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Premium Member The Gilded Leaves of Autumn Sigh
When fleeting storm said goodbye
The darkened sky detected a lie
Besting clouds her thoughts host
Drenching doubts that block riposte.

As the cobalt sky and ocean meet
On the...

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Categories: host, autumn, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: host, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Clerihew Soup
I tell you I like, that Wayland a bunch
He'd be the guy, to be there in a crunch
Not afraid of humor, he paves the way
With...

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Categories: host, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: host, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

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Categories: host, animal, identity,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Wisdom From Trees
Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the...

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Categories: host, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Seashells
Seashells                  

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Categories: host, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After the Storm
cry
in the 
privacy
of your sad thoughts
behind louvered blinds
till pain wanes…then
wipe away
your tears:
smile


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Categories: host, emotions,
Form: Ninette
Premium Member The Words That Flow Through My Pen
Sometimes, life has no reason unlike the seasons
It aimlessly drifts with the wind
We find ourselves in places of unfamiliar faces
Bathing in the shadows of sin
Our...

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Categories: host, introspection, life, on writing
Form: Free verse
The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: host, abuse, analogy, black african
Form: Haibun
The Blood Stained Bridge
Into the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...

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Categories: host, allegory,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Parasite
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The widow, dressed in glossy black,	
glides from the shadows at the back.	
A veil lies slack across her face	
to mask the grief her features lack.	

Possessed of...

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Categories: host, assonance, bereavement, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
God Is Love
Love is an authority.
It dictates choice and consequence
and joins together all the wayward lamenters
who grieve at their loss of purity.

Love is an actuality.
It breathes new...

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Categories: host, lost love, lovelove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Do I Go Duet
(Female)  O' Lord where do I go
Just what will I see
And when will I know
What truth means to me

Male)  To who can I...

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Categories: host, religious, song, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: host, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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