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Premium Member Every Husband's Thorny Problem


I suppose every husband faces this problem –
or dilemma – what to give his wife for
her anniversary. And it worsens with 
every passing year when...

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Categories: directory, humor,
Form: Free verse



The French Revolution: a Sonnet
Revolution – popular discontent –
From which revolt of third estate arose
Of burden’d citizens which all resent;
Monarch’s frivolities must be disposed.
Committee of public safety, in charge,
Dooms...

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Categories: directory, history
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Five Senses
MY FIVE SENSES

     Five senses hearing, seeing, smelling, touch and taste
     Received, perceived and analysed by brain...

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Categories: directory, appreciation, self, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Found Phone - a Short Story
I was running some errands and stopped into the little waterfront restaurant for a late lunch.  It was kind of that in-between lunch and...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directory, mystery, me, time, voice,
Form: Narrative
Lady of the Night - I
You were born in a war ravaged state
You lost your man to the caprices of fate
You fell prey to your wayward ways
Victims of betrayal, greed...

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Categories: directory, social, sympathy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Hold the Phone

Incoming ... 
distress missive call
Hangups on the other side
of the continental divide cellular room 
Mushroom sobs of insecurity  
click end of volatile transmission 
Redialitis...

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Categories: directory, fun, parody, slam, word
Form: Light Verse
My Computer Friendly Keys
The WORD is PERFECT. It is from God's OFFICE that man gets the VISION. On your LAN APPS make sure you are hooked up to...

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Categories: directory, computer, jesus, language, metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
Abc of Writing
Articles and stories over a thousand years with peers
Bastion of world and unearthly cheers
Chanting, litting the candles of history
Deepens on hearts of directory
Excerpts of penners'...

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Categories: directory, poetry, writing,
Form: Abecedarian
Books of the Bible Old Testament
Your Genes is (GENESIS) in the image of GOD. We have visited a strange dust.  Most of us (Moses) preachers were sent that we...

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Categories: directory, bible, books, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Your Call Is Important To Us
By Elton Camp

When calling a company of much size,
Automated answering isn’t a surprise.

“Thank you for calling our business so fine,
But we do not intend to...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directory, business,
Form: Rhyme
Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part2
diametrically opposing forces miscarriage 
   and abort, cancel and retry to upend Vanity Fair 
   where trump defiantly makes an en...

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Categories: directory, abuse, america, bullying, change,
Form: I do not know?
Reflections of Summer
Powder blue sky without imperfection
horizon soothed with voiles of heat haze
amiable breeze a caressing distraction 
to alleviate celestial fieriness ray's,
floral tapestry feathery foliage of green
contrasting...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directory, beautiful, nature, summer,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Leave Your Children With a Mass Murderer
Are you ready?
Picture eighty-seven children, practicing for a Christmas show
in a sales barn that does not have heat or a sound system.

A skunk died somewhere...

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Categories: directory, christmas, endurance, faith, funny,
Form: Free verse
Your Call Is Important To Us
Your Call Is Important to Us

By Elton Camp

When calling a company of much size,
Automated answering isn’t a surprise.
“Thank you for calling our business so fine,
Though...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: directory, funnysorry, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Self-Crowned Emperor of the French
In seventeen sixty nine a child was born
in Corsica, Genoa's former vassal state.
Prior to his birth, his land had been war-torn,
Paoli's resistance did his birth...

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Categories: directory, hero, history, military,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things