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....The Title ^fight....
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Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed

Its been a long fight....

Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw

Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows

Crowd...

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Categories: dislocated, faith, love, passion, time
Form: I do not know?



A Life Cycle
A LIFE CYCLE

Ejected
Dislocated
Passive
Activated
investigative
Never stop
Driven 
T’ward the top
Content
Paternal
Fulfilment
Feel eternal
Perceive mortality
Free
Just a memory


Geoffrey Brewer
September 2018...

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Categories: dislocated, humanity, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Another Man's Clothes
The idea behind this poem came from reading a poem of the same title, written by Richard “Canadian Man-god” Lamoureux. Now, his poem went in...

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Categories: dislocated, games, life, lust,
Form: Prose Poetry
We Danced
I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.

Such insight. Such depth.

Mussolini...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocated, introspectionme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anomie
When social upheaval brews chaos of nihilism,
Forfeiting moral values, embracing skepticism;
Instability ensues, clamoring in emptiness,
Believing world is futile, life is meaningless,
As broken norms shout, voicing...

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Categories: dislocated, community, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Departures
I’m drawn to airport departure halls,
to the optimism of leaving.
The suspension of here.
The promise of there.

I like the in-between feeling of transit,
the lightness that comes...

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Categories: dislocated, flying, freedom, hope, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Cooler
Fifty years of bustin’ ass, I never had a dime,
If I had any balls at all, I’d’ve chose a life of crime;

I never owned a...

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© Luke Irwin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocated, funny, life, me, fire,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Are You There God
The man lay painfully wedged between two large boulders, 
his position an anomaly only the cruelest of fates could bring to a man. 
 In...

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Categories: dislocated, death, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Summer Without Daylight
My city has been abandoned
by royalty for vultures to defecate and Hyenas to spit on.
The large hole left is a huge hindrance to every emotional...

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Categories: dislocated, anxiety, depression, lost, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Soupe Du Soir
The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir

						To J.-K. Huysmans

(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocated, poverty, stress,
Form: Elegy
Brittle Bones Break 2
...Continued from Part 1...

Poor little Evelyn, her poor physical conditions at birth puzzled local doctors,
It was a mystery she was born with a dislocated hip...

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Categories: dislocated, anxiety, caregiving, community, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Five
Part Five

Some couplets apart
         much remains redundant
    even obvious
inapt by way of pointing to...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dislocated, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Dear Dude At the Bar
Don't slide your arm around my shoulder
unless you want yours to be dislocated
Don't try to tell me I'm beautiful
trust me it's overstated and overrated
Don't ask...

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Categories: dislocated, desire, funny, men, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Contemplating Sewerage Pipe
I stand on the cliff’s edge and look down,
The falling stones, I hear their resound.
I close my eyes to feel the winds embrace,
I sense its...

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Categories: dislocated, funny, me, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Hashtali-Achafa a Divine Spot
It was a good spot.
A spot near the bus stop.
A spot where on many days the air was filled with aroma
of fruits and vegetables from...

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Categories: dislocated, character,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs