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Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in...

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Categories: instructed, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Poet Plus Teacher- PS
Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I...

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Categories: instructed, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blessed By God
My dearly beloved Sister in the Lord,
You surely are a great blessing to me and to others...
May this poem of tribute to and for you...

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Categories: instructed, appreciation, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

                ...

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Categories: instructed, friendship,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Mr James
His wise council and kind patience bolstered my resolve
to overcome my youthful woes and nightmarish troubles solve.
His humanity may have saved my life. His memory...

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Categories: instructed, education, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Prose



Geneva Has Evolved
"Fragments and crumbs of life, 
                   ...

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Categories: instructed, 3rd grade, child, dad,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Warrior Horse of the Saviour-King
Awesomely white, amazingly glorious
Bible Revelation Horse* --- victorious…

   Carrying CHRIST from heaven celestial
   Driven for tasks, divinely essential…

   ...

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Categories: instructed, appreciation, christian, faith, god,
Form: Abecedarian
Coach Dad--Collaboration With Tim Smith
Coach Dad

It is a magic time when a child ventures
Into the world, spreading wings,
Beginning the oft painful process
of moving from the nest to the sky.

And...

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Categories: instructed, baseball, children, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Invention of Zero
Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no...

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Categories: instructed, father, future, home, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cerise Celeste
Do i see pictorial echo's of love 

in hues of pink? upon a heavenly ceiling,

 dramatic as the verse instructed from 

an eternity of muse's,...

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Categories: instructed, imagination
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry and Death by yolanda nicholsen
She'd entered my dwelling, my stalker a complete fatal attraction, mimicking my every move, simply distraught I was ,who could this intruder be, ripping pages...

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Categories: instructed, beautiful, i am, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Her Hidden Gem
Mama sang while cleaning the house
Friends noticed her melodic voice
Outside, she hid behind her spouse
When he played the sax, she’d rejoice

The church choir was seeking...

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Categories: instructed, mother, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Sat Beneath a Veteran Oak
I sat beneath a Veteran-oak,
In awe of His strength—
Here was a solid spirit!
Sympathy you get from Willow,
But stiff upper-lip from old soldiers,
With forged bark —
His...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instructed, allegory, allusion, father, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am a Waiter
I Am A Waiter

     “I am a waiter,” the man said to me,
     “ I wait in...

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Categories: instructed, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Sacred Alter
“Teach me to pray,” I ask the Father.
He lovingly said, “Kneel down at my sacred alter”.
Looking around I could not see; where could this sacred...

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Categories: instructed, dedication, devotion, faith, me,
Form: Rhyme

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