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Premium Member The Precipice
Is it insane to want to watch your step,
to purposefully plant a foot?
 Must one’s eyes always be downcast,
if not pierced or piercing are we...

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Categories: gratuitous, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Floccinaucinihilipilification and Very Little Heart
Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Heart
    (Second of Three Poem Trilogy)

II

Winter blowing in fierce, bitter cold now lingers
soon the "old and useless" will...

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Categories: gratuitous, appreciation, art, creation, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The One Who Remains Silent Ii
~The ONE who remains SILENT II~
Original Poem written: December 18, 2016

I've written it before, and I'll write it again...

~My own personal quote~

“The ONE who remains...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gratuitous, appreciation, silence,
Form: Verse
The Spry Metropolis
Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a...

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© David Hart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gratuitous, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Flammer Me Gimbels, Number 42
Flammer Me Gimbels #42
(a Vogon Pirate poem)

Flammer me gimbels, me trimbels and dromies,
Whenceforth I caminal scrabbit thy foamies.
Jeerbo or Jabox, ex labbit. Ex findle
Will not...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gratuitous, confusion,
Form: Vogon Poetry



Premium Member The Final Danse Macabre
* for maximum effect cue audio at stanza break

"For as they were in those days before the flood... so the presence of the Son of...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gratuitous, bible, judgement,
Form: Haibun
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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Categories: gratuitous, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Twas the Night Before the Wedding
Twas the night before my cousin's 
wedding
He reluctantly gave in to the 
bachelor party vetting
A burlesque, tawdry strip club was 
the setting
Unbeknownst to him, the...

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Categories: gratuitous, funnynight, night,
Form: Rhyme
Anniversary
varnished memories
gratuitous rendezvous
votive ritual...

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Categories: gratuitous, anniversary, dedication
Form: Haiku
Premium Member This Is Feminist Us
It's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.

I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this...

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Categories: gratuitous, anger, fear, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dance Monkey Dance
Dance, Monkey, Dance!

Commiserate with the dearly departed
The dead stay dead
Consummate your marriage with anarchy

Dance, monkey, dance!

The media plays you like a fiddle
This life's damned little...

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Categories: gratuitous, community, corruption, political, racism,
Form: Free verse
Between the Devil and the Sea ( Scylla and Charybdis )
Between The Devil and The Sea
( Scylla and Charybdis )
 
Cosmetic the creature cover girl
is accessible only at night
a picture female in her temple
laying askew...

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Categories: gratuitous, life, people, social, urban,
Form: Free verse
Peace of Mind
You hear about holidays that people hate
Rarely of exotic taste, finding the better fare, 
Cheap enough for travel agents to promote
Such resorts which they advertise...

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Categories: gratuitous, blessing, desire, destiny, health,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Lifeboat the End
Part 10

The Sun high above was swiftly given a shove
    As the Moon appeared to swallow the night.
And with another miserable day......

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Categories: gratuitous, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Africa, Refrain From Prejudice
This is a spanking New Year,
A year to voyage with greed of peace and affinity.
Let not your mutable hate blind you from good
But be good...

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Categories: gratuitous, violence, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

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