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Premium Member In One Fell Swoop
Your words cut-  like a woodcutters axe
chopping me down,
blood spills onto the pine strewn floor.
Exhaling words. Spoken without thought,
or love, trapped in an unbreakable...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses
'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
  Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
  The Grinch...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in one fell swoop, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memo For Destroyer Poet a Linda: 3 20 P M, 23rd April 2013 Paris, France
MEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
  
If you are Red   I am Brown
If...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in one fell swoop, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Rainbows Dreaming of Gray
Scrambling tooth and nail for a patterned fate
I approached the lofty mansion of Learning's Gate.
All cued up for a slip of paper - the one...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, allegory, education, freedom, growing
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Green Bean Casseroles
Shame on those who malign the green bean casserole!
It gustatory delightfulness I shall e'er extol!
With 'fork in cheek' I'll take nonbelievers to task,
And their foibles...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, food, funny, green,
Form: Rhyme



The Twins, Part 1
In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Prose
Big Red
In an Old West Town of no repute
 Came a rider on a horse as if in hot pursuit.

  Into the saloon he ran...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in one fell swoop, fear, humor, identity,
Form: Couplet
The Rain Dancer
After the movie finished, the young couple,
kissed and said goodnight.
It looked  like rain was approaching,
as grey clouds came into sight.
He had to look after...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Cut Me Out of Your Life- For Those Tired of My Mush
You cut me out of your life
I’ll butcher you out of mine
Chop chop chop chop
There go the memories
The images
With one fell swoop
I've decapitated your smile

CHOP...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, crazy, dark, emotions, hate,
Form: Free verse
She Was a Star - I Was a Gazer
She was a star – I was a gazer 

Imagine my surprise
when the stage door opened
and in walked a goddess

Dark hair, dark eyes,
a bounce in...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, art, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Picnic a La Dr Seuss
Three fine fellows listening 
   to a concerto of cello
Dined at a picnic 
   under a weeping willow
While one turtle flew...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, celebration, fantasy, fun, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Corn Huskin' Bee Circa 1892
In November when frost was on the punkin and corn was stacked in shocks,
And the snows began to fall and geese flew southward in V-shaped...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Adam's Lament
Adam mused and stroked his beard saying, "I've really got it made!
All I do is eat and sleep and lie beneath The Tree Of Life...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, funnyme, tree, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Backstabber
The moon seems somehow hollow tonight; 
It’s light ghostly and intangible – 
It peers at me like a baleful eye, marking me out 
Spotlighting my...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, sadbeautiful, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grim Cry
Another day, owns a death.
As the Grim Reaper leaves no breath.

With one fell swoop of his sickle.
Not sealing fates, he’s only neutral.

This night he personified...

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Categories: in one fell swoop, death, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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