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Premium Member The Parting
I took you for your final walk
On that crisp and sunny day
The blanket round your 
shoulders
To keep the chill at bay

We didn't talk the way...

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Categories: eschewed, bereavement
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Brake
Willows wheeze while traders weep
A head for softer shoulders grasped
Spread another bid too deep
On margin calling crumpled dreams collapsed

Umbrellas saved the follicles
While frozen feet alarmed...

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Categories: eschewed, loss, money, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Unbridled Change
These days of changing values can be hard:
What once was just, today's considered wrong.
Some things encouraged now at one time jarred,
Abandoned now are values once...

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Categories: eschewed, change, conflict, confusion, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member True, Moses Wrote of Righteousness
True, Moses wrote of righteousness, one based upon the law.
But Paul proffered an alternate, eschewed the tragic flaw.
Salvation based on works alone: a concept misapplied.
For...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eschewed, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Books Unread
Why is the middle where I put a book down?
My anticipation dies at that half-read interlude.
I lack the discipline that keeps me inbound.
A famous author's...

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Categories: eschewed, books,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Your Best Poet Friends
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Categories: eschewed, appreciation, friendship, poetry, poets,
Form: Quatrain
Window
The father has left the family, 
To chart new territories somewhere 
So the mother looks to God for strength 
To bring up her little girl...

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Categories: eschewed, family,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Breathtaking
Bright-eyed youths have risen early
			Ready for their special day
			Eager for the life awaiting
			Afterwards, without delay.
			Time for them is of the essence;
			Hopes and dreams must be...

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Categories: eschewed, dream, future, graduation, hope,
Form: Acrostic
The Souls Progress
I walk in the shadow of death,
I have neglected to care for my soul,
creeping age, brings it close with each breath,
Faith is the breath for...

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Categories: eschewed, religious,
Form: Verse
Paparazzi
Jude's
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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eschewed, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Once More
Once More…
(Apropos Orlando)

Once more and again
bigotry spreads
like a keloid of shame
across the face
of the promise land.

Once more
liberty and justice
proves to be 
only for some—
serving Satan
in...

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Categories: eschewed, analogy, bereavement, discrimination, eulogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Newborn Baby
Newborn baby please don't cry
Don't blame yourself that your mom died
She perished for you, she had her time
She wanted you to have yours in this...

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Categories: eschewed, baby, child, death, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Usa Nation
~THE  USA NATION~

Observe, the very last of boys and girls.
Teachers decide now if they might be birds?

Educators, these, are also high above you.
Parents’ rights...

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Categories: eschewed, america, children, education,
Form: Couplet
The Running Chestnut- Onomatopoetic
what a running chestnut sounds like                   ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eschewed, funny, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Avariciously She Wanted To Be a Poetess
Two Poems



Avariciously she wanted to be a poetess

Cryptic colloquial eloquent words possessed

Often elusive eschewed from the theme

Limericks and rhymes avoiding etymology means

She an emissary of...

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Categories: eschewed, humorous, poems,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things