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Premium Member Two Souls Lost At Sea
Who am I to take her innocence.
To caress her untouched virgin fibers.
This is not a negative connotation of lust,
it's an intimate overtone to show affection.

I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irks, angst, devotion, love,
Form: Prose



Premium Member It Must Be Hard
It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it...

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Categories: irks, hate, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Must Be Hard
It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
Hurting others but
Killing your own soul

You pretend it isn’t...

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Categories: irks, hate, integrity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Clocks
The Youth:
The clock's face smirks at me.
It mocks my glare and irks me.
I roll my eyes, it grinds its gears. 
I tap my pen, it...

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Categories: irks, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forked Tongues
When someone lies to me, sometimes it's difficult not to turn and walk away. I think they do it because of one of two reasons....

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irks, integrity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Streets of Juhu, Mumbai
On the streets of lively Mumbai,
Close to the sandy Juhu,
They serve Chaat and Masala Chai,
To make your heart go Yoohooo!!

The English, Locals and Arabs!
Jews, Africans...

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Categories: irks, arabic, beach, color, feelings,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member What If She Only Knew
And Mama pins laundered sheets on the clothesline
Raising her creamy arms with a hum,
Gentle against  tainted bricks  of our wall
Right in front of...

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Categories: irks, 5th grade, heartbreak, memory,
Form: Free verse
Just Relax
When the day is done
And you are at ease
Just recharge your mind 
Do as you please
Just relax
Your heart is pounding
From a fast paced track
Slow the...

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Categories: irks, dedication, endurance, health, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soup Mail
What can I say
I don't receive it every day 
Though I never check it 
But once a year 

So how would I know 
 If...

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Categories: irks, imagination, satire,
Form: Free verse
My Pirates Plea For Sincerity
Maties I will say Ahoy
And tell you things that just annoy
The wind out of all my sails
As I state a little tale
Of something that irks...

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Categories: irks, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
How To Kill a Printer
Throw it over the second floor
Or better yet bathe it
Since it never seem to.
Kicking doesn’t help
Or talking either
Everybody just thinks me crazy.

I’ve thought of starving...

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Categories: irks, funny,
Form: Free verse
Incorrigible Sinner
His name fills us with fright;
We won't forget his crime;
We can't forgive him this time;
We distrust him day and night.

We view him with disgust
We hold...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irks, crazy, humor, insect, murder,
Form: Verse
Africa
The black panther; no spots for fear,
Accustomed by the frails of the forests, 
To the long stretch of the Nile, 
Such beauty, I marvel at....

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Categories: irks, africa, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xx
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XX

IF you pull a long-haughty face
Some would not your game play
What irks you most is not their...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irks, anxiety, art, courage, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Theories Are Not Facts
The Big Bang Theory and others devised.
Professors armed with latest editions.
Soon, teach as facts; oh, faith of youth revised.
Inspired, common suppositions.
Biblical creation too soon capsized.
Unaware,...

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Categories: irks, angst, faith, religion, science,
Form: Ottava rima

Book: Shattered Sighs