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Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: harmful, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: harmful, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
From My Window Lofty High
From my window lofty high
I sit and watch the passersby 
Safely from within the womb
Of this quiet and private room
That's my asylum in the sky
And,...

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Categories: harmful, introspection, life, parody, people,
Form: Rhyme
Alchemy
How do you change a lie into the truth?
Alchemy, dear children ...
this is how it's done, using unverifiable proof

First, you take a sick, dirty lie,
and...

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Categories: harmful, corruption, dark, psychological, word
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease
The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!

Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter...

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Categories: harmful, humanity, love, peace, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When the Tab Comes Due
Frail humans we are and mistakes are made,
but there will be a time to pay
for pain inflicted on others.

Run swiftly from dark clouds hovering above,
baggage...

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Categories: harmful, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Clouds
The clouds are massive and dark
                   ...

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© Chris Hagy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harmful, beautiful, deep, peace, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member nature's cry
Listen  to her sobs she is crying because of pollution for the damage that is being done. Hundreds of chemicals that human kind release...

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Categories: harmful, beautiful, planet, pollution,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Contretemps
Angry acts begin. 
Harmful words would never flare, 
Count to ten then once again. 

Wildfire spreading fast, 
With mistaken, muddled acts. 
Smokey aftertaste will last....

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Categories: harmful, allegory, allusion, analogy, assonance,
Form: Rhyme
Pass the Salt, Please
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it 
be salted? It is henceforth cast out,...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harmful, nature
Form: Narrative
Premium Member How To Give a Cat a Pill
1) Pick up the cat and cradle it in the crook of your arm as if holding a baby. Position forefinger and thumb on either...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harmful, cat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moving Lightly
I move lightly at sixty,
a little less than the max.
Any faster, and the sunflower shells I spit
blow back in my face,
and any slower and the...

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Categories: harmful, allegory, introspection, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falsifying Truth
The concerned politician was running for re-election
   But a very cool, steamy sex scandal he struggled to hide
He used his thick, bald head...

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Categories: harmful, confusion, politicalwife, love,
Form: Quatrain
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the...

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Categories: harmful, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before Spring Came
Before spring came, in late February
to the blooming and jolly hills 
I ran, breathing heavily and frantically,
touching the perfumed blossoms 
of a solitary, old cherry...

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Categories: harmful, adventure, animals, childhood, children,
Form: Narrative

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