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Premium Member Opportunity Expiring
Pardon me, I am aspiring
to some day be retiring,
but first I must be acquiring
a position. Though I’m not keen on perspiring
I admit I have been...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expiring(a), jobs,
Form: Monorhyme



Where Do They Go, These Little Poems
They crumble like confetti,
These little poems I write,
One letter on each tiny scrap,
They blow into the night.

To tickle the toes of a passing star,
And burn...

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Categories: expiring(a), fantasy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cradled By Petals
I stroll beneath lavish trees 
exploring  the break of morning freely, 
and through a swarm of boughs' embrace
jasmines twirl around the edges 
like a...

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Categories: expiring(a), beauty, garden, peace,
Form: Verse
Identical Twins
Identical Twins



Time is passing
Life is fleeting
We will all be memories
Some day

We bid them farewell
Those we have known
With no compensation
For broken hearts

Each life has known us
Though...

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Categories: expiring(a), lifelove,
Form: Free verse
Rhythm and Poetry
Damn where is my mind at, striving and finding the best way to adapt,

           ...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expiring(a), destiny, dream, meaningful, psychological,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Born To Live-Difficult To Conquer
The birth place of world war II
after an invasion void of any declaration.
Stamps on history’s book by feminine hands
to ascertain the first death sentence of...

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Categories: expiring(a), community, education, environment, history,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Blessed On a Deserted Island
Who would imagine that my life would come down to the edge of a blade
worked and worked on stone, scraping off goo and removing the...

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Categories: expiring(a), beach, environment, god, image,
Form: Couplet
I Breathe Your Name
I breathe your name,in the silence of my heart
Your passion my awakening,your love my flame
With each rising of the sun my breath departs
Your presence is...

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Categories: expiring(a), how i feel, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Georg Cantor Chasing Infinity I Must
Georg Cantor. Chasing infinity. I must!

He was a very lonely man
Tortured by desire to understand
The world and the God’s mind 
Like a fearless seasoned sailor...

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Categories: expiring(a), anxiety, death, dedication, deep,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Why Kites Fly
Fear and violence and guilty judgment
display synaptically sharp,
competing "Loser!" skittish economies.
Love and active peace sustain buoyance,
resilience,
robustly revolving away
from red skies of mourning;
cooperatively mutual Win-Win
ecology of...

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Categories: expiring(a), analogy, earth, environment, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member City of Hope
What a city I murmur to myself looking at its map.
We approached the city known as Dis,
with its vast army and its burdened citizens.
At last...

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Categories: expiring(a), animal, city, grief, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sacrificial Altars
When did business ethics
find roots in science
rather than re-connecting
humane re-ligion?

Thereby exempting,
divorcing,
earning a merely fair
and acceptable free economic pass
to continue extraction
exploitation
to build corporate empires
divorced from religion's...

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Categories: expiring(a), business, health, integrity, religion,
Form: Political Verse
' Tears of a Candle - Ceasing '
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jun-jun villanueva 

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teardrops emanate from within
inner bane, anguish perforatin'
space for vigour...

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Categories: expiring(a), death, life, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sensual Hearts and Wilted Flowers
You're the flame around my heart,
am I still your smile
when we're apart?

As you leave your flame flares up,
but when I look into your face,
I miss...

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Categories: expiring(a), fire, health, heart, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fire's Fertile Advent
We are fire.
We fire.
We consume and produce warm memories,
and colder dissonance.
Where were we before first flicker of flame?
What were we before our time?

After our last...

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Categories: expiring(a), adventure, birth, death, environment,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs