxiety, depression, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aging Love
Enthralled I am with such delight,
your hand embraced in mine
a kiss we share by fire light
how devilish and divine.

Embarking on a future set,
the stones all...

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© Jt Nyx  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coined, age, beauty, blessing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs