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Premium Member A Gentle Slam
Simply unaware....or perhaps I don't care
what others say or do
It's partially true
I'm through

Used to care what they think
of my words, of my ink
not anymore....
So much...

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Categories: exception, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



You'Ll Be a Mountain
I know its hard to imagine now
But some day you’ll be the key and not the lock
The exception not the rule
Some day you’ll be a...

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Categories: exception, anxiety, bullying, child abuse,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member - Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -

- JANUARY -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen...

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Categories: exception, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Admissions of a Sloth
I like to exercise my mind, but how I hate to work.
Whatever needs exertion is the action that I shirk.
Labor with the brain is fine....

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Categories: exception, funny, workme,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Friendships For Life
Some people you meet leave an lasting impression
Some pass through without even a mention
The ones that stand out
Leave us no doubt
Friendships for life are without...

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Categories: exception, friendship,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member - a Tribute To the Washing Machine -
I received an email today :
"Would you like to join
The Underpants Club"
A new underwear
directly at your door
once a month
(for only 20 bucks)
Did you say once...

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Categories: exception, angst, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Under the Sea
Under the Sea (English Sonnet)


I’d like to go beneath the sea
exploring wonders down below
where fish and creatures dwell for free
and undeterred the currents flow. ...

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Categories: exception, imagination, travel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Life of Death
It takes its stand the moment we are born;
first breath of life invites its rival, death,
to hand in hand walk on a path that leads,
without...

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Categories: exception, death, life, truth,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Dread of Farmer Fred
I went to visit Farmer Fred
Found him out in his wood shed
He was splitting up some oak
As I approached, he paused and spoke

“When I was...

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Categories: exception, corruption, evil, hate,
Form: Free verse
We Who Laugh Last, Laugh Best
That foolish stranger who had wandered into town
bickering with folks, trying to shove them around
was nothing more than an old worn-out clown.
Beneath Soup Creek Bridge,...

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Categories: exception, community, poets,
Form: Elegy
Warriors Final Due
The moon had held a wickedness 
So unlike many of night I've seen
Embraced in an eerie listessness
While projecting an ominous scene

This night a warriors life...

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Categories: exception, betrayal, conflict, courage, war,
Form: Rhyme
Two Hand Clap
I've got a fist full of Buddha,
And a fist full of Rand,
A pocket full of Jesus,
And the other's filled with sand,
That's in case I need...

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Categories: exception, america, anti bullying, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Christmas Haunting
The old man had always had an unnatural fondness 
for the animal but could never seem to bond with human easily, 
with the exception of...

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Categories: exception, introspection, christmas, old, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nasty Panda
China charges 1 million annually
For each panda in our zoos
If we won't pay in full
Then the pandas we will lose
Nasty Panda's the exception
No one wants...

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Categories: exception, animal, corruption, dark, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Hey Stop Calling Him Retard Joe You Guys
School Bus drivers always have stories to tell and most of them come directly from the children that once our rode our buses. This one...

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Categories: exception, childhood, growing up, life,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things