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Premium Member Course Correction
Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s...

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Categories: differentiate, leadership,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Human Frailty
...Apologies to Heraclitus and W. H. Auden...

We, defeated by the merest things,
in defeat, endure...for now.

No abiding truth in faith:
origins and destinations
we cannot differentiate,
all random, unguided
by...

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Categories: differentiate, angst, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
Forever Awakening From Deep Sleep
Unshakeable groggy state
plagues mein kampf
impossible mission to awaken
this comatose zombie
drugged horror - by potent

self manufactured narcotic -
oppressive tantalizing
nightmares indistinguishable
when supposedly conscious,
eyes cannot differentiate

dusky "reality" from
twilit...

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Categories: differentiate, absence, bereavement, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
State of Mind
Yo, how long has it been since you quit trying? 
Or perhaps your your self-assurance is cooled and drying.
Maybe it is your arrogance that's fortifying...

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Categories: differentiate, friendship, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Memories and Tears
There are photos of our childhood
                   ...

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Categories: differentiate, bereavement, brother, childhood, cousin,
Form: Epitaph



Final Prayer
"Lord" I did my time on earth
I protected this life of yours
So many times I wanted to end it
But I never broke your laws

You have...

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Categories: differentiate, loneliness, lonely, longing, lost
Form: Light Verse
Scruples
...for my sons Keir and Evan


Truth is a two-edged sword,
you will be cut by nonsense,
not by circumstance, my son,
and blinded to its darker side
you'll drift...

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Categories: differentiate, dedication,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Mystical Temple of Poetry

Once freed of boring prodigious 
questions.
Once freed of all poetic forms.
Once freed of trying to impress
 you with imagery.
Once freed of following all norms.

Then and only...

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Categories: differentiate, confidence, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Perception
Yes it was a good morning until it wasn’t-
how that did so last,
Though now it’s night and lights are bright
Morning- in the past.
Though reflecting back...

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Categories: differentiate, morning, perspective, psychological, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death and Life - Gustav Klimt - 1286
Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance...

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Categories: differentiate, dance, death, life,
Form: Ekphrasis
Cryptogram Decoded
Cares pull my spirits down
Always force me, ‘wear a frown’
I heard, “You’ll in darkness drown;
For weeds in you are also sown.”

Seeds like unknown fear and...

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Categories: differentiate, faith, inspirational, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
A Student's Work
Occupations are not 
all useful, like when Sisyphus rolls
and nobody cares. Even Camus
can’t justify my love
of quantum or calculus, when it’s burn-lonely
rolling out the integrals:...

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© Jimmy Qin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: differentiate, child, education, high school,
Form: Free verse
Spiritedly Distilling Social Graces
Puberty set off affright
seeding decades long
     terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (except

...

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Categories: differentiate, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'trust Again'
Ruined by your lies
Now she will question
All those that come after you 
When will she trust herself again? 

How will she sift through the truth...

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Categories: differentiate, life, love, trust,
Form: Free verse
Memories of School Days
It is always nostalgic to think of past,
Especially our school days granting from first. 

When I look back at those days,
A smile automatically comes to...

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Categories: differentiate, dedication, feelings, happiness, how
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs