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Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cunning, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Snowflakes

There's a magic in snowflakes, 
yet their majesty is only momentary -

just like you, 
          ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cunning, analogy, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nemesis-POTD
In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.

With nefarious intent,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cunning, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Teardrop
I
ask
you to
mind our
earth, heed
our existence
upon it, care for
 our lives and all that
will occur if we cannot
consider beyond ourselves, 
if we are guided by uncertainty,
when...

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Categories: cunning, abuse, death, earth, life,
Form: Concrete
Delusion
Opulent the full moon glowed
Flooding light on a rocky road;
Casting down his gauzy veil
Luminescent to probe the pale.
Misty soft the shadows went
Into the secret sacrement;
Where...

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Categories: cunning, moon, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Theft of My Will To Survive
Blindly.. 
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair -
neither the lantern’s flame 
nor a compass rose can help me now
in...

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Categories: cunning, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: cunning, food,
Form: Couplet
Burn
What powers held me in this tortured love
Shame and excitement danced around me
Grasped by the cunning illusions, deceiving
My void self image, coercing my
Vanities until I...

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Categories: cunning, addiction, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bloody Feet Upon the Slab
That tiny pause to skirt the truth, half-reals you'd paraphrase,
The subtle softly spinning gyre of cunning in your gaze,
Vague reflections from your skin - a...

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Categories: cunning, addiction, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legion of Doom
howling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!

in packs behind...

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Categories: cunning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sheep Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cunning, adventure, animal, christmas, december,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: cunning, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Blind Rage
Into blind rage he flew again
  His neck veins bulged, his fists he closed
His wife could not remember when
  She'd seen her man...

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Categories: cunning, anger, husband, success, thanks,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member It's Simply Not Pc
My finger hovers
Shall I turn you on today
You lie there tempting me
I need to know what buttons to press
But when I press those buttons
You respond...

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Categories: cunning, computer, conflict, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its...

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Categories: cunning, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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