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Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 I saw, the rot of sad, deep selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a tall mountain...

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Categories: drunks, conflict, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Leaves of the Dead
Leaves of the Dead

Les feuilles mortes 



They fall like dead soldiers
Dreams knifed in the dead of night
It is as yesterday
Once more
Where love was kissing my...

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Categories: drunks, french, imagery, music, paris,
Form: Lyric
Dangerous Green
The town that I was born in was a small and ‘one horse’ place,
where no one held a secret and we knew each other’s face.
Nothing...

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Categories: drunks, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Watch Maker
The Watch Maker…


Let me be, leave me alone, I'm Him, I'm alone.
I'm in pain; let me be, let me be, on my own.
 All the...

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Categories: drunks, creation, fantasy, love,
Form: Masnavi
A Better World
A vision of humanity, a world without brutality, a beautiful fantasy, not a reality.
A vision of a world where the truth isn’t ignored and everyone...

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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drunks, care, conflict, death, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Man Tells Tales

 I saw, the rot of selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a mountain high
 stolen by those...

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Categories: drunks, blessing, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Peaceful Valley Sunday----Potd---
This is where I indeed, do live!
With many churches, to support and which to give.  

Murder is a most rare occurrence here.
No riots, no...

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Categories: drunks, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Just a Barmaid
"come on, get your coat off, its bloody ten too"
not even eleven and there forming a que
"just a barmaid" thats what they say
service with a...

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Categories: drunks, drink, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"



A writer writes of people 
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all

like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors...

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Categories: drunks, depression, family, friendship, home,
Form: Free verse
Brain Station
It resembles the London Underground inside my messed up mind 
With a network of confusion 
And Tracks that twist and Wind 

Tunnels full of darkness...

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Categories: drunks, anxiety, confusion, depression, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Quick Fix
We’ve proven there's no quick fix
when we start to yell and cuss.
Oil and water do not mix,
and the same thing goes for us.

When together, night...

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Categories: drunks, emotions, feelings, hurt, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Authenticity
In times of retrospection we discover
The miles our vagrant compass trekked 
Silent horrors from which we recovered
What be righteous or unworthy we assess

For to all...

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Categories: drunks, abuse, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Doctor Hill's Bill True Story
In a little West Texas cow town years ago
There was an  old doctor by the name of Hill
Little man, mild mannered, cheerful until made...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drunks, cowboy-westernold, mother, old,
Form: I do not know?
Annulment Coming Up
I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t...

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Categories: drunks, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Cool, Roan Rider, Part I
He trotted up to Hamlin’s Bar,
stopping in for a quick drink.
He sat a tall, blue roan Mustang,
with a hide like darkest ink.

He paced into the...

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Categories: drunks, adventure, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs