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Premium Member A Lighthearted Peek At The Apocalyptic World Of Poetry Contests
This contest style’s description is one I’ve never heard
I’m unfamiliar with that particular word 
An internet search comes up empty 
However, others seem to have...

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Categories: competitions, fun, humor, satire, word
Form: Rhyme



Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 2
Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs 
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their...

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Categories: competitions, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dale
Dale, as your birthday fast approaches, just think!
You would be turning sixty-four!
Maybe by now, you’d even have retired 
from a law practice I’m sure would...

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Categories: competitions, brother,
Form: Free verse
La La Di Dah Dah La
Earth dwelling mongeese are neither toys nor coins and pedalling backwards then forward is not considered the primary way of jet propulsion off a very...

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Categories: competitions, allusion, baptism,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Queens and Kings All Over This Land
Queens are all over, and there are festivals, parades, banners and stuff.
I wanted to be Corn Queen once, but they chose a girl from Council...

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Categories: competitions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse



The Autumn Creek Hotel
It is a small investment; this property out in the scrub.
A building that is shabby in it’s ‘hey day’ was a pub.
Blackberries scramble over it,...

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Categories: competitions, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Annual Fair Preparation
Every year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some...

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Categories: competitions, community, games,
Form: Rhyme
Of Morality
Dice, the goddess of morals, asked her mother, Themis
Why there's divorce, gambling, abortion, and alcoholism?
Why should dehumanization, like a Bloodstone, beamish?
Why should knives of nemesis...

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Categories: competitions, evil, integrity, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Whole Earth Patriotism
What is patriotism?

Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health care integrity?

What is nationalism?

Usually positive values about monocultural 
monotheistic
monopolistic identity,
but I guess...

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Categories: competitions, beauty, culture, growth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Mulligan
Well, here I am sitting on the golf course
Watching the fireworks display overhead
Yes, I know I'm not as big as a horse
But at least one...

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Categories: competitions, animal, golf,
Form: Quatrain
Battle Rap
I see you got expensive shoes,
But you couldn't pay someone to screw you.
You walk around all day thinking you're hot as fondu.
Yeah, you got cheese,
And...

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Categories: competitions, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burning Logs
Each flame 
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.

Each flame 
unique...

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Categories: competitions, caregiving, community, creation, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Underdogs Have Their Days
Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting...

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Categories: competitions, appreciation, community, encouraging, football,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweetspots
Could you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept 
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust 
of and for...

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Categories: competitions, beauty, earth, growth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Invitation
The Monstarrette mysterious mountainous  MAVERICK MANSION. 
STILL MAINTAINS its master piece LEGACY. WITH  its 12 bedrooms,
8 bathrooms.  A BEAUTY NO DOUBT. ...

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Categories: competitions, baseball, basketball, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things