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Premium Member The Price of Free Will
Medicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted, 
God provides each one a life...

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Categories: hubris, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Nemesis-POTD
In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.

With nefarious intent,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hubris, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: hubris, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Karma
Yesterday, I followed her true invisible form
Colors turning a kaleidoscopic deep and warm

A state of mind, that makes reality feel alive
Stabbing moments that teach how...

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Categories: hubris, bullying, conflict, life, universe,
Form: Couplet
Dreaming
Will poems to my dull senses rise,
     In plainer garb, or apt disguise?
Can turn of phrase else serve an end,
 ...

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Categories: hubris, humor, humorous, poets,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Senseless
Through the shallows,
Through the depths,
The muck and the mire,
With trembling limbs
I succor the dying,

Strip the layers naked...
A conceit of consciousness
In psychic awareness,
I repute the repudiated
Caught...

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Categories: hubris, allegory, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet, No Longer Will I Sup At Your Banquet
My eyes were sorely struck when once they perceived
verity in your insightful words. Oh, how they grieved
when you chose to kneel low enough to kiss...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hubris, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: hubris, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Soul Divine
A candle burns deep, in core of every soul,
A sacred flame, an ethereal halo of intellect,
A guide heavenly, a mystique that educates,
Defying overtures of egotism...

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Categories: hubris, inspirational, peace, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Titanic- Fare Thee Well
On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic,
Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet.
Plush it was...

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Categories: hubris, angst, death, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From 'Ancient Greece'
Love of truth
the very light of Greece
A peninsula thrust out
like a bony hand,
‘God-tormented Greece,’
Zeus exclaimed, 
“I shall give man ‘an evil,’ as the price of...

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Categories: hubris, change, mythology, society,
Form: Free verse
The Meaning of Life: Extinction Or Transcendence
Since humanity first became a sentient species, aware of time, space and its own mortality, there has been only one question that matters:are we just...

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Categories: hubris, appreciation, atheist, death, god,
Form: Prose
No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration
There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the...

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Categories: hubris, parody,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Icarus Ignited Am I
they warned me
against extremes
intensity must not be indulged
"Flying in between
is your safety scene
not too high
not too low
don't look too longingly below
don't fly too close
to the...

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Categories: hubris, analogy, mythology, sensual,
Form: Narrative
Biography (Thesis Statement)
I rose not like flower or like tree
Not like eagle's hubris in the sun
Old skin shed in the divided city
Last clone of a manhood almost...

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Categories: hubris, history, life, philosophylife, me,
Form: Verse

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