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Premium Member The Dilatory Thought
Blessed in abundance that manifests in our 
stressed daily interaction with our fellow man, and the sincerest 
form of our inner wellbeing is the outpour...

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Categories: dilatory, introspection,
Form: Verse



White Rabbit
Spying
dilatory lagomorph
hole in one,
curious Alice tumbles while
following...

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Categories: dilatory, books, writing,
Form: Cinquain
Play Station
Play Station

It’s not entertainment
But a relief from boredom
Purchased with the mesmerized hours of a working life

And save for love and friendship
To highlight the continuum 
There...

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Categories: dilatory, life, people, sociallife,
Form: Free verse
A River's Autobiograghy
I was born at great heights,
For the peak of morning rays and the glacial snowy nights ,
I never listen to my parents nor their way,
And...

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Categories: dilatory, beautiful, nature, river,
Form: Personification
Premium Member She Hasn'T Killed Me Yet
She Hasn't Killed me yet
                    ...

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Categories: dilatory, blessing, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Five Second Vision
Cloaked in black she sat
with covered eyes from a broad rimmed hat.
Encircled in a wispy shade of cerise
that dripped to fade into the fleece.
Lines that...

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© Mindy Clay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilatory, allegory, dream, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Silly Sunrise
Oh, does the night come some quickly, creeping 
into my room unannounced just as I raise my 
head from saying my nightly prayer. As I...

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Categories: dilatory, imaginationold, body, me, old,
Form: Lay
Guilt Gone Prologue
A man I knew once,
A man I knew as friend.

Within his indenture he turned on us,
Fed up, we no longer could contend.

A man who asked...

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Categories: dilatory, absence, abuse, addiction, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Mistletoe Just Whine - Parody of Mistletoe and Wine
The stores are heaving, hear the tills jing-a-ling
Dilatory Charlie hasn’t purchased a thing
He’s on a mission, buying last minute gift
Better get something good or it’ll...

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Categories: dilatory, christmas, humorous,
Form: Lyric
Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spelled Embarrassment
Mine slovenly unkempt appearance spelled embarrassment

spurred by most recent therapy session 
with Renee Cardone
whereby thematic thread
stitched how yours truly sewed
coping modus operandi,
viz avoiding emotionally volatile...

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Categories: dilatory, 12th grade, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Desolation
Sweet memories are bitter;
For some reason it is for it is
No rehab no cure for this overlong slumber,
Nor a mistake for this miss

I thought we...

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Categories: dilatory, art, i love you,
Form: I do not know?
Quick Heal Our Friend Part 1
In the world of viruses criminatory
Quick Heal is the best category
Which I chose as my advisory
And freely continued my story.
Viruses made my PC dilatory;
Looking into...

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Categories: dilatory, friendship,
Form: Monorhyme
When I'M Gone Remember This Tome
Stephen not Steve when I am gone
A gentle man with a backbone
A sense of humour that jealous patrons bemoan
A un-pretentious faith that hath constance shown
An...

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Categories: dilatory, dedication
Form: Rhyme
Post-Modern Juke Box Experiences
There are time capsules in the rural Mid-West,
not retro constructs, but temporal dislocations 
that remain as was, 
for lack of a reason to be other.

Restaurants...

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Categories: dilatory, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Unwashed
Rumbles of boredom
lead me to eat
but then there are the unwashed,
the residue of the crumbling
and smeared. Greasy utensils
sneaking like sharks
amongst the soaking dishes.

We need to...

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Categories: dilatory, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs