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Premium Member Gordian Knot
The Gordian Knot of perpetuity
woven around your heart
is a thick thread of anguish
created by poison fingers from internal pain

Born in a mass of dark muck...

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Categories: gordian knot, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song
“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the...

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Categories: gordian knot, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Hip Hip Hooray
Hip Hip Hooray

              Hip Hip Hooray for today Naseby Day!
  ...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gordian knot, history, today, truth,
Form: Narrative
Mythical Wit, Whimsical Myth
- By Olongapoet

Are those dragon scales, your reason’s hides?
That I’d need St.George’s lance to pierce thru.
Need I look for angry Odin’s lost eye?
To see through...

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Categories: gordian knot, lost lovemyth,
Form: I do not know?
Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One
born two days 
after ole Punxsutawney i.e. the Doctor Phil - 
of woodchucks Latin Name = Marmota Monax 
nest resembled Rastafarian hair weave, 
which creature...

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Categories: gordian knot, beauty, blessing, butterfly, celebration,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member Now That We Are Here
 
We are here living life in this moment of time,
a moment ago is part of the past:
time to wash away layers of dusty old...

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Categories: gordian knot, life,
Form: Quintain (English)
Young Lady Shana Aubrey Harris Is Unique and a Special Precious Gift
Shana Aubrey Harris born two days after ole Punxsutawney 
   i.e. the Doctor Phil - 
   of woodchucks Latin Name =...

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Categories: gordian knot, absence, beautiful, dad, daughter,
Form: Ballad
Mind Games
The rainbow’d mist of memory,
Tells fond lies to the mind,
diffusing bitter moments,
that are better viewed half blind.

Recall selects with prejudice,
weaves tangled webs of lies,
a Gordian...

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Categories: gordian knot, introspection, life, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fool
A lone gunman enters a school
he is nothing more than a fool

He claims the lives of the innocent
But to heaven they will all be sent

There...

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Categories: gordian knot, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Sentiments To a Special Precious Progeny
this task to write thee (whom papa dust envy) difficult, 
   though aye selflessly assigned
thy beautiful daughter, whose sunny countenance 
  ...

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Categories: gordian knot, absence, angel, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Elegy
Black Night
Black night, black thoughts merging into one
No sword shall sever this gordian knot
that binds my being in longing and despair

My tortured soul cries out
filled with...

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Categories: gordian knot, courage, dark, depression, longing,
Form: Free verse
Wife, Sacred Heart Difficult Duty
Wife is pain killer
You get stressed  and pain is all over
By society, work place
She gives her heart and stress flies away

Wife is garbage collector
You...

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Categories: gordian knot, metaphor, song, wife,
Form: Lyric
Broken Mojo
See me a visualization of the truth. A fatal portrait selfie. A dose of reality. 1zt card life dealt me waz the high joker. Nocturnal...

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Categories: gordian knot, confidence,
Form: Lyric
Now That We Are Here
Life is entanglement plus time,
A Gordian knot of opportunities,
Each ravel a riddle to solve
or a battle to be won.

We grab and pull at the gnarls,
Greedy...

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Categories: gordian knot, appreciation, growth, love,
Form: Free verse
Oy Gevalt - Moi Ongepatchket Married Life - Part Uno
Once thy future spouse (Abby Zison) found herself in the family way
  (with what would turn out to be the first of our two...

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Categories: gordian knot, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs