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Premium Member The Endgame
The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow...

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Categories: desiccation, death, depression, emotions, grave,
Form: Free verse



Here Lies She
Just see
How fearlessly
Sunshine is seated
On the  gravestone

And the caring breeze
Whispering to the loneliness
So absolute
Beneath the tombstone

A paleolithic stone
A meaningless silence
Guarding utterly alone
The desiccating non-existence

Here...

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Categories: desiccation, death, grave, green, life,
Form: Free verse
Crawl Into Me
Scattering into broken pieces
Of debris,
My life has become a black painting
Of nothingness,

Within myself I see,
 You concealing me,
I feel droplets of misery
Crawling into me, to...

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Categories: desiccation, angst, confusion, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
Before the Moment Passes
Two spirits of passions
From ever separating worlds 

Watching and hoping with intensity

Drifting on winds of nowhere
Tracings of comfort and familiarity

Fearing the change that arrives with...

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Categories: desiccation, hope, imagination, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Ama: the Song of the Jungle
Ama you are a father 
Father my father
Whose basket of fishes
Sweetened my mother’s dishes
Whose naked feet danced
The jungle drum you drummed.

I remember
Father I still remember
Those...

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© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desiccation, nostalgiafather, father, universe,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets
Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets

Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and...

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Categories: desiccation, animal, education, nature,
Form: Verse
Storm Warning
The gathering storm rattled snakelike over distant hills,
Heads of dust and debris thrown as charcoal relief
To the vast expanse of the sky;
In the drought of...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desiccation, death, history, life, loss,
Form: Blank verse
My Garden
MY GARDEN

It’s only rose rains, no reins.
in my   garden  redolent
of you preened and  green.
brainwashed  by  balance sheets ,
soul-washed ...

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Categories: desiccation, garden,
Form: Free verse
My Mother's Son
I am my mothers son,so she always say

As i gasp my first air in her arms she held me

Like priceless yet valuable item never to...

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Categories: desiccation, celebration, mother,
Form: ABC
Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part One
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.

Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic carcinoma...

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Categories: desiccation, anger, confusion, crush, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Perfect Tomorrow, Recycled
Will one day be against the law
To grow your body five feet tall,
To have a paunch/To eat too much:
And those too different [or who Pray]
Will...

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Categories: desiccation, satire
Form: Verse
Glue Bill Whar Ming Dublin Down
Court hiss sea hove The Irish Times,
     this hum mere ruck can bloke
kin esse spy climb mitt till impact
  ...

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Categories: desiccation, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Trading Desires
Wrapped in explosives he was unready
for a bruise. A dive at a mound of torso
to unearth the archives of areolae.

Apnoea will come for arbitration
in clenched...

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Categories: desiccation, art,
Form: ABC
Cain's Dilemma
Evil broiled him changing his thoughts, and he perceived not
The slow desiccation of his mind, how his brain infected rot
From the poison of pride! More...

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Categories: desiccation, faith
Form: Verse
Premium Member Santa Ana Reclaimed
Wildfires of fall bring us whirlwinds of flame.
Black-scape throughout, life’s survival or death?
Spring blooms of dogwood. Renewal sustained.

Santana stampedes, she’s wicked, untamed,
through canyons of ages....

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© Ken Rone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desiccation, fire, mythology, spring, wind,
Form: Villanelle

Book: Shattered Sighs