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Premium Member Prisons of Conceit
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind 

is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind

They construct reinforced dams that hold...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decompose, character,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The man upstairs

Keys rattle,
door slowly closes ...
An echo of footsteps walk upstairs..

You can hear his bedroom door close,
a little bump as he sits on his bed,
then there...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decompose, emotions, loneliness, missing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lady Luck
Lady Luck ~ (the Nonet) 



Tears, shadows that swallow other tears
united and out of control
eyes decompose like soft coal
water, in swimming hole
everglade pistol 
celestial toll
river...

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Categories: decompose, depression, sad,
Form: Nonet
Shedding Thin Skin
Held unyielding in your narrow mind
is the ignorance which keeps you blind.
Building dams will only hold you back
from accepting that white is not black.
Like a...

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Categories: decompose, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 1
And the music began,
And with power so strong, I nearly fell back from the force
Snarling, smiling, demons held me upright,
As the Precarious Prince began,

“Dare you...

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Categories: decompose, adventure, crazy, deep, desire,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Century-Twenty Two
A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the...

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Categories: decompose, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member October
Dogwood,jasmine,marram grass
In flower ,as pressure fills the barometer glass;
Evening primrose in scented bloom
Fill Autumn with  pungent perfume.

Sycamore seeds twirl and twist
Onto a fairy-ring fungus tryst;
Stink...

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Categories: decompose, october,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Heady Scent
After three months, the Texas drought finally ended. Blessed rain clouds came. Dark clouds rumbled through our neighborhood. Thunder boomed and lightning crackled. Then fat...

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Categories: decompose, rain, storm,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Buried Sadness
Buried Sadness

smiles  floats away
a gaze drifts to empty places
forest of mist covered canopy
no pathways
childhood meadows lost
embers with no glow


buried, yet infinity lingers
beauty tender, soft...

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Categories: decompose, art, imagination, music, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
To You, Crocodile
The river dragon of crimson streams
Swiftly swimming to bring my end
As I’m standing alone at the silent shore
The beast from this murk suddenly ascends.
Gripping my...

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decompose, abuse, addiction, allegory, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Paper World
Everything that's real passes me by
Cause I live on a sheet of paper
I could leave it anytime I want
Convincing myself there's always later

Writing about lives...

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Categories: decompose, on writing and words,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Blews
head heavy
in hands
squeezing pounding temples

trapped in a trance
seated in this place
of emptiness and despair

the place that has welcomed
all of my fears and fractures

my heart pounds...

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Categories: decompose, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buzzards and Flamingos
When winter months become morose
And everything around is blue and froze
Gets disheartening even for the eskimos
Their morale starts to dwindle and decompose

They tread most lightly...

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Categories: decompose, fantasy, sun, travel, uplifting,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Rotten Relationship
Dan was having a passionate affair
told his wife he’s going to leave her
She said she’d never give him a divorce….
he thwacked her with a meat...

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Categories: decompose, conflict, dark, murder, violence,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Autumn Fire
Tips of golden leaves turn a deeper red
With the chill of Autumn before its fire
A clash of color to each leaf now wed
This harbinger of...

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Categories: decompose, poetry,
Form: Sonnet

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