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Premium Member Muscatine, Ia
Mark Twain recalled my town for its extraordinary sunsets.
Under rainbows too, I’ve seen its rows of corn stalks glow.
Summertime brings big scrumptious melons famous for being the best!
Come winter, you can ice skate or sled down hills of snow.
At one time, Muscatine gave refuge to...

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Categories: ia, city,
Form: Acrostic
Wiser Miser Who Ia a Supervisor
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a knowledge miser
when he had become wiser
now a supervisor

what we did intend
much money to them will lend
all of it can spend

price gains and gains
from all of our money drains
price high still remains

more oil can create
high price will eradicate
how to educate

great start made to stitch
are not...

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Categories: ia, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
L Ia Ains Cy Rinn a Elle (Part Six)
From my pocket I draw forth my friend

The best of me

I have held her inside this moistened leaf of lily
Since the day I set down booted feet across these desert sands
One lifetime ago I cried a single tear and herein I placed
As it lay dying...

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Categories: ia, friendship, happiness, hope, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Locked Ia a Cage
Locked in a Cage



I Have been locked in this cage.. 
I am going crazy - up in a rage.. 
They should of put me - in a padded cell.. 
My knuckles are bleeding - all to hell.. 
Feraously mad - I have lost all control.....

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Categories: ia, angst, confusion, depression, imagination,
Form: Couplet
What Ia Life
when i think back
my life was stack
good well under stood
sometine bad
yes i was sad
not mad 
now its all right
things or bright
WHAT A LIFE...

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Categories: ia, adventure, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
My Calling at an Intersection along IA 136
A soft breeze whispered
as I stood near a spread
of fields
where my heartfelt story was told.

I recalled the beginning.
The middle was unfolding
and I didn’t know the end.

My assignment 
of controlling traffic here
would last two weeks

yet a voice inside
said this was where
I was meant to be.

O, the...

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Categories: ia, allegory, june, loss, remember,
Form: Free verse




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry