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Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imitations, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ice Cube Pie
I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a...

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Categories: imitations, business, humorous,
Form: Limerick
For Those Who Have Considered Suicide When Who They Are Is Not Enough
For the days when your skin feels inadequate
And you want to escape from it
When you've scrutinized every fiber of your being & want to trade...

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Categories: imitations, courage, depression, love, power,
Form: I do not know?
If Languages Were Instruments
If languages were instruments,
English, the language of my own America,
Would be something like a piano.
Each word is clear and sharp-
When we sing, the note does...

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Categories: imitations, arabic, international, language, music,
Form: Free verse
A Butterfly
I was with my daughters at their favorite playground.  I watched them chase each other 
around the merry-go-round.  Laughing and enjoying the extremely...

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Categories: imitations, naturelife, beautiful, me, lost,
Form: Free verse



Sign of the Times
SIGN OF THE TIMES

Silence is not always precious made in gold
In fact can be base alloy: dull and cold
Gleam gone dim, for the lack of...

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Categories: imitations, life, spoken word,
Form: Acrostic
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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Categories: imitations, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Talking Drum
A drum with a voice I am
Active, proud and can smile
Made of cow-hide and wood
I can mime and make noise
I am here to be hired...

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Categories: imitations, africa, allegory, analogy, political,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Except For Politicians
life is like 
a long cartoon movie clip
not as well done as a Disney

and the universe 
is peopled by poor imitations
of cartoon characters

not as monstrous...

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Categories: imitations, culture, fantasy, funny, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Desperate Escapes
Desperate Escapes
                       ...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imitations, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Checkmate
Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were...

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Categories: imitations, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Mouths Are For Tasting
Eyes are for seeing.
Ears are for hearing.
Noses are for smelling and breathing
both in and out.
Mouths are for tasting
both bitter hard
and sweet soft truths,
trusts and mistrusts,
cooperations...

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Categories: imitations, beauty, culture, education, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Flavor Sensations
We push to imitate nature's
flavors, both sour and sweet;
compare the taste of lemons
to that of a lush, ripe peach,
or the nectar of pure honey
to the...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imitations, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Incarnate What We Digest
Eugenics is about monoculturing supremacist delusions 
of and for AnthroCentric Perfection.
Eumemics is about multiculturing nutritional inclusions
of and for Matriarchal-Iconic EarthTribe's nature-spirit Yintegration.

If we wish to...

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Categories: imitations, culture, destiny, health, life,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Betwixt - Between
Betwixt-Between
      

    I woke up
            ...

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Categories: imitations, imagery, peace,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things