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Premium Member Microshot
When looking for a quack with spiked rates
Some try the Windowed Office of Bill Gates
Coz right on the spot
He’ll give you a shot
But be prepared...

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Categories: dictates, angst, corruption,
Form: Limerick



God Is Love
Love is an authority.
It dictates choice and consequence
and joins together all the wayward lamenters
who grieve at their loss of purity.

Love is an actuality.
It breathes new...

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Categories: dictates, lost love, lovelove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member O' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask of Thee
O' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask Of Thee

O' 
shadow,
pray tell more
before midnight clock scores 
and in its echoes lays to waste
souls yearning for life's...

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Categories: dictates, appreciation, art, creation, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Pay No Attention To the Man Behind the Curtain
Blissfully ignorant and supine,
Lost in the economy line,
voters don’t have a clue
that liberty is through.
Apathy dictates all else is fine.
People keep telling me how foolish...

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Categories: dictates, political, people, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flat Packed Kitchens
I decided to turn around this morning,
stop spooning away the day 
Forget about mother nature, 
look much deeper into the grey
I could see late night...

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Categories: dictates, confusion, god, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Twelve Angels of Beirut
The Twelve Angels of Beirut

They huddle together in the heavens
Muttering amongst themselves
Confused as any human down below

We bestow upon them the ancient teachings
Not once, not...

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Categories: dictates, allah, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Robot Benny
MY ROBOT BENNY

I have a robot at home, his name is Benny,
Who is also, extremely office friendly.
He wakes me up every morning,
As a new day...

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Categories: dictates, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Watches
A vision through the haze of time and rhyme
a mirrored beauty, Helen sits and waits.
I see her through the window for it's late,
at dawn, I'll...

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Categories: dictates, fear,
Form: Italian Sonnet
My Aminus Brain
I am of soft, delicate skinned casing,
Housing an iron, logical facing.

I grant my femininity free reign
To follow dictates of my manlike brain.

My seductive charms can...

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Categories: dictates, character, judgement, smart, strength,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Brainstorm
a diabolical grace ...

dark, deep, warm-black arms of
an endless night wrap me ...
head thrown back in abdication -
arms spread wide in surrender,
falling backward, back, back,...

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Categories: dictates, abuse, addiction, analogy, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Barbed Wire
Barbed wire seems a 'thorny' subject on which to opine,
But there arose a need for such for people and beasts to confine!
Cowpokes cussed as they...

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Categories: dictates, history
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Awe of the Wind
You whine and whistle, ghostlike, when you round
		the corner of my cottage in the cove.
		You sweetly soothe or taunt and terrify.
		No one on Earth dictates...

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Categories: dictates, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sins of the Mind
thorns are helpless - premature petals wither in scents of petrichor 
greed dictates logic - nature suffers in silence - climate confusion

Silent One
28 December 2019

This...

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Categories: dictates, nature, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Valentine Villanelle
Blow me a kiss from across the great way
Desire for that kiss to reach soft lips that wait
Let your masculine hands lovingly stay

Cling to your...

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Categories: dictates, longing,
Form: Villanelle
My Gallery
My Gallery

In upper part of my body
A cognitive bell rings
From a dial-up connection
of live wires

The modem is working just
To repeatedly provide
the facsimile of
Barren and bald...

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Categories: dictates, 12th grade, body, conflict,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs