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Woman In 2017
Fight hard 
as long as you're not too defensive
or worse, stronger than him
so we can't tell that he hit you
so we don't have to pick...

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Categories: edgewise, society, woman, women,
Form: Free verse



Different Gifts
Now you know all of us
were endowed by our Creator
with different various gifts,
some of us can write, some of
us can draw, some of us just...

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Categories: edgewise, humor, people,
Form: Light Verse
Times of India a Source 1
Whenever there are cold cruel cries
Times of India appears in full-size
For help of common to criticize
All unjust, biased  and unfair ties.
All articles or poems...

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Categories: edgewise, encouraging,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member January Sunrise
January Sunrise

Arresting carnations through divulged eyes,
o'er bursting citrus stretching a punchbowl
--drapes prized quilt of January's Sunrise.

Underneath confident amorphous skies,
a year dawns, snowdrops grow in icy...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edgewise, january,
Form: Villanelle
Let George Do It
There's a George in every neighborhood, although in yours, he may go by another 
name. 

George can be found pacing the sidewalks looking for neighbors...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edgewise, character,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Space
Kermit went into space one day aboard that illustrious rocket X.
Miss Piggy wasn’t far behind, so as to be there with her man.
Those W.I.E.R.D. frogs...

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Categories: edgewise, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
A Grain of Salt
A man, 20 years of age, another man, 40 years of age

The young man in his inexperience asks the 40 year old man
"You've lived twice...

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© James Moon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edgewise, appreciation, encouraging, growth, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
A Theatrical Nose Dive
This just in, we are long drawn out drab sentences of our breath,
trying to base a topic off epiphany's languid scry, waiting on osmosis to...

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Categories: edgewise, assonance, imagination, introspection, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Year Wishes
Darling,
I should like to do something more helpful
about this continuing feminization,
marginalization,
disparagement of full integrative value
for cooperatively-owned and managed
ecopolitical corporations,
incorporations
bio- and eco-systems.

Good idea, love.
How do you...

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Categories: edgewise, destiny, gender, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Gugu and Momo
shared a strange reality made from footsteps
the land of spirit being open to improvisation
with existence a fountain of plenty for all
too much meaning too much...

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Categories: edgewise, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bird In the Hand
falling on deaf ears 
       can’t get a word in edgewise 
       ~...

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Categories: edgewise, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
Speak My Peace
Let me please
Speak my peace
All ears
On me
All eyes
Because I never get a word out
Edgewise 
It’s not my place
To get in your face
Causing a big scene
Because...

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Categories: edgewise, life, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Pet - Peeves
Everybody has them - whether they admit it or not.
Sometimes they're the same - as what others have got.
Whether it's a lack of communication -...

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Categories: edgewise, anger, anxiety, appreciation, care,
Form: Rhyme
Ego Trippin
Some people always thinking –

They know what they are talking about –

Always trying to show you – 

Always trying to show out.



They think they have...

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Categories: edgewise, life, people, people,
Form: Free verse
Whom Thou Lovest
face down
again tonight
this time
of the sacred cathode
all white ways
when it glowed
free, electric

flat-line
when to destroy
is to
defy his last request
soulfully
all the best
or not at all

Godspeed
with hearts and...

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Categories: edgewise, death, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things