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Premium Member Sandy Hook Tribute
Cruelly taken by a heartless act,
gone without a chance to say goodbye.
Innocent souls roam the heavens,
safe from the harsh realities of life.

A mother's eyes overflow...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hook, death,
Form: Free verse



If You Weren'T Such a Nut Meg
She had so many chances
     Yet she kept muffin it up
Butter intentions were good
     Just not much...

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Categories: hook, food, fun, humor, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Long To Write a Poem - Just Right
I long to write a poem just right
Between the somber and the light
To tease the edges of a heart
To hook the reader from the start
Seduce...

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Categories: hook, bullying, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: hook, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Robot Revolution
Abandon futile attempts to run
Behold the process has begun
Step toward your darkest fear
Let’s flip the switch to a new frontier

Penetrating deep within
Evacuate your mortal sin
This...

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Categories: hook, computer, dark, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Never Never Land
Sad broken boy
When will you become a man
You try flying high
wishing you were Peter Pan
But you don’t understand 
the stuff you’re putting in your veins
...

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Categories: hook, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Queen Size Bed
“The Queen-Sized Bed”.
			 © London F. Buss

  A queen-size bed was coming slowly,
  down the rough dirt track.
  As it drew closer,
...

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Categories: hook, death, for her, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hold Your Head High
keep dwelling in the clouds, my mentor said
and shun those who would drag you through the mud
their heinous wish to keep you seeing red
is Satan's...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hook, appreciation, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: hook, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: hook, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hook, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Weaver
T’was flair from the cobbles that drove the loom
with forced hardy sweat they laboured till eve
a family tradition from the womb
with threaded shuttle and reed...

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Categories: hook, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Little Boy Lost
Poor Little Boy Lost plays a game of peekaboo
Pretending everything in his world is well
Spoiled was his plan for organizing a coup
and now he hopes...

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Categories: hook, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hook, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme
A Farm Yarn
When we were young boys on our farm.
A fish tale never meant any harm,
We oft were given a look,
When from such a tiny brook,
We claimed...

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Categories: hook, adventurefish, fishing,
Form: Limerick

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