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Premium Member Whitewashing the Fence
I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foible, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Promise Etched Across the Breadth of My Heart
If my love were to be frozen in time
would its enamored glow forever remain
as poetry in a book, Sonnets written in rhyme?
If in flakes of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foible, love, passion, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Oh! Dear Gawd!
Mom looks through windows
A watched pot will never boil
A daughter's courtship





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Categories: foible, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Senryu
Villain Unmasked
Villain Unmasked


In odd places the Villain appears,
In the right places he disappears-
On merry moments then re-appears.

For, such is the habit of a Villain
Who enjoys to...

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Categories: foible,
Form: Rhyme
Tunde Canada
The story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to 
Embroidered in revenge.

Tunde Canada! 
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard,...

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Categories: foible, discrimination, metaphor, pride, rude,
Form: Free verse



I Am Who I Am
I am sensitive, self-conscious,
Nervous, listless, anxious,
Caught up in the grind of life
Its stress and its strife.

With no goal, no aim, no purpose,
Oh, just living a...

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Categories: foible, self,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Stupidity
Stupidity

A tragic foible—
For those so blinded in life.
Stupidity’s sad . . . 
Negation’s ugly face . . . 
To be challenged at all times!

Gary Bateman,...

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Categories: foible, allegory, depression, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Tanka
Man Vs. Nature
Man versus Nature, who will win?

Almighty nature or man with his sin

Which one will want it more?

Who will settle the score?

Let the colossal battle begin!




~4th...

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Categories: foible, nature, people
Form: Limerick
Premium Member God's Redemption
We saw in the garden the seed
Planted by man’s first evil deed
God sent his own son
To be the right one
To absorb sin so man be...

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Categories: foible, religion
Form: Limerick
Writing It Right
No matter how or what you write:
A myth, a melodrama or a mystery,
About your life or a dreadful night
In a poem, a song or a...

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Categories: foible, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Stop Playing With That!
Keep playing with that
   and you will go blind, young man!
      Every boys' nightmare...


Won 5th place in the...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foible, funny
Form: Senryu
Scourmoueinn
ScourMoueINn 
ScourMoueINn 
 
Sahrah tends. Sahrah tends the bar at the Inn. The ScourMoueINn. She washes dishes 
passes out Ale to the largesse man drinks...

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Categories: foible, imagination, science fiction, teen,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Mantra
Spell sanguine sell
Wonder words well


Meet myriad maze
Dance dreamy daze


Vibrant verse voice
Play pretty poise


Bright blossoms bloom
Gripes gather gloom


Mantra moves moods
Grandeur grooms good


Signs signal swift
Draw doubtful drift


Art...

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Categories: foible, beauty,
Form: Alliteration
Not For the Finicky Or Fainthearted
My mind is experiencing a fastidious flatulence; slightly fiendish, and not for the
finicky or fainthearted. 
I fidget amidst it's fanatical far-fetched farce yet stand fearless,...

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Categories: foible, funny, imagination, life, parody,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Disobedience
A foible is the result of a flaw
in those disobeying the Law;
our ancestors defied God,
not honoring their Lord...
and they lost all the richness they saw....

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Categories: foible, death, loss, sad, social
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things