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Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: explainable, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Miracles Cannot Happen
Miracles Cannot Happen

The laws of nature cannot be violated
and for this Miracles do not occur.
At best they’re simply coincidences,
Interpretations, often a bit of a blur.

Belief...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explainable, allusion, atheist, conflict, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Prayer
I pray to gain great so the pains will leave my lane, drain

I seek light, that is brightness so I will leave the night darkness

I...

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Categories: explainable, beautiful, image, prayer, repetition,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In-Confident Realities
Disruptions  of realities confront our path through the difficulties
we have to endure, we proceed bravely through, with determination 
self-empowerment bestowing upon us with little...

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Categories: explainable, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Him and Her
A kind of love that's not explainable,
Two opposites which are now inseparable.
He is her support and she is his,
Trust this,it is an absolute bliss.
This is...

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Categories: explainable, best friend, for her,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Early Riser
I rose early today

before the dream’s end

tried to hold on to its tail
before shaken loose,
watching the Nightly
race off, to dive into
the fading dark at the
horizon....

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explainable, inspirational, introspection, mystery, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Puzzle of Life
Life is a magnificent gift from the nature
Which the humans are enjoying forever
Uninformed of the secrecies that cover
Make it an enigmatic and baffling poser.

Epochs have...

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Categories: explainable, life, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member River Deep, Mountain High
How do we ever know whom we've come to know
All we see is their periphery, externally on show
But what resides from within, can be River...

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Categories: explainable, angst, fear, people, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Symptoms of a Paralyzing Depression
The loneliness is unbearable
The misunderstanding is crippling
All the years of active rejection
Slowly engulfing the being 
How I thought them to be the worst
But it’s the...

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Categories: explainable, bullying, depression, feelings, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Made An Effort
I had really tried to make an effort
To talk about the great unknown
To explain some of the mysteries of my life
To venture beyond my mind's...

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Categories: explainable, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
A New Day
We finish natures intimacy
 as you leave you are alien
I cannot carry what is hidden  
I buttress the hallow denied
you have left me like...

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Categories: explainable, anxiety, appreciation, birth, conflict,
Form: Free verse
In Perpetuum Et Unum Diem
INTO AN ENDLESS AND SINGLE DAY

Uninterrupted torment, 
for the unfortunate ones, 
like me, 
to suffer as always, 
the craving is so strong, 
consistently, 
trying to...

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Categories: explainable, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Art Museum
The first thing we learned is beauty is in
The eye of the beholder.
Paintings or pictures can be done in
Oils, watercolors, pen,
Charcoal, pencil, marker,
Crayons, and chalk.
The...

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Categories: explainable, adventure, appreciation, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Away and Nothings
throwing flowers and grains into the wind 
so our metaphors can plant themselves 
seasons bring greetings from cycles
we want to be easier to understand
and this...

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Categories: explainable,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Major Not Minor
So major: 
Not minor
When things were cool 
Between us my dude an I 
we had an understanding.
I mean he knew, I was down for most...

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Categories: explainable, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Prose Poetry

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