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Premium Member Memorial Day, 2019 In America
...Americans are Americans, period.
No matter color, sex and for heavens, sake!
Not ....Their "party affiliation,"
On which some are insanely fixated.

We were born au natural.
We were not born as......

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Categories: getters, america, angst, holiday, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Bah, Humbug
...Ah, the glorious damned winter
and the inviting  
gray chill in the air.
I meander 
ever 
so
slowly 
past lawns
strewn 
with a cluttered array
of pagan snow zombies -
staring blankly,
as ......

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: getters, introspectionchristmas, snow, christmas, snow,
Form: Free verse
Am I Really Free
...I thought about my older brother when I wrote this


One morning I woke up
and my bed was now a king size,
No more chow lines
and my wisdom[wife] was puttin' in kitchen work
and I was blessed ......

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Categories: getters, freedom, hip hop, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Ode On Old Virtues
...Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.

Watch new high-fliers that surface from sh......

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Categories: getters, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Time-Wasters To Go-Getters
...So much time we have wasted here on Earth,
Never living up to the expectations given at birth.
Sitting around all day, just watching the time pass.
Because all you are to that university is a $ si......

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Categories: getters, adventure, encouraging, fun, growing
Form: Carpe Diem
Roadkill Vittles
...Driving along
What's that I smell
The daily delight
Of the latest roadkill

From raccoons to possums
In this flattened cuisine
As vultures take lunches 
On this finest of dining

Call us th......

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Categories: getters, animal, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse



North Korea Now and Not Black Power
...North Korea Now and Not Black Power

Is a prosaic 
Of something quite archaic
Country far behind.

This is what I thought of after
watching news about North
Korea exploding another bomb.
Inf......

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: getters, sad,
Form: Haiku
Blatant Bill Propose
...Blatant Bill Propose

Blatant bill by congress they did propose;
When a weirdo on you grows and grows;
Latest have heard,
Is totally absurd;
Trump has orange hair and nose that glows.

Guess ......

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: getters, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Never Say Die
...Navigating every path and summiting
Every mountain; climbing peaks and 
Valleys indefatigably. They don't give up, the...
Epitome of tenacity. Nothing weakens the...

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Categories: getters, inspiration, people, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Discount Medicine Man
...I have Geritol at half price
The tamper proof has only been breached twice
Viagra for you real go getters
B12 for Telemarketers aka appointment setters
Come on kids, help me out with my supply
R......

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Categories: getters, socialme, self, me, self,
Form:
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Strong
...Whenever obstacles arise 
Hinders future possibilities
And pin the victim down
To the ground

Dangers of allowing
Obstacles to reduce our zest to life
Endangers our chances of victory and 
Sl......

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Categories: getters, hope, journey, joy,
Form: Acrostic
Star-Gazing
...It is neat to gaze upon a star;
light shows the way -- God's route.
Adventuring near, adventuring far
affirming persons who doubt.

Light shows the way -- God's route.
My story is that light ca......

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Categories: getters, 11th grade, giving, light,
Form: Pantoum
Deconstruction
...This sea's end on a misnamed shore
Is not the terminus of your sin
Nor my beginning in the dusky yore
But we can in false time begin
To ridirect the world from the whim
And caprice of self-lost ......

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Categories: getters, history
Form: Verse
Unstoppable
...Unstoppable 

(Chorus)
I'm on it ,on it
Yeah a mission
Got to see, my own vision 
Make a decision, running out of time
The clocks keeps ticking and then it tocks
Doesn't  mean you have to 
K......

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Categories: getters, bird, change,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Smashing Rules
...I guess in the old days, rules were made for 
a reason.
Now, attention getters gone amuck like
beings in a quiet room with a loud crashing 
season.

Especially when your once best friend,
Take......

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Categories: getters, poetry, religious,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things