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Premium Member Self Wealth Deficit
Wealth of two masters…
`Tis an amazing thing
One mysteriously an illusion…
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Categories: deficit, inspirational, power,
Form: Rhyme



Attention Deficit Disorder
A rock for you, mountain for me
Why am I defeated so easily

I put on my pants one leg at a time
That's where there lives an...

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Categories: deficit, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: deficit, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Adhd
The clock ticks on as I glance around the room
Just a kid being a kid you assume?
Wrong! I suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
“Grow up”...

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Categories: deficit, hurt, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Make America Great
When the colonists felt that with the king of Great Britain they could no longer reason,
Their leaders signed the Declaration of Independence, though they knew...

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Categories: deficit, discrimination, history, patriotic, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Then and Now
Then:

naïve, sheltered, shy
what i thought
   i wanted to be -
an archeologist, Barbizon model (no proclivity),
a writer, a psychologist, a mom, a wife

Now:

brazen, talkative,...

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Categories: deficit, identity,
Form: Free verse
Desolation
Of the terrible and the wonderful, the lull then roaring sound,
The footprints of the heathen Gods stamped upon the ground,
The breath of Satan’s lungs and...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deficit, natural disasters, world,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Empty Cups
I need to be held
It's a deep yearning 
For pain to be taken away
"Just tell me it's ok" a silent prayer

I know it's ok
But not...

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Categories: deficit, sad,
Form: Free verse
Trust, Trust, Trust
Trust, Trust, Trust
By Dr. Tina Medina
Whether it is Benghazi or Kansas City,
You will call and she won’t answer
The pattern and practice is established
You will call...

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Categories: deficit, america, betrayal, humanity, military,
Form: Rhyme
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too...

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Categories: deficit, memory,
Form: Prose
Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton
Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay,...

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Categories: deficit,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My God Has a Plan For Me
God Has A Plan For Me
I came into this world August 12 1986 by the Grace of God. I was Two months early and was...

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Categories: deficit, abuse, anxiety, depression, inspiration,
Form: I do not know?
Sky So Blue
So sky so blue,
With friendly overture, tempting 
To follow the perspective of its ordinary,
Forget about the day yet to come.
Sky so blue,
Despite inconsistent of dark...

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Categories: deficit, angel, anniversary, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Light Verse
The Worst of the Lot
As a nation, Malaysia is but a mere 28 million strong..
Diverse as she is, we as citizens sing together her national song...
Entitled Negara Ku or...

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Categories: deficit, abuse, betrayal, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Majestic
His words!
Life and substance, they vomit
both, He knits
into one big unit.

His perfect craft
leaving no deficit
and the work of his hands,
obvious and explicit.

Is it the numerous
biological...

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Categories: deficit, god,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs