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Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commences, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme



A Song At Sunrise
A Song at Sunrise



He sang the song at sunrise, to the morning dawn
It rose into the atmosphere and carried on and on

It fell in gentle...

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Categories: commences, faithsong, song,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Casual Observation
It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...

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Categories: commences, angst,
Form: Haibun
A Harvest of Music
A Harvest of Music

The orchestra gathered under the dome
Audience  awaiting the pure joy to come. 
Descending silence alerting the senses. 
Arrive the maestro, and...

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Categories: commences, musicmusic, prayer, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dawson
No pagan crown of fossil lairs
Of him I write no verse nor song
T’is not a soup to stir nor share
When lending strength, to something wrong.

Seconds...

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Categories: commences, confusion, dedication, places,
Form: Ballad



Fate's Occasion
Singular and thus finite
begins the spiral's spinning plight
of eminent foretold collision
love commences in a vision

Unbeknownst before the time
an effigy that burns the mind
now filters clear,...

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Categories: commences, beautiful, beauty, emotions, image,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Concrete Dreams
flight	
			        mission controls
			      checked and bound 
		      ...

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Categories: commences, dream, imagery, imagination, innocence,
Form: Concrete
Algae Bloom
The dance commences, I retreat a step
Shattered from archaic engulfing patterns

You cha cha your storm forward in
Swirls of ancient abandonment and as

I skip back another,...

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Categories: commences, allegory, humanity, imagery, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Cold Hearts Beating
Goddess breasts
And King rage
Stood atop high mountain
Within fog-haze heaven fountain
Proclaimed animosity
Seduction she destruction he
Planned in intricate intimate detail
Spanned thoughts depths good to evil
Delve deeper death
Devolve...

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Categories: commences, allegory, death, love, life,
Form: Free verse
The Valley
Dawn develops with snowflakes
It also commences with sunny glow
The peak stands with green bushes with some small fleece like folks.
Fleece folks with Liliputs owners grazing...

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Categories: commences, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Komodo Dragon
K illing its prey with bacteria stained saliva
O n queue, it is patient as the blood poisoning commences
M aking deadly moves out of the savannah...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: commences, animals
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Game of Hockey
The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed...

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Categories: commences, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hermit Kingdom
They sit on their own
in their Hermit Kingdom
other side of the wall
singing their song 
entitled 
nothing to envy

peeling the skin 
away in generations 
it's worse...

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Categories: commences, freedom, muse,
Form: Narrative
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: commences, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
A Summer In Reflection
The morning sun hovers coyly
behind broad shoulders of the John Crow Mountain
before unwrapping petals of fever plant and Venice.
Mama’s countenance was far contrast to one...

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Categories: commences, childhoodold, children, morning, old,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things