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Premium Member Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ten Years Had Raced Into Oblivion's Cup
Second Poets Tribute Series, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
Chained am I, to desolation's huge anchor
on its long black ship,...

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Categories: general, anger, art, dedication, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: general, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: general, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Heart of Gold
Friends who are so far apart
find it difficult to help when the
sweetest, gentlest people are in need.

How we of open hearts wish we were near:
to...

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Categories: general, beauty, father, friendship,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: general, age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gettysburg Hauntings
Gettysburg Hauntings

When General Meade met General Lee
At Gettysburg in 1863

Sons of the South battled Northern brothers
And neither side has ever recovered

Fifty-one thousand lives lost in...

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Categories: general, history, mystery, visionarywar, war,
Form: Couplet
Guardian Angels
Goodnight my dear boy and what's that you say?
You want me to chase the bad monsters away?
Well, I'll tell you a tale that may just...

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Categories: general, fantasy, love, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Manchester Attack
Yet another incident has happened today
When will these terrorists go away
Manchester this time at a concert
Some taken to early some really hurt

Thier war now affecting...

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Categories: general, child, conflict, together, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: general, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Tongue Study
Tongue Study

Tongues
Steady it wags
needing to know
more, about the
the very thing that
causes wars.
peace and pain.
I study my tongue.        ...

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Categories: general, analogy, introspection, judgement,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ghosts of Gettysburg
This sacred soil that once resounded with the musket's rattle,
Imbued with mingled blood of Blue and Gray spilt in brutal battle,
Now stands serene with only...

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Categories: general, historymen,
Form: Rhyme
Little Toy Soldiers
Little Toy Soldiers going off to war
None will ever live to  see age twenty four
None of them even  know what they're fighting for
Little...

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Categories: general, boy, goodbye, peace, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Heart
What is this thing we call a HEART? We spend our entire lives talking about it. When a child is born and you gaze upon...

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Categories: general, heart, heartbroken, love,
Form: Narrative
Tiptoe
Tiptoe, tiptoe, what they say is not what they say it is . . . 

Cameras rolling, take one, action! 
“How stupid can you be?...

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Categories: general, political, power, presidents day,
Form: Political Verse
There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek
As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek,
Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak.
She raised her gun and...

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Categories: general, poets,
Form: Narrative

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