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Premium Member Pondering My Journey
I _ 
have been thinking and pondering my life so far
     as I meander back to sad places and faces 
the...

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Categories: dreg, journey, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Within Me
      . . . I am lost in a sea of memories
that scar the roadmap to my soul
and my words-...

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Categories: dreg, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, My Withered Dreams
 
      . . . I am lost in a sea of memories
that scar the roadmap of my bleeding soul;
my...

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Categories: dreg, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Regret
A New poetry form invented by Aggie in Malaysia. She named it Chinky - My first try, and not a very good one. My gerund...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dreg, confidence, courage, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through,...

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Categories: dreg, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bitter Coffee
Through tinted glass, I see cars have lined up outside, like a java-thirsty snake who waits to strike at the employee working the drive-through window.
I...

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Categories: dreg, friendship, people, sad,
Form: Haibun
Wind Up Humanism
Realm of humankind wheedled in reset,
Homeland beray, lull to beset, 

Scrawling the parchment to a keyset,
Xenophobia in callousness, 
Dearth to darn the clout concord. 

Orness...

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Categories: dreg, community, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Voiceless
Mother taught me to not kill,
Her holy book forbids it.
Written somewhere in its many pages is
"Killing is the wickedest biblical sin."
My mind holds me prisoner,
A...

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Categories: dreg, africa, corruption, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Hid 'Em Up
Dancing to Sisqo 
like a dad at a disco
that ain’t the diss though
you’re a straight up pissed ho
handbag on the dance floor 
where your sandbag...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dreg, appreciation, freedom, rap, rude,
Form: Rhyme
The Drunk
I see him on days
As I walk from school
Weighted with books + facts + insecurities
Feet moving to the rhythms in my head
A thousand songs
Illustrating the...

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Categories: dreg, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Do Have Hillary Doll
Do Have Hillary Doll

Bernie has been in Congress many years
And can't find him because he disappears
If memory serves me right when I look back
How can...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dreg, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Christ Church
Destiny about to catch up,
Time clemently limited,
Kisses of power flowing outside a cup,
Feelings of Darling perforated, 
Give me a catapult to smash the ancient serpent,
Noah's...

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Categories: dreg, allah,
Form: Rhyme
Deflated Ego
Sitting here thinking, 
while I’m holding my own,
I’m wondering how so many big heads
 fit into a pontifical cone?

Riding in a chair of gold leaf,...

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Categories: dreg, life, parody, social
Form: Rhyme
My Aspiration
Maybe i should become a toad,
And lurk in the british embassy.
Among the chairs and heart-broken files,
Sitting on millions of deflowered flies.
Then when they're boarding the...

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Categories: dreg, allegory,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Emerald Lake
EMERALD LAKE

I believe you want to wade in clear blue water,
But the Yukon presents a treetop view,
Of a lovely lake, emerald son, not daughter.
I was...

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Categories: dreg, nature, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs