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Premium Member The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...

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Categories: expunged, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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Categories: expunged, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member that best left wild -
I am a fool's fool
        haunted by a feral phantom
        ...

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Categories: expunged, dream, lost love, romance,
Form: Free verse
The Lady of the Lake Part Ii
Through raven’s eye, viewed I my fate, blood scribed upon the ground,
whilst shadows of the darkwood’s dead, stood solemnly around.
Accusing faces staring down, from purgatory’s...

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Categories: expunged, fantasyme, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Loss
Dark clouds drift slowly across the leaden sky.
The air is stagnant, still, heavy with promise of the tempest to come. 
Standing, abandoned, forlorn, on the...

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Categories: expunged, best friend, death, loss,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Kicking the Habit
By the time I was a score and four
I was retired from overseas duty.
Was husband to an American beauty.
Had smoked at least ten years or...

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Categories: expunged, healthday,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Few Things To Consider Before Brown-Nosing In My Presence
1) I hate brown-nosers far more than I hate most other nosers 
of virtually any known color!

2) I will make it a point to slap...

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Categories: expunged, angst, career, corruption, jobs,
Form: Free verse
Red Dawn Over the New Empire
RED SUN DAWNING OVER THE NEW EMPIRE
The dawning sun raises bloody red
Over the traffic clogged streets
And noxious polluted air 
Of the capital of Imperial America

The...

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Categories: expunged, america, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Doors
Doors

How fitting that the band’s name derived from Aldous Huxleys’ treatise
‘The Doors of Perception’ that purely aesthetic philosophical story of 
life through the window and...

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Categories: expunged, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Future Present Or Past
All that is left is scorched earth,
no future, present, or past.
For nukes have expunged Man's birth,
lost in the flash of their blast.

Intense heat melted the...

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Categories: expunged, angst, depression, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Flash Flood
a storm is brewing
dark hordes bristling to descend
dissenting thunder

coalescent scouts
in tentative teams essay
sun-parched earth awaits

sizzle of drizzle
pheremonal petrichor
harbingers of hope

cool breeze in the air
their work...

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Categories: expunged, environment, nature, rain, storm,
Form: Haiku
Defecation Dilemma
gluteus maximus left and right half moon cheek
   re: byte size buttock 
attached via usb (uniform firm behind) to this freak
  ...

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Categories: expunged, firework, happy, humorous, poetry,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Christmas


"Christmas"

I’ll stay with you 
towards Christmas
those 12 days 
and beyond

a strange few days
we meet in the nether
and hold on ...
like there’s no tomorrow

while the gryphons
try...

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Categories: expunged, christmas, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN

Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still...

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Categories: expunged, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Verse
Premium Member SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.

Deforestation dehydrates the caliginous evergreen region,
scorching...

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Categories: expunged, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things