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Premium Member Undertow
It's like a powerful undertow that pulls you down below, 
till darkness swirls around you and there's no place you can go. 
It fills your...

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Categories: compounds, depression, health, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme



Looking Down
If wealth is now your blessing,
what then was the prayer?
Avarice, its goal possessing,
yet in penury, despair.

I see them often in the store
eyes ahead, regard for...

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Categories: compounds, poverty,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love Is the Force
Tender touch gently soothes an ailing soul 
Wordless discourse greets eyes of love
A mother's hug comforts her child's ego
Love is the force that makes the...

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Categories: compounds, care, friendship, love,
Form: 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: compounds, rain, storm,
Form: Haibun
Reverencing Nature
Creation energy in each atom glows.
Electron-bound sacred unity –
Thus, reverence for nature inside me grows
When I walk through rustling sheaves.
And I know in my heart...

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Categories: compounds, faith, naturenature, heart, heart,
Form: Ballad



No Set Future
As I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.

My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an outstanding,...

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Categories: compounds, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
......Helter Skelter.......
"Tertium guid...."
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Spending a few moments pondering

The syllogism of existentialism, and

All of the pages of histories

Finds, movements, theories and themes....

The intricities; complexities

Compounds; variables and factors

Real or...

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Categories: compounds, historyhalloween,
Form: I do not know?
Faceless Fear
Faceless Fear


Inside of me there haunts to be, a pain that never seems to go away,
Within a darkened room, of a dismal day...
Hell compounds and...

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Categories: compounds, death, fear, love,
Form: Rhyme
An Accidental Overdose
She fought daily with the agony.
never knew when it would strike.
It affected all corners of her world
waking, sleeping, laughing, and crying.
Early one morn, she lost...

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Categories: compounds, caregiving, confusion, death, loss,
Form: Free verse
Decade of Bullets
Decade of Bullets

Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou
See a procession of young mothers chattering their way
From water fountains in grenade torn sandals
And blood laced bras 

Somalia, Somalia, Somalia
See...

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Categories: compounds, africa, conflict, cry, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Happy Birthday
Covid spread throughout the kingdom – 
the people inside the elite compounds,
if they heard the many sounds of the
ill falling dead, did not seem troubled,
not...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compounds, freedom, perspective, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enjoy It
We were calculating theoretical yields on chemcollective
and somehow we ended up dancing to ”go left.”

We were finding oxidation numbers on labster
but somehow we started laughing.

We...

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Categories: compounds, fun, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Slipper
Twilight downs the sun as dreams appear on the screen of sleep

Slips into the subconscious realm and trips a few fuses in slumber

Adapts and clears...

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Categories: compounds, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
On a Million Dead Bodies
War taught of the need for nutrition and good health, 
and so Penicillin was first used on mass scale, 
tin food was too, like never...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compounds, history, perspective, truth, war,
Form: Rhyme
God Loves Me
"God's love fills me with gratitude" - Quote by author

Gracious Lord with love overflowing while devising,
created this universe mesmerizing
Every single element thoughtfully crafted,
an epitome of...

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Categories: compounds, god,
Form: Rhyme

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