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Instruction Manual On How To Destroy a World
The Following Instructions and Detailed Manuals are Available On Planet Earth

Just add Humans.. and mix it up a bit.

Include

Religions
Famines
Climate Change

Pollution
Pandemics
and Excesses

Politics
and World Wars
Abuse the Nature
And...

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Categories: instruction manual, allegory, analogy, fun, hilarious,
Form: Free verse



Surprise Ending
There was once a man.
He’d always wanted to write,
But his biggest failing was
That he wasn’t very bright.

Whenever he started 
On a story or a plot,
Before...

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Categories: instruction manual, life, on writing and
Form: I do not know?
The School of Life
As you walk through the corridors of life, its highways and by-lanes, the 
back-alleys and well-beaten trails, through lush jungles or the arid scorching wilderness...

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Categories: instruction manual, life,
Form: Haibun
Romans 1:16
Romans 1:16

Now you might have heard of the phrase “On my one sixteen”
But you might be thinking to yourself, “What does this even mean?”
It means...

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Categories: instruction manual, devotion, jesus, joy, life,
Form: ABC
A Second Letter To John Cayton
It has came to my attention John that there was an illegal system in the area, it even wiped out my PC temporarily. I had...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instruction manual, beautiful, , atheist,
Form: Bio



Whispers of Dawn
It was a short walk I intended to take
To while away time that I did not have
For I had lots on my mind and hands...

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Categories: instruction manual, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
To Say-I Do
The other day I heard two lovers having a quarrel. They were sitting on a park bench at the arboretum near my home. I though...

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Categories: instruction manual, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Obsession
Long for tranquility, long for silence
Nothing comes to mind, that’s a taradiddle
Fireflies here and gone, here and gone
The pieces are all here and an instruction...

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Categories: instruction manual, addiction, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
My Phaser Is Unphased
Captain Quark to Mr. Sprock;
Ground control to Major Tom,
Your phaser is unphased,
Now if that doesn't phase you,
I'd be quite amazed.

You can't stun with a dead...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instruction manual, adventure, angst, funny, imagination,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Time For Christmas
Christmas isn’t what it used to be
Don’t give me gadgets
That are supposed to uncomplicate my life
If I need to read an instruction manual
I don’t need...

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Categories: instruction manual, christmas, giving, technology, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Operating Instructions
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth,
An instruction manual didn't come with it.
     Buckminster Fuller

A more significant historical fact about giving...

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Categories: instruction manual, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
It Was Just a Thought
Some people talk about me, they think I'm a little strange,
But I hope they don't get stuck thinking I'll never change,
I don't preach, judge or...

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Categories: instruction manual, society,
Form: Rhyme
What I Need
I pack the backpack
then empty it
count again what I need,
discard the unlikely,
the unnecessary accessory.

I pack the backpack
shoulder it,
adjust the straps
remember to add a useful thing,
unpack...

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Categories: instruction manual, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Talking About Poetry
Well, starting from the principle that poetry is meaning and form, not just ... When reading, for example, the instruction manual of an appliance ......

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Categories: instruction manual, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things