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Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals, 
as if,
 winning our, “Race”
is undoable or un-triable

Have all but...

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Categories: dauntingly, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Complete the Puzzle - Life Or Death
Life's pieces fit together, one by one.
Inserting them is challenging and fun,
For each shape adds to making of the whole;
Eventual completion is the goal.

Just like a puzzle, each piece falls in place.
Before our death, we must complete the race.
So many times, confront an empty space;
the...

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Categories: dauntingly, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fear Not, My Friend
As the sun sets on a teeter-tauter week
  Prospects may seem dauntingly bleak
Millions upon millions out of work
  The ubiquitous virus wears a smirk

Consternation, frustration
  both reign supreme
A deeply divided nation
  dares not dream

Fear not, my friend
  For in heaven...

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Categories: dauntingly, america, analogy, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



A Garden Haunting
There is a rose out in my garden
that only blooms at night.
It's beauty is of the angels but
with no wings of flight.

It's scent is so haunting as down the
garden path it leads me dauntingly.
A story I know it wants to tell, for
it trembles each time...

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Categories: dauntingly, angel, garden, magic, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Roofless
ROOFLESS


Incommensurable conditions

without shelter nor food,

winter storm clouds overhead

frigid chill deep within my bones,

a haphazard zipperless parka

down feathers withered ages ago,

trembling in the frost sans fire

hoping in the very least for

the kindness of a stranger

offering me a steaming

   hot cup of coffee,

sole thing affordable...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dauntingly, irony, poetry, poverty, weather,
Form: Free verse
Wastwater's Enchantment
Beneath the cobalt veil nothing blows.
Lying vast but still, a cloth of silken black.
Only an amiable ripple articulates its presence.

Imposing contours loom purposely
Declaring their magnificence
And my insignificance.

Illuminations pin pricked into the veil above.
More than you could count
Even with a lifetime given.

A Prince of unquestionable pedigree.
Enticingly...

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Categories: dauntingly, nature
Form: Free verse



Farrago Go Again With My Gallimaufry
A nascent hodgepodge
     of gobbledygook from me,
or alternatively yours
     nada soo true lee,
this incipient harm
     less bumbling in das scribe
     hubble wordy monster prithee
lee, nonchalantly, and lovingly

  ...

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Categories: dauntingly, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Tragic Affiance
Absurdity walked this path of a whorish lane,
Dauntingly decked in a dark seductive  garb
Egregiously seeks the thrones by craftiness,  
Nebulous transverse for the wayfaring man. 
Illusions of a well worn thigh concealed with facial mascara.   
Killjoy bipolar nagging for control, demanding...

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Categories: dauntingly, black love, character, divorce,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Before She Was Born
Second sight in some infants, short tenure belies
Unbiased newness unpicks societal manufacture
To passers by, lurking spiritual assets recognisable
Pervading expression classifies their clairvoyance

Such was toddling dandelion darling, Aubergine 
Unphased, observant, chillingly serene in nature
Cherubic smirk absorbed traits, antics compiled
Tea coloured irises brewed extracted evidence 

Aloof by...

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Categories: dauntingly, baby, child, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Train of Thought
I came across a dwelling in the dark forest,
outside there was a rickety wooden fence
Ravens perched, evil in their eyes gravest
black, as black as night, I must commence,
the gate swung back and forth creaking,
felt compelled to enter, unknowing the fate
that would become of me, fear...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dauntingly, imagery, scary, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Even Forgiveness Has Its Price
Even forgiveness has its price
Smithereens without the smit
One day to judge your life 
One mistake to replace love with disdain
One time to get it right or be dauntingly haunted through out days n nights
Easier to fight becuz vengeance is sweet when done right
Humility bowing down...

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Categories: dauntingly, confusion, day, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You'Re Hapa and You Know It
Hendecasyllabic Alliterative Pseudo-rhyming Abecedarian


Artfully arranging all attestations
Breathlessly bringing bright beautifications
Carefully constructing clever contraptions
Daringly, dauntingly delving deductions
Eagerly, easily ending extractions
Fancifully forming flirtatious factions
Gustily grasping gigantic gradations
Hazily having harsh hallucinations
Instantly inking imagined infractions
Jarringly journaling jacked judications
Kindly knuckling known keratinizations
Lightheartedly launching lame litigations
Misguidedly making mean machinations
Noticeably needing noninterventions
Obnoxiously...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dauntingly, silly, word play,
Form: Alliteration
My Conscience
My Conscience

Sometimes I’m lead astray, 
Especially when your not here
I scream “Shower me with sugar”!
As your words fade and disappear
MMM Burger King, Dairy Queen
Then dauntingly you reappear
I listen, I know better; 
But your stay is so short lived

Sometimes you’re loud
You yell “IM HERE, IM HERE”!...

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Categories: dauntingly, life, words, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Deceit
Care to whisper? Care to cry?
This heart is incapacitate, hollow and dry
A thousand wishes, flew like feathers
Beyond this brood canvas sky

Be you mine and I shall sing
A lullaby of charm tingling
Beneath the old forgotten tree
Wistful dream of sugar-coated lies
Endowed with soft persuasive banter

How did you...

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Categories: dauntingly, love, heart, heart, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Is Watching Me
jungle is dauntingly scary
I hear a slight noise
shoulder brushing fern?
tiger leopard lynx puma?
my heart beats triple time
do I play dead? No. That’s for a bear...

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Categories: dauntingly, animal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry