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Premium Member Deadlocked
Deadlocked
What tipped the scales
what has caused the rift,
the straw that added the extra
weight...Or was it a feather?

Have the lights gone out, has the grid
finally, broke?
Leaving...

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Categories: deadlocked, betrayal, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Classicism



13th Hour
My own head screaming at me
every thought another fight
strangling my heart
he hid behind my tears
every possible negative thought
battling myself to do what is right
always felt...

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Categories: deadlocked, caregiving, confusion, epicself, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sidney Poitier---To Sir, With Love
Against the odds, among the brave, his class was not defined by race
Talent can never be confined by color, race, nor faith, or time
He climbed...

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Categories: deadlocked, celebrity, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Sinking Rationality
Quicken my perception with your poetic prophecies 
Preach with persuasion, until your theories are believed          ...

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Categories: deadlocked, imagination, me, me,
Form: Couplet
My Iron Rod
it had been predicted
the crime of your century
i would figure out
and do it justice

It was written
after many years of famine
and tragedy
the justice i did the...

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Categories: deadlocked, political, religion, school, visionary,
Form: Free verse



Woe Is Me
Words have no more Meaning
I find myself Deadlocked
In an Ethiopian Night
I Could go recklessly on 
But with what Hope?

Will I Glide on?
The Only thing I...

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Categories: deadlocked, adventure, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Spy Versus Spy Versus Spy
If looks and money are what your about
your not getting very far with me
If you believe we use sattelites in space to watch television
you have...

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Categories: deadlocked, adventure, angst, confusion, education,
Form: Free verse
Building My Stolen Empire Out of Loose Ends: Crime of the Century
was this tortured victoms ground zero a lie?
were his 17 sites of an obsessive world peace nature proof in the pudding?
were the forgetfulintentions of poetrypoem...

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Categories: deadlocked, confusion, history, life, political,
Form: Free verse
I Am the God of War the Bringer of Peace
Mastermined racism through religion
in order for world peace
humbled myself , the former god in heaven
to become your homeless king of earth
about to rule my lost...

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Categories: deadlocked, historygod, war, world, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Dunnit
I'm squirming in a chair of oak,
with narrow arms.  My buttocks numb,
and all the while the clock ticks on.

While folks are grim, with furrowed...

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Categories: deadlocked, confusion, innocence, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Remembrance of Harriet Harris:
VERSE ONE:  
 
Christened as averred one Harriet Kuritsky on November 13th nineteen thirty five
     the youngest of four with...

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Categories: deadlocked, angst, anniversary, death, dedication,
Form: Ballad
Underneath (The Possession of Nostradamus)
like a suggestion to obsess
of a gap commercial experience
leaving me walking in circles
unable to stop telling lies
the fight or flight keeps me here
underneath this hypnosis
you...

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Categories: deadlocked, confusion, history, lifeme, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Am I
I'm squirming in my chair of oak
with narrow arms, and folks lined up
in two long rows of growing thirst
and hunger for a breath of air

Like...

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Categories: deadlocked, angst, introspection, judgement, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moon That Once Was
Rising with a sunny day she looks to blue sky
Reminiscing about sweet memories gone by
Knowing too well where the dark clouds hide
Clouds that thunder to...

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Categories: deadlocked, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Verse
King of the World
Say hello
to your
controversial
global
TERRORIST

I am not
unreasonable,
but
I can
BE

There is one side,
it is my side
so just save time

If you are not working for me
you are all against me
and...

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Categories: deadlocked, angst, depression, history, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs