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Premium Member A COLD WINTERs STEAMY
The staticky-stars climax under intense blanket of Winter glow.
Your spouse can’t see your spirited green eyes that burn slow.

The friction of campfire sticks, the satiny...

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Categories: countering, metaphor, sensual, winter,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member I Am Me, Set Me Free
I am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From...

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Categories: countering, cancer, creation, environment, health,
Form: Ode
The House of Fallon Dreams
"'He,' whom speaks into existence those things which were not as though, they are...." ~
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Fables; to dream these seemingly impossible things!?

A compiling compound upon the...

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Categories: countering, faith, happiness, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Who Are You
In the Work That Reconnects,
we have a dialogue exercise
in which Person A asks Person B
"Who are you?"
several times over a few minutes,
as it feels right...

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Categories: countering, anger, fear, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Mathematics
MATHEMATICS
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Categories: countering, education, encouraging, inspirational, math,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member The Fighter
For most of his 
Bumming around days
He was lost 
In dead end jobs
Once in the gym
He became a silhouette of youth
Weaving like a cobra
Slipping
Countering
Learning how...

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Categories: countering, life
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Noneastern Family Politics
I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I...

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Categories: countering, culture, health, power, ,
Form: Political Verse
A Piece of Peace
What I am doing is not idealism.
It’s a cause for our homeland. 
It is also for the benefits of oppressed people. 

And oppression should not...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: countering, care, caregiving, change, character,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Battle, the Victory, the Light
The Battle, The Victory, The Light

I remember you, great destroyer of heart
emerging from darkness to hatefully start
Battles taken to wing and skyward bound
pain, death and...

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Categories: countering, beauty, courage, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
How You Made My Stars Hush
How you made my stars hush





How fortunate I have been,
having found a shining ray,
Through darkness unseen,
creep over my lifeless clay,

Waking me up of long sleep,
and...

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Categories: countering, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fight Night
We had gathered 'round the radio, to listen to the fight
 A dispute ensued, punches thrown, a bloody fight

 Cigarette butts strewn across the floor,...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: countering, history,
Form: Rhyme
My Garden
MY GARDEN

It’s only rose rains, no reins.
in my   garden  redolent
of you preened and  green.
brainwashed  by  balance sheets ,
soul-washed ...

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Categories: countering, garden,
Form: Free verse
Doubt
Permanent resident 
You have become…
My heart, your doorstep…my mind is numb
Swimming and sliding about my soul
Leaking and seeping till you’ve covered the whole
However you entered...

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Categories: countering, angst, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Brawl
For the moment I merely watched him
Running back and forth in his home
I am patient you see
I am full of time plenty
I am the sly...

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Categories: countering, animal, cat, fantasy, funny,
Form: Free verse
Awakening To Summer Color
Shades of Awakening

Cool of the moon dampened the heat of the sun.
Corals of sleep invigorate the restful one. 

Falling awake on this crystal clear morn,
Into...

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Categories: countering, summer,
Form: Rhyme

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