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Premium Member Auction of Emotions
When fate pulls at my haiku of heartstrings,
I curse the syllables of my poetic musings.
If I do not express my sorrows,
how will petals blossom in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gambits, angst, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Rendezvous With Ecstasy
RENDEZVOUS WITH ECSTASY

Had I a nonchalant finesse
Would you a rendezvous acquiesce
Or would my chances be precarious
Having failed with all my gambits various

I’ll try perchance a...

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Categories: gambits, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Love Redefined and Refined
So deep a love to feel
Your muse Cupid would wonder
When the golden chance you couldn’t steal
Preferring instead to explore gambits like a gander

Pushing a prevarication...

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Categories: gambits, poems,
Form: Free verse
I Asked Myself a Rhetorical Question
I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
 ...

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Categories: gambits, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Narrative
Sheh-Mate
I like the chess. 
The figures are equal 
and clear the rules
(with a little superiority 
after all of the white)
And various gambits
the women’s and
the king’s...

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Categories: gambits, games,
Form: Free verse



A Petty Imitation
Where there is a petty imitation
There'll be pests, posters of sensation
Grouping of hesitations
Complaints to order, servings of hallucinations
There'll be soap-box amatory slander
About walking coat-hangers slender
It...

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Categories: gambits, business, life, politicalcry, smile,
Form: Couplet
Who Needs a Title
Thunderous palpitations upon benign sedaments,
Miscreants vindicate with justice of six cents.
A vociferous tyrannosaurus bursts sickly
Sanitized wives and rodents scurry very

Sedately towards dainty cliffs and heights
Of...

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Categories: gambits, angel, universe,
Form: Ballad
Dribbling
Dribbling

If someone continually gets knocked down
Eventually they will give up the ghost
If around every corner is more negativity
Which of us has lost the most?

Started to...

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© Neil Johns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gambits, angst, art, fish, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring's Coming An Iou In Lieu
Slovenly winter's sojourn lingers, but dwindles away.
Petulant cold snaps, squalls and hail the exit price you pay.
Riddance wrung from season squeezed by hugs to relent...

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Categories: gambits, feelings, hope, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Fate and the Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued Greek Heroes And Mythology Series)
Part Two....
referenced, 
*Scylla and Charybdis, *Homer, *Iliad and The Odyssey, *Hades,...

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Categories: gambits, art, encouraging, fate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Conscience Exhorts Restitution Regarding Lost Wedding Band
Thru deliberate seductive
liaisons, ploys, and underhanded gambits,
I tendered illicit, explicit and complicit shenanigans
blatant actions to foment coital adulteration.

Ofttime these discrete liaisons found me removing 
linkedin...

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Categories: gambits, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving,...

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Categories: gambits, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme
Here's Another One For the Lyricman
Life As A Highway Robber

Escape from captivity pulled off
     when I came of age
boyhood begrudged,
     and bested...

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Categories: gambits, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gift of Glory
God gave me a great gift of glory
A gift of a good gracious guardian, 
Gifts of Gaiety, Gumption and Grief
God’s gift grants no gates for...

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Categories: gambits, god,
Form: Alliteration
Wrong Date
It was not a Parisian café
though it tried to be.
Our teeth were strong
they flashed
intermittently.
The house wine was red,
the bread was good bread.
The creamy leaf was...

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Categories: gambits, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs