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The Narcissistic Neanderthal
Like an archaic humanoid dinosaur
     you  plunder through life taking no prisoners,
        ...

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Categories: inept, loss, passion, political, romance,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Hey, That's My Money
Well, I see that Congress is proposin' another trillion dollar spree!
Those inept buffoons must think money grows upon a tree!
The treasury is crankin' out bales...

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Categories: inept, funny, political, money,
Form: Rhyme
Simply Me
Inexpert at rhyme 
or singing in time
I bray like a laryngitic donkey
my artwork's inept 
I'm ham-fisted except
when doodling things that are wonky

Of style I'm bereft...

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Categories: inept, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Rather Enjoy Being Played
By different lovers I’ve been kept,
some skillful and a few inept.
I always respond, unafraid.
I rather enjoy being played.

A Spaniard picked me up one time.
His classic...

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Categories: inept, me, music, passion,
Form: Personification
My Fallen Fay
Twas’ by a waterfall quite late,
Beneath the stars, full moon awake,
I saw my tiny love, my Fay,
Upon a mossy bank, she lay;

At first glance, I...

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Categories: inept, adventure, hope, imagination, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The First Fleet
The First Fleet
by Robert (Bob) Moore

The 26th of January, is called Australia Day
that was when some 10 pound poms, decided they would stay
they had been,...

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Categories: inept, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Kreutzer Sonata
(In 1807, Beethoven wrote a piano/violin
piece with this title.  Count Leo Tolstoy
followed in 1890, with a short novel of the
same name, in which he...

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Categories: inept, relationship,
Form: Couplet
The Malkavian Part 1 Perfect Version
His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented
Drained and defeated, his family finally...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inept, confusion, corruption, dark, lonely,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Miss Liberty Weeps Tonight
The majestic Statue of Liberty has stood with dignity for many years.
She has been a Beacon of Hope for the hopeless seeking new frontiers.
She weeps...

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Categories: inept, america, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Man of the Land
One suspects a matagouri temperament
Upon first glimpsing that weathered face.
Wrinkles extending like braided rivers
Life of tussles and toils, to demonstrate.

No stranger to heat or an...

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Categories: inept, earth, environment, farm, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nude Is Crude
I think I shall never see the beauty
In absurdity of human bareness.
The aide in whom God entrusted duty
Of our design was quite inept, I’d guess.
The...

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Categories: inept, people,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member When a Hero Stumbles
Out of the ether once came a small child
who hoped to one day fly thru the air.
Diligently applying herself, learning a style,
performing higher leaps, tapping...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inept, character, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Stranger
Gifting dreams of hope to my eyes, he vanished in a flash
Carting away the treasure of sorrows, leaving mirage a trash

Thorns of grief were, in...

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Categories: inept, hope, lifeurdu,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member "precept"
“Precept”

Death’s reign is but a world of carnal minded concepts,
Within which illusions of it own harlot are kept,
As minds counterfeit the Sacred Hearts of the...

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Categories: inept, introspection, lovedeath, world, death,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Alms the Poor
Alms For The Poor

~~~~~~ The Clever Beggar ~~~~~~

The not so old beggar stood 
before me,with outstretched 
arms and a sadden stare
He ask me for sixty-five...

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Categories: inept,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things