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Premium Member What Comes After Tuesday
"I'm hearing images, I'm seeing songs no poet has ever painted
Voices call out to me, straight to my heart"

Cold, emotionless, and her nature, defiant 
Hard...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derelicts, analogy, character, heart,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Let Someone's Light Shine Everywhere
Let someone's light shine everywhere,
darkness must not prevail when hope becomes
the candle that flickers waiting to die,
but somewhere a rising voice sings 
and makes pretty...

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Categories: derelicts, courage, feelings, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Virus Card
They've tossed their souls away
again
harlots for a vote
they've fingered the race card
the rapist card
the Russian card
the Ukraine card
now they're playing mahjong 
with a virus.
Muzzling our...

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Categories: derelicts, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Spammer Smackdown
IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA 
BASE FORTHWITH.
ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, 
SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS,...

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Categories: derelicts, bullying, computer, internet, rude,
Form: I do not know?
Unwanted Ads
Ego between stints -
narcissistic derelicts
scope the classifieds.
Vanity cracks masked mirrors -
Arrogance need not apply....

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derelicts, angst
Form: Tanka



Robin Hood
Robin Hood


The Boys from the Hood are always hard...Robin laughs in mockery,
  for he is the thief among thieves, swift, hard, so intelligently...
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Categories: derelicts, adventure, character, poverty, urban,
Form: Free verse
Living Rough - Part 1
Makes me chuckle when I hear folks talking about living rough; heck some of them think that not having HD3D is living rough! Well, let...

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Categories: derelicts, abuse, addiction, class, dark,
Form: Prose
The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q ) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part Three of Three
‘Cause, Priests and Prophets Must Pray for The Reign…
and for Pre and Post-Op-Apocalyptic–Novocain ! …

Yet… It Doesn’t Matter, What Distress to You
 On the Planet,...

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Categories: derelicts, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Stone Cold
He betake himself to his room
Does a clear blue sky betokening a bright day?
His motivating memory needs to retrace the day,
The reverberating revival and the...

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Categories: derelicts, home, hope, memory, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Resurrection
Who could have known of their watch
Who could have told of their suspicion
Who could have told
That they were the harbingers
To my resurrection?

Me, I sat there
Plummeted...

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Categories: derelicts, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bag Lady In the Portrait Gallery
BAG-LADY IN THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

In all my failed moments of ambitious grace,
The truth, swarth-headed, lifts its greenest shape
To madly light the curls of whitest lace
Edging...

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Categories: derelicts, blessing, identity, imagination, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Silver Strands
When I first found the silver strands, I felt a jab of fear.
Would ugly age spots follow soon, wrinkles and failing ear?

My dark locks were...

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Categories: derelicts, funny, hair, me, silver,
Form: Couplet
Senile Party
(or, "Your Old Stomping Ground")

There’s a secretary that I know
whose husband recently died
But life somehow continues as before
She has to keep replicating the myth
that everything’s...

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Categories: derelicts, abuse, addiction, anger, beauty,
Form: Epic
My Okra.S Kin
Hi biscuit, you’re mighty and cute
So acute in hearing that I’m spearing fruit
Perhaps you didn’t know, I’ve lived in the South…too.
Entertained a name in the...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: derelicts, confusion
Form: I do not know?
A Non-Voter Asks
Educated derelicts,
Professor of fools,
Scholars of crap,
Leaders that moo;

What is then intellect,
If honor is your weight in gold?
Such mineral torch can test,
Molten like poo....

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Categories: derelicts, anger, education, hate, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things