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Premium Member Conventional I'M Not
My steady eyes observe a jay
lodge against the fissure of night
To  glide at morn, its rebellious cruise
as plumy wings reach hills and skies, and...

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Categories: conventional, image, self,
Form: Blank verse



Conventional Wisdom
Conventional wisdom means:
Compliments
Smiles
Artificial flowers
Restraint and order
It’s like an English garden
Trimmed and accurate
Where nature is masked
And curves are beaten
It’s like an artificial flavour
Disguising the sweetness
Of the...

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Categories: conventional, art, fantasy, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
You and I and I and You
You, who are so perfect in my eyes, so beautiful- adorable, and I, so flawed, ugly, damaged and crawling with defects; why do you enjoy...

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Categories: conventional, anger, beautiful, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Love Fire
Take a look my Love
do you see how the diamonds of our dreams
are burning so brightly and violently
silhouetting the lips of our wishes against the...

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Categories: conventional, inspirational, love,
Form: Romanticism
Evacuation and Loss
The night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant...

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Categories: conventional, bereavement, child, depression, family,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Brother's of the Wind
Through the whispering pines, down the valley's deep
And wide, do they call unto one another, the brother's
Of the winds.
North chases east to west, as south's...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: conventional, adventure, beauty, environment, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Love
Have written a number of love poems

 never one with so much meaning

As I near the end of my seventy-nineth year

My love is more melancholy...

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Categories: conventional, love,
Form: Narrative
Alicia Keys
A star awoken, of dreams freely spoken 
All equipped – musicianship 
Unbound to conventional forms, to so adorn
A woman’s worth
Au naturel
Transcendence of thought, unveiled soul
Of...

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Categories: conventional, celebrity,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Boo Hoo Politics
(Boo Hoo Politics was Written following the Brexit and Trump
votes as an observation and not a political declaration.
A few years out of date now but...

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Categories: conventional, america, political, usa,
Form: Rhyme
A Thank-You Poem For My History Teacher
Dear Mrs Chan,

Thank you for all the things
You’ve clearly explained and shown
And even more for all that 
You left me to find out on my...

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Categories: conventional, thank youme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Blood Under the Nails of the Martyrs -
Sunset, before dark ... you broke your promise
Forging a Japanese sushi knife ready for attack
Days which is controlled by negative conventional thinking
It does not work...

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Categories: conventional, dark, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Galaxy and the Logos:
The word "Galaxy", is derived from the Greek "galaxias", literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems,...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: conventional, universe,
Form: Narrative
Pigskin Precept From Vincent.
"You must go fourth and one!" They all shout.
 while conventional wisdom they flout
 Yet Lombardi once said:
"Never waver, instead,
 put the three on the...

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Categories: conventional, people, sports
Form: Limerick
There Is No Glory In War
There is no Glory in War


In the far reaches of the Earth
Since the time of Jesus's birth
There have been wars and rumors of wars
And even...

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Categories: conventional, war, war, lost, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Ten Commandments of Self-Sabatoge At Work -Try To Avoid
1O. Shut your trap to avoid any flap
9. Do not be overly fraught by "conventional thought" (dinosaurism)
8. Know how to deal with Soylent Green People...

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Categories: conventional, addiction, career, computer, education,
Form: Free verse

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