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Premium Member Microshot
When looking for a quack with spiked rates
Some try the Windowed Office of Bill Gates
Coz right on the spot
He’ll give you a shot
But be prepared...

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Categories: genes, angst, corruption,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Silent Lies and Deception
Silent Lies and Deception


In the silence of murky waters
There slithers oily snakes of the night
Wearing masks of deception
Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue

The KGB...

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Categories: genes, corruption, evil, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween's Headless Horseman
One Halloween night when I was five
Rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle
Told us the tale of a famous vandal

One “Headless...

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Categories: genes, childhood, children, dad, halloween,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Bury Me In My Jeans
"I've rode the range now fer nigh on sixty years,
Brandin' dogies and ropin' them wily Hereford steers.
When I come to the end of the trail,...

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Categories: genes, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Is Here
I seldom think of her; so many years
have passed since she was taken from our earth.
The hurt and sorrow have been healed. And yet-
forever she...

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Categories: genes, death, inspiration, mother daughter,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Black Diamond Child
Black Diamond Child


Black diamond child with hopeless eyes
In your frightful future your talent lies

No worth is greater than watching you grow 
To a world whose...

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Categories: genes, black african american, child,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Mad Hatters
Madness, the Hatter blinks. 
Madness, Oz's link. 
Repercussions of concussions.
Madness was Portnoy's complaint**, 

Madness must reciprocate!

Hallucinations filter by....
Leary* winks at Dali's eye.
A house lands on...

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Categories: genes, confusion, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Things Returned To Green
The ruination of the mighty earth
Was started when explosions rocked the sky.
Ten years of darkness followed. . . then a heat,
And that is when the...

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Categories: genes, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Big Question For Those of Little Faith
Energy is neither created, nor destroyed
but does transform
witness the log burning in the fireplace
cellulose and lignin combining with oxygen
yielding heat, water and CO2
and with you...

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Categories: genes, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Evergreens
Evergreens
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of the whole wide global earth.

A sphere of sheer dynamism
from dawning till day is downed
There are no finer...

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Categories: genes, community, eulogy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Busy Or Not
Certain weeks I’m busy
And I run around a lot
So I’m either in a tizzy
Or I’m wondering why not.

For when plans are sometimes lacking
You might think...

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Categories: genes, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgiven
Falling like a silver star 
Driven by love like red car
Slipping on the icy blue part
For you screw up breaking heart

Wondering should I go far
Pondering...

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Categories: genes, appreciation, betrayal, birth, emotions,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Ego's Deceptions
Does life to anyone really make sense?
If it does, then I must be really dense.
God offers his wisdom and truth to man,
Yet it still seems...

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Categories: genes, confusion, god, humanity, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Whypt Syllabubs
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but...

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Categories: genes, desire, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Ambitious Girl
Ambitious Girl, your ideal for me

We living in a fake world, but you kept it real for me

Your drive is driving me crazy

Steering me to...

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Categories: genes, i miss you, lost
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs