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Premium Member Must You Mileage Chalk Up In Free Verse Speed Way
Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way

   For Kim Patrice Nunez*, with hope

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut your teeth, art, creation, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Sonnet



The Boogieman
I creep in at night,
     When all lights are out.
While you peacefully sleep,
     When no-one’s about.
No stars...

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Categories: cut your teeth, fear, halloween,
Form: Free verse
True Noises From Outside
True noises from outside 
deep in the night of winter,
snow geese cadence call too
shake some sense of me.
Summon me to remember who I am, 
Bid...

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Categories: cut your teeth, america, angst, character, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Certainty
Cut your teeth on a sure thing and they’ll all fall out, too soon.

The gambler loses a lifetime, while the diligent will succeed.

The only certainty;...

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Categories: cut your teeth, death, poems, poetry,
Form: Sijo
Sulfur Crown
You’ve got a key in your pocket, black salt in your hair. Smoke in your whispers, and rust in your stare.  Tears run down...

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Categories: cut your teeth, anger, evil, girlfriend, gothic,
Form: Rhyme



My Indulgence
Man's last leg is hue and cry!
When baby he is man is the honey pot;
His forebears love him for what he will be.
When man is...

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Categories: cut your teeth, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Bitter Lemon
BITTER    LEMON.


I want to cut my teeth
On the rind of a bitter lemon
And feel the veins of wintry night
Caught in eddies on...

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Categories: cut your teeth, passion, philosophy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Sad Attempt
Wander and meet in wicked wind
They cut their teeth on broken nails
Walk across golden pond in sin
Trail of tears on glacial lake pales
In comparison to...

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© Tim B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut your teeth, death, depression, loss, heart,
Form: Ballad
Brother I Heard Your War Cry
BROTHER I HEARD YOUR WAR CRY

Yes my old friend I had your challenge
I couldn’t help but laugh it off….
You who just cut your teeth yesterday
You...

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Categories: cut your teeth, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
I Love the Song Mahatma Gandhi Loved
Shobana sings at the Mandapam in Chennai ... which I did not see
After all, my pilgrimage was only once, in 2003
He had cut his teeth...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut your teeth, absence, abuse, addiction, africa,
Form: Bio
Premium Member St Mary's
It was an island of piety
out of place in Port Adelaide’s 
working class sea of pubs.
Off the main road,
St Mary’s was a refuge
for the Catholic...

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Categories: cut your teeth, memory, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And Throughout Vast Purple Range, Visions Cascade Down
And Throughout Vast Purple Range, Visions Cascade Down

No fictive dream deludes for now, so her heart bleeds
And weeping spirit no comfort dares to arrive
She that...

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Categories: cut your teeth, art, creation, deep, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
If Words Were Like F#$%ing
My dreams are cutting into my fun time
Fiddle faddle, diddle diddle
Should have something worthwhile
But eyes just ache
And my heart pounds like a thing that pounds
I...

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© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut your teeth, art, confusion, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Kindness and Caring
Cut your teeth at first

On fruit and salad

Don't try begin with red meat

Take baby steps

Walk before you can run

Don't pretend or feign to know

You have...

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Categories: cut your teeth, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things