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Jettisoning Cargo
The sea rose up to kiss the sky 

crashed down upon the ship   

then tossed it high 

like some baby with a new toy. 

  

The slaves emerged blinking 

in the harsh  light  on deck 

Their chains for ever linking...

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Categories: dramatised, holidaylost, lost,
Form:
Premium Member Faith, Pain ,and Relief
An elderly man I knew ,
( who had no issue) 
about fifty years ago
was well known  among the local
and neighbouring residents
for his  knowledge of the native pantheon,
evil spirits, and ghosts .

Often he conducted rituals
to ward off the ghosts and evil spirits
from the homes...

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Categories: dramatised, extended metaphor, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Innkeeper
(A dramatised imagination from the Bethlehem Inn - https://vimeo.com/657939760 )


OY! ! 

Who is this, 
will not let me lie and have my rest? 
Must I rouse and don again my robe, 
arrange myself, 
and comb my beard 
to show myself at best. 

Just to tell...

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Categories: dramatised, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member You Resemble Me
Face framed ornate, or curl corner blu tacked up
Childhood fanciful daring must softly be contained
Dispicable hovers inside cherub cheeked adorable 
Challenge for enamoured to create correct shape 
Administer discipline with compassion entangled

Potential beckons infant innately curious
Toddler discovery meshed with messiness
Woven with wonderment routine can't limit
Succumbed...

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Categories: dramatised, age, baby, child, class,
Form: Quintain (English)
BAT SONG
BAT SONG 

(This Song was written in 2009 for a dramatised Rap Music & Dance Group in Rural South Africa. They wanted an amusing song with a message incorporating an unusual rural image. It unfortunately was not performed on stage, but the young teenage group...

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Categories: dramatised, 12th grade, africa, color,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Picasso a View
a monochrome 
   hue
in blue
       to a breakthru
on a road
  to simplicity

primitive
   power   in paint
expressions
of
   emotions

surreal

corrupted confusions
a nightmare jumbled
minimalised 
          ...

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Categories: dramatised, art, people,
Form: Other



Premium Member Band of brothers diamante
Author
                 Ste.phen ambrose
                Band of brothers
        ...

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Categories: dramatised, character, film, inspirational, memorial
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Not Prose But Poetry
monochrome blue
  a breakthru
on a road
   to simplicity

power
in paint
   so primitif
experiments
 in emotion
a progression
     into the 
              sur real

dramatised distraction
corrupted
in confusion
jumbled
minimalised
  stilled...

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Categories: dramatised, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Points of View Picasso
Monochrome blue 
         a breakthru 
on a road 
          to simplicity 
&power in paint 
     so primitif

experiments in emotion 
    a...

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Categories: dramatised, art, people,
Form: Other

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry