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Premium Member Winter Solstice
beckons darkest day
offering a farthing of
moonshine and starlight —
coupled flesh warm beneath quilt
Winter wine keeps spirits’ bright

beckons darkest day
coldness of the Christ’s sealed tomb —
tears...

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Categories: farthing, christian, christmas, winter,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member The Poo Poo Bird
They pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it...

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Categories: farthing, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M Not Nosey But
I've never been one to nosey but
Looking through my net curtains
I just happened to have a pair of binoculars in my hand
I'm a curious kinda...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farthing, class, crazy, england, eve,
Form: Free verse
And God Still Sits
It was first all, beautiful
And the plain blue sky spanned on either sides
With snow-white flakes drifting religiously
Over light-green steeples into a land
Beyond what my bulgy...

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Categories: farthing, africa,
Form: Elegy
Empty Bowls
With a thin and outstretched arm,
eyes agape with none it stares,
drained of all but a beating heart,
she hopes a farthing unsure to come,

Her hands are...

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© Iredia Uyi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farthing, child, child abuse, poverty,
Form: Quatrain



Thoreau's Question
On this Eid, as your sumum bonum 
Is consumerism and as your soul is 
Mortgaged to the Federal Reserve Bank
And hedonism, your mental wish-list has...

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Categories: farthing, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Riding On the Coattails of a Pebble
The universe revolves around patterns and numbers.
Like an insomniac knowing not the meaning of the word slumber.
To say it's a big place would be a...

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Categories: farthing, imagination, introspection, philosophy, universe,
Form: Prose Poetry
Beneath the Evening Lamplight
Beneath the evening lamplight, I sit on nature's floor
Entreating those emerging from their crystal paneled doors,
To ask a single farthing, or penny they might give,
And...

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Categories: farthing, gothic, life,
Form: Rhyme
Four Farthings For Four Chews
Four Farthing For Four Chews.
We only had a penny each but it could buy four chews
In the days when it was four farthings to a...

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Categories: farthing, nostalgia, money,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Las Naves De Madera
LAS NAVES DE MEDERA (Wooden Ships)
They wanted ships. What they got
was wooden shells
not a farthing from the Crown
for these floating buckets.
Six thousand corks, hastily riveted...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farthing, history, visionary, voyage,
Form: Free verse
Administration of Pineapples
Kindly stick to digging pineapples in the future as magic dust particles can really only spring up in defense patterns. And is it really wise...

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Categories: farthing, earth,
Form: I do not know?
How Interesting Is a Two Curved Toucan
senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very...

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Categories: farthing, april, arabic, art, august,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Victorian Poverty In London
Victorian Poverty In London.
.
Slumming it in adverse poverty
In Victorian London’s  
Limehouse White Chapel and Bethnal Green 
Dingy doss houses packed to the brim
Narrow dirty...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farthing, community, conflict, poverty,
Form: I do not know?
Monorhyme On Monorhymes
When monorhyming, try data mining
Rhymezone com surfing, all word rhymes searching
Best suffix finding, words with "ing" ending
Present tense verbing, use twice in singing
Nouning with morning,...

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Categories: farthing, funny, humor, humorous, poems,
Form: Monorhyme
How I Managed Not To Be a Doc
HOW I MANAGED not TO BE A DOC

You know something,
Me a thing, I think not worth than a farthing
was put in a college of Medicine.
Paternal...

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Categories: farthing, education, funny, father, father,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things