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Social Encyclopedia
Social Encyclopedia



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Categories: encyclopedia, internet, self, social,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Strange Galaxy
When I gaze into this realm, I see more than the dazzling array
     of golden starbursts floating in a cosmic sea...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encyclopedia, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chopped Iii - Humor
i narrate me own story in a fake english accent. the bloody typewriter is 
broken, it can't capitalize. i'm out of coins for the heater. i can...

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Categories: encyclopedia, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Maniac President's Song
(A parody of the Modern Major-General's Song from "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan.)

I am the very model of a very stable genius.
Compared...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encyclopedia, funny, humor, humorous, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Youth, Time, Night Sky and Heaven's Blessed Voice, Second Poets Tribute Series, Vladimir Nabokov
Youth, Time, Night Sky And Heaven's Blessed Voice

As I lay me down in lush verdant grass
Gazing into night sky as Heavens pass
Twinkling stars, to an...

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Categories: encyclopedia, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



I Am Caroline Foster
9/20/16

I am Caroline Foster.
I am fifteen-years-old.
I am shortish.
I am rather thin.
I am intelligent I guess.
I am oblivious.
I am weird.
I am childish.
I am different and not...

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Categories: encyclopedia, angst, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
George Theodore
This man was affectionately nicknamed “The Stork”.
He played only two seasons with the Mets from New York.
George was a native of Salt Lake City.
His major...

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Categories: encyclopedia, baseball, dedication, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us" 

The blood dripped 
off each piranha's 
sharpened fang

acquiescing 
compliant
with tragic complacency

keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours 

stick like Teflon
to the...

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Categories: encyclopedia, dark, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse
False Prophets
FALSE PROPHETS

They have the word of God as their encyclopedia
They refer and come out to deceive the myopia
They are quick to inform like Wikipedia
Their actions...

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Categories: encyclopedia, allah, allegory, anger, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Origin of Christianity
Origin of Christianity

(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)

It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary...

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Categories: encyclopedia, bible, christian, faith, history,
Form: Didactic
Aces and Eights
At a poker table in a Deadwood saloon,
Wild Bill Hickok popped his last balloon.
He suffered the most ignominious of fates
while holding black pairs of aces...

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Categories: encyclopedia, history,
Form: Rhyme
Avalanche and Aurora
God, are you sending Earth an electron avalanche?
Was supplying sun’s particles part of Creation’s goal?
Is insulation why we have such a cold snowy North Pole?
Is...

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Categories: encyclopedia, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
No Part of the World
NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)


Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?

Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD,...

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Categories: encyclopedia, bible, christian, god, gospel,
Form: Didactic
The Know It All
I started to read at the age of three
and know all the winners on Jeopardy
have posters of Einstein all over my walls
the theory of relativity...

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Categories: encyclopedia, humor, smart,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Thoughts At the Gallery
His shop is filled with the finest treasures
The artist walks ‘midst his imposing creations,
By the marvelous statuary, and original pictures.

Artifacts collected from myriads of nations
Featuring...

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Categories: encyclopedia, appreciation, art, culture,
Form: Terzanelle

Book: Reflection on the Important Things