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Premium Member Soul Controlled

You were leaning over the rustic, wooden bridge.

Elements of a cold autumn eve approaching.
I just was entranced by the sea of you.
Black full hair, corduroy pants, tweed jacket.

Book of our favored poet, rested on the bridge lustily.
~ ee Cummings, his poetry blessed our union, for...

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Categories: controlled, love, memory, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Controlled Reply To a Skinhead's Brain
A Controlled Reply to a Skinhead's Brain

Just when I thought some real evolution
Of moral thinking
Just might be taking place these days,
I run across this Neo-Nazi piece of crap
Masquerading as a poem,
Shrieking wanly in an open, small-press 'zine.

This fool blames the ills of the world
On "World...

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Categories: controlled, anger, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Controlled Fallacy
 Our mind is capable of passing beyond 
the dividing line we have drawn for it.
 Beyond the pairs of opposites, of which
  the world consists - other, new insights
 begin."  --Herman Hesse, on Thought "

Controlled Fallacy 

I could be an enchanted dragonfly,
the...

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Categories: controlled, change, fantasy, freedom, longing,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



This Flight Is Entirely Computer Controlled
This Flight Is Entirely Computer Controlled

By Elton Camp

It was inevitable that it would become this way
Pilot error causes most crashes, experts all say
Many lives would be saved, it was estimated
If only the human pilot were to be eliminated

Computers have no emotions & don’t get tired
Accordingly,...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: controlled, funny, voice, computer, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Controlled Pandemonium
A hospital “Waiting Room” is an uproarious scene
I understand the pressures of the daily routine
With the number of patients
With all sorts of ailments
It's amazing that hospitals are such well-oiled machines...

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Categories: controlled, perspective,
Form: Limerick
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
(Idea engendered from Lombok earthquake: Indonesia)

Nary a chink of illumination pierces thru
thick cavernous rock solid chamber home
     to this crepuscular anchorite,
who spent untold countless chunks of time
holed up deep underground

     initially to escape deadly blight,
that afflicted vast...

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Categories: controlled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Controlled Breathing
For precision of movement
Taking aim on dead air
Is like magic
Eye, to hand, to target

But this dead air
Is stagnant
No movement 
Due to it's presence

I'm not hovering
Waiting for my next breath
It's shallow
And my capacity is low

I'm afraid to fill my lungs
In such an enclosed space
And I can't...

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Categories: controlled, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
A Love That Can'T Be Controlled Or Contained
A Love That Can’t Be Contained…

What God’s done for me… 
 Is hard to explain it.
When it comes to his love…  
I can’t “contain it!”

The love he brings… 
The joy untold…
Is very precious.
And worth more than gold!

Without him in my life…  
What would...

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Categories: controlled, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Self Controlled Life
Man who does not live in godliness 
is far away from God's blessings. 
If one renews not his life, 
it won't be good for him. 
He who stays away 
from wicked deed 
has steadfast 
and strong 
faith....

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Categories: controlled, poems,
Form: Nonet
Controlled Sanity
The distance away makes fear seem absurd,
As the steady approach of the end can be heard.
The finale is all it can be called.
So many times broken I have balled.
Ounces, quarts, and gallons these young age filled eyes create.
Each that escapes connected to deep seeded emotion...

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Categories: controlled, crazy, dark, death, depression,
Form: Prose
Bad Spirit of Mind Can Be Controlled
bad spirit of mind can be controlled with the self administration of refined consciousness...

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Categories: controlled, philosophy, visionary,
Form: Monoku
Controlled Chaos
What's going on here 
Something feels way off
Barely keeping a grip 
This is controlled chaos 

Everyone is running
In different directions
They can't get far
Alarms sound on detection

With it's sensative sensors
The secondary defense's 
They tripped the alarm
So very relentless

Someone has slipped by
But they won't stay lost
We will...

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© Troy Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: controlled, conflict, confusion, crazy, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Controlled Space
Floating sounds in perfect pitch
Your words, they make me lust.
Secret thoughts I often conjure,
I try to calm my greed.

I want to taste your ecstasy 
And hold it on my tongue.
Your presence is engulfing me,
My body is going numb.

But in a room of plenty,
I imagine we’re...

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Categories: controlled, confusion, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Garnet
Intentionally deceived by those that augmented dubiously.
An Innocence killed by lies that seemed real.
Now, what a heart should feel is controlled by strength of will.
Entombed down deep inside a garnet red does hide.
Tossed away, you lost, I'm afraid....

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Categories: controlled, anger, betrayal, hurt, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Nazriel Rising
Nazriel Rising Small World Ace

She was as pretty as ever on this night
With me smitten to bits with her aura
As we met on our usual pickup location
Nazriel that one who so compliments me

We were on an official business briefing
One of Epic proportions with intricacies
This time...

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Categories: controlled, allegory, allusion, conflict, extended
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things