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Premium Member Solitude
When the mind stops, blank without thought,
It goes to a place of sanity sought.
For sanity is to chaos’ distain,
That place where silence and calm are...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distain, inspiration, introspection, meaningful, peace,
Form: Sonnet



Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22
The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools...

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Categories: distain, beauty, bible, confusion, courage,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Ukraine V's Russian Warship Moskva
UKRAINIE V'S RUSSIAN WARSHIP MOSKVA

Those laugh a minute Ukraine's, on being asked to surrender
Told the Russian's, "Go fook yourselves" in good old splendor

Survived to live...

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Categories: distain, funny, hilarious, humorous, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
I Will Never Kiss Those Lips
Well there you are
I have slithered into the wrong home tonight it seems
I sniffed out the repugnant ward and I don’t like what I see
You...

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Categories: distain, absence, abuse, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Beauty In Pain
purified in the flame
cleansed in the rain
finding beauty in the pain

accepting the distain
of all that became
there's sincerity in shame

dim's the only pressing view
fog covers through...

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Categories: distain, abuse, care, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse



Cold
Voices bottled up, far away…out of reach
I still hear them, echoing in my brain
I try not to believe the fear—the disdain
So long I have avoided...

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Categories: distain, anger, betrayal, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Flesh
FLESH!

Distain for the comfort of others.	
Blasphemy riddled lips.
Persecuted by the blood of another.
Convicted, wounded and ripped.

An errant thief that haunts this feeble mind.
Surrounding the haunting...

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© Sean Rench  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distain, death
Form: I do not know?
My Hard Drive Don'T Drive Anymore
'Your computer just might be at risk'
'There is not enough room on your disk'
Oh yeah? I retort with distain
There's PLENTY of space in my brain!...

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Categories: distain, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Will You Take Me There
I was lost within my life, I could not find my way
My days had no direction, my path had gone astray
I dreaded my tomorrows, with...

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Categories: distain, faith, me, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Ridge Nights
Above the Blue Ridge hills
flights of stealth owl
glide in from the moon.

Strange how a jungle is never quiet
but these Tennessee woods
sleepwalk along moccasin paths
watched over...

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Categories: distain, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sheriff of Nottingham
The Sheriff, not a pleasant sort 
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants

Who once was...

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Categories: distain, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Pursuing Happiness Since a Child Aged 8
Staring into a sky so perfect blue

The wispy white clouds 
highlighted now stand further out

And I am suddenly stood transfixed

And I can feel the sun...

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Categories: distain, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Remnants
Watching you struggle,
 With the demons you hold,
Ignoring the life’s lessons,
 And all you’ve been told.
Shuffled and dank,
You appear out of sorts,
 Unsteadily perched,
 Rocking;...

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© Stacy Fair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distain, angst, life, loss, son,
Form: I do not know?
Raw
I cried to spy you laugh
to see your ballroom choreograph
shameless pleasure with a smile
my heart breaking all the while

a week ago we split
and no way...

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Categories: distain, angst, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The River of Doubt
Bold is the heart of the adventure, seekers of the undiscovered
Frontiers beyond the realm of mankind’s knowledge.  Hardy, bulling
Figures the unafraid, the uninitiated these...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distain, adventure, courage, dedication, heart,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs