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Premium Member Doomed To Feel That Bite and Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss
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Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss

Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays...

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Categories: edits, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Poets Are Dead
On days I read…
   O dread
      The poets are dead!

A taste of bitter
   A tatterdemalion squalor
...

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Categories: edits, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Unpoetic Hustle
Because my brilliant hooks read indirect,
But bait directly one illiterate,
They likely slip stripped fish-net intellect,
Thus, now, I’ll lure completely different:
Just like the redwood trees that...

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Categories: edits, parody,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lost
Roots of memory battered by erosion 
          a tempest that edits thought
Aunt Em fears "stupidity's spread"
...

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Categories: edits, anger, betrayal, conflict, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Name You'Ve Given Me-Video
It thrills my heart to hear endearing name
its sweetness burns my heart, sets it aflame
Your tenderness and love it does proclaim
the world is rosy red,...

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Categories: edits, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Dreamtime: My Exorcism
I invented something quite peculiar
Last night
In my lucid dream

My neo commanded my allo-cortex
To prepare allusions to be downloaded
Upon returning to my physical presence 

Caught in...

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Categories: edits, dream,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Redbone, a Mighty Blow Given Night That You Died
Redbone, A Mighty Blow Given Night That You Died


He a mighty dog, grandpa just called him Redbone
As big as a hog, he weighed in over...

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Categories: edits, boy, death, dog, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Back To That Beauty, In World's Dear Blue Sky
Back To That Beauty, In World's Dear Blue Sky

I exist, despite world's dark, angry scowls
In my dreams as a panther on the prowl
In tune with...

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Categories: edits, appreciation, art, beauty, flying,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In Dark Dreams
In Dark Dreams

In dark dreams, seeing visions of the dead
behind veils of space and withered grapes on the vine,
we that live, love our pleasures so...

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Categories: edits, art, color, creation, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires
A Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires

Hardened was his sad heart when a mere lad-
 Never a kind word, all seemed very...

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Categories: edits, appreciation, best friend, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Back When Lost Love, Sent Its Deepest Sad Moans
Back When Lost Love, Sent Its Deepest Sad Moans

Once when life seemed to be a bitter waste
love had failed, left its first unsavory taste,
sky had...

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Categories: edits, betrayal, conflict, dark, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Step
As I sit back at watch the world become depraved
I think about the one foot I have in this instagrave
The countless angles, of shoot after...

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Categories: edits, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vows of Love That Time and Distance Can Not Deny
Vows Of Love That Time And Distance Can Not Deny

Beyond the ocean and high clifftop ledge 
  Across great expanse of water and skies
Two...

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Categories: edits, art, kiss, love, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Red
"I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it." ~ Anne Carson, 'Autobiography Of Red'


Red are my...

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Categories: edits, color, emotions, feelings, hate,
Form: List
Premium Member The Book According To St Lovejoy 1:3 - Part 1
"The Book According to St Lovejoy 1:3 (Part 1)"

1. 3’s the Number so here we’ll commence
I’ll start moving while the non-believers
sit on their fence
A very...

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Categories: edits, abuse, family, father son,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs