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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...

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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...

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Categories: guidelines, allegory, life, travel,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Miss Nightingale - Potd
In the flickering light of the lamp,
Despite the chilly night, air so damp,
She surveyed books so avidly read,
Studied the guidelines now in her head.
Time came:...

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Categories: guidelines, appreciation, care,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...

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Categories: guidelines, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Poetry Is My Voice
Imagination and subliminal thoughts are created-
       Seen through my minds eye....
This pen takes the shape of a scimitar-
 ...

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Categories: guidelines, inspirational
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Old Fashioned Christmas
It’ll be an old fashioned Christmas,
with Santa due down the chute.
I bet he Purells his reindeer, 
and Lysols his hazmat suit.

It’s an old fashioned Christmas.
We’ll...

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Categories: guidelines, 11th grade, care, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Free
Poetry is spontaneous, pure, raw emotion,
don't you dare label what I say as cliche. 
This is my perspective of life in motion,
through experiences encountered day...

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© Sam Jacks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guidelines, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Fellow Poets
Dear fellow poets – the young and the young once,

Modern poetry to me is “today’s poetry.” It presents poetry from the hearts of current writers...

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Categories: guidelines, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lust
Lord Eternal God
Please forgive me if I have Lust or excessive desire for sinful pleasures
Forbidden by the 6th Commandment
Distaste of holy things, perverted conscience
Hatred of...

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Categories: guidelines, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member I Am Childlike Not Childish
I am the ultimate fabricated furious me
Hiding my weathered, worn, wonderful sides
Pulling out the slow downs, hoe downs and stops

Dropping myself cleverly into convenience paths
Of...

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Categories: guidelines, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Childlike Faith
Luke 18:17 - Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter...

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Categories: guidelines, child, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit Prayer
Lord God,
Stretch our mind/s with deep understanding of Wisdom
To obtain positive understanding with every complications
Counsel us with guidelines in our work

Give us Fortitude, strength, Patience...

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Categories: guidelines, caregiving, childhood, education, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure 
One of the nation’s leading health problems
25% adults are known to have high blood pressure
50 million are at risk of developing it
High...

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Categories: guidelines, christian, food,
Form: Light Verse
Signs of the Times
SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Wow, this is cool.
Spectacular and groovy
So real to my intellect that I feel that I am a noetic ambiance.
Surreal and extroverted
I am...

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Categories: guidelines, imagery, life, metaphor, psychological,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Flash Mob Application
I'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.

Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.

I think this...

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Categories: guidelines, america, culture, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things