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Premium Member The Great Cheddar Cheese Robbery
There were three mice, members of the mob
Wanted to retire, so planned one last job
It was deep winter and it started to snow
But they weren't...

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Categories: dred, cat, funny, hilarious, snow,
Form: Narrative



Going Fishing On a Summer Day (Nonet Trilogy)
Going fishing with a cane pole and
            a can of worms and hooks and...

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© Betty Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dred, happiness, life, nature, old,
Form: I do not know?
My Father
My father he's  one of a kind
Very smart and wise.
He takes care of me everyday,
I dred  every second he's  away.

If we fight
I'm...

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Categories: dred, dad, family, how i
Form: Blank verse
I feel unheard
I know I have been on repeat for 15 years
 I lost all my originality when I was sick and stolen from
  My guess...

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Categories: dred, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tho Hearts Bend
the table listens
dred forcing glue and nails to
throb and melt
as the color red is shunned
in public

claw feet
embedded for grinning centuries
stand silent
as birds with no feathers
drift...

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Categories: dred, political,
Form: Free verse



Jungle Love
I keep my left foot in the war zone
I keep my right foot in the jungle,
While I scramble for my cheerios[ 0's }
I do it...

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Categories: dred, environment, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
A Covenant Fulfilled : a Witness To Christ
now when i look back in history i have come to discover
that true African-american history is basically undercover
most cultures know their history and from whence...

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Categories: dred, black african american, christian,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Standing Order 666
INTELLIGENCE REPORT:


           The following is an address given to the 1st Mercenary force
  ...

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Categories: dred, war, drug, , cute,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member We Are Not Afraid
We Are Not Afraid

Why should we be afraid?
If this were the case,
There would be no United States.

The founding fathers were not afraid
To face imprisonment or...

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Categories: dred, america, education, history, political,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Citizens Disunited
Awhile back,
in the Dred Scott decision, 
SCOTUS denied rights of citizenship
to people of color
"as a subordinate
and inferior class of beings,
who had been subjugated
by the dominant...

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Categories: dred, health, integrity, leadership, peace,
Form: Political Verse
200 Year War
The history of the two hundred year war
T'was blackness at it core

A Feudal Economic plan
It good conscience it couldn't stand

Thousands died in fields of waste
Quenching...

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Categories: dred, abuse, america, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
More of Horn Horrendous Haiku
More of Horn Horrendous Haiku

new account create
we found success in our fate
and then celebrate

had been incumbent
of entire government
not sure what they meant

while we had been...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dred, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
This.
IS the pulsing beat of your heart
the ACHE of your SOUL yearning to entangle itself with anothers.
It is all that captivates you.
We all hope, we...

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Categories: dred, love
Form: I do not know?
Our Lives
Our lives are like sand....
Not lasting long....We are a hour glass as it stands, 
We are the enchantress that comes with a haunted song.
A goodbye...

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Categories: dred, dedication, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Chaperon
I took my girl to the ice cream parlor,
to buy her and ice cream cone.
when we got there, her mother was there,
she had to be...

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© Robert Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dred, funny, love, mother, mother,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things