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An Open Letter To Poetry Contest Guidelines
I’m sitting at my desk typing on my computer. 
My head is a satellite broadcasting a disrupted signal. 
I can’t get a clear picture of what I want to write. 
The channel keeps changing as I switch between memories and then it happens. 

A message...

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Categories: guidelines, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Guidelines
On the side of the winding road
They stood with wooden expression
With singe focus to keep and goad
Those that pass in rapid progression

On the side of the road’s edge
They stood holding each other’s arms
With a solemn silent pledge
To protect those passing from harms

On the side of...

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Categories: guidelines, allegory, life, travel,
Form: Italian Sonnet
One Path, No Guidelines
This whole time I’ve been,
Slipping away from who,
The photographs tell me is you.

And the memories led me,
Indefinitely through,
This swaying path that was all I knew.

And as the,
Inevitable nears,
I learn to disregard my fears.

And though I have,
Struggled on my way,
I’m proud to say,
That this is who...

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© Jay Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guidelines, dedication
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member POETIC CREDO guidelines A TENSON TALK poem
CREDO-POETRY IS AN ORAL ART AT ITS BEST WHEN  RECITED
                   it then becomes a two-way unique one-off.experience .
TRADITIONAL LINE CAPITALISATION     RHYME ..in...

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Categories: guidelines, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Reforesting Guidelines
GROUP VALUES

Belief in WinWin organic ability
to cooperatively manage secular 
as BothAnd sacred 
health development vocations.

Desire to create
open DNA-familiar GREEN systems--
Great
ReForesting
EconomicYang 3D SpaceDriven
EcologicalYin 4D TimeFlowing
Networking organic WinWin 
reverse-time gaming cooperative system
especially following matriarchal-wombed
DNA and RNA strings and streams of nutritional 
reverse time as revolving EarthTribe space.

Commitment...

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Categories: guidelines, health, integrity, love, paradise,
Form: Political Verse
Guidelines For Abnormal
Guidelines for Abnormal

Started off with gatherings which were informal;
Then had started checking out what was normal;
Wanted to know,
Blow by blow,
How to establish guidelines for being abnormal.

Jim Horn...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guidelines, 1st grade, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member My Funeral Guidelines
At my funeral they will be playing Helen Reddy
“I am woman, hear me roar!” Cher’s “Gypsy’s, Tramps and Thieves”
And Adam Lambert. I love all his stuff!
I will be sitting behind my grandchildren, sending them the giggles

My besties will tell the funniest stories; there will be...

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Categories: guidelines, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Guidelines
Sometimes beliefs that we held in our youth
Lose the certainty we once regarded as truth,
Then we have to decide what to keep, what to shed,
What still fits us or what is beginning to shred.

Simply clinging to all that we learned in the past,
Even though, at...

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Categories: guidelines, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fema Guidelines
Strange times mean you’ve got to think fast,
Or our COVID gains just might not last.
With six feet of space,
Put a mask on your face
When you shelter from nuclear blasts!
...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guidelines, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Guidelines
The coach on the sidelines
     the foreman in the shop
   Each follows certain guidelines
     so his team comes out on top

   Our leaders in Washinton
     they have their guidelines...

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Categories: guidelines, judgement, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
GUIDELINES



The sunniest mornings,
 the most contemplative afternoons,
 the most starry nights, 
conveys my soul, 
guides me through life...!...

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Categories: guidelines, allusion, analogy, perspective,
Form: Carpe Diem
Necessary Guidelines
D-eadly
I-nfection
A-ttacks
N-ose
N-astily
E-ndangering

B-ody
A-s
Q-uarantine
U-ses
I-ts
N-ecessary
G-uidelines

Topic: Birthday of Dianne Baquing (April 09) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: guidelines, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Guidelines Give Good Chance
G-uidelines give good chance
I-n containing the terrible threat; 
N-eatness and cleanliness
A-bate the dreaded droplet.

E-xact guidelines give good chance, 
S-trict standards stop the spread; 
T-he contagious coronavirus
O-f hazard will be dead.
C-ontrol the contamination, 
A-pply the physical distance; 
D-efeat the invisible infection, 
O-nce guidelines give good chance.

Topic:...

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Categories: guidelines, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Guidelines
R-estrictions
A-nd
Q-uarantine
U-ltimately
E-vade
L-ethal

D-isease
A-s
G-uidelines
S-top
I-nfection

Topic: Birthday of Raquel C. Dagsi (May 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: guidelines, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
The Fate of Poetry
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Having never studied poetry, but composed and wrote it most of my adult life, in the Army, commissions for lovesick, homesick mates. In civvy street, mainly for my wife, the odd commission for enstranged lovers, and off the top my head as party pieces. My...

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Categories: guidelines, anger, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry