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Nicola Byrne
Nicola Byrne

Now know that her name is Nicola Byrne
Writes great poems with a smooth iron
And I also have heard some poets say
She recently had another...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ironical, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet



Time -Part 1-
Tragedy is never a sentiment for Time
For it is a phenomenon she merely sees
She pours forth abundance for all that behold her
Even for those of...

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Categories: ironical, abuse, allegory, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
Lemmings To a Cliff
Instincts stored from antiquity
Leather bound books; library in the mind
Beautiful tragic collections and revisions
The conundrum of neurology; conflict presides

Endowed with supreme cognition
Cursed, condemned by the...

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Categories: ironical, allegory, analogy, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Brother-In-Law
MY BROTHER IN LAW

          My brother-in-law
          ...

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Categories: ironical, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wishing For 1984
Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility,...

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Categories: ironical, dedication,
Form: Haibun



Sing a Song of Tajmahal
Sing a song of Taj Mahal
A landmark of lovers
And a lover's edifice
With medieval bowers
Tis a mecca for tourists
Tis sensational, tis exceptional, 
tis truly a touristy...

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Categories: ironical, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yesterday
Twenty Four Yesterdays


All twenty-four black candles burned
Memories scorched, ashes yearned
Lovers torched by floating nightmares
Secrets buried in tomorrows lyrics

I wished for that sweet delectable kiss
Of love...

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Categories: ironical, art, death, depression, identity,
Form: Free verse
2 Sides of Life
Even if the clouds give you  darkness 
Always  know  that the sun shines above 
Giving hope and desire to live
Don't let those...

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© Enock Sang  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ironical, deep, inspiration, journey, life,
Form: Lyric
Animosity Vessel
ANIMOSITY VESSEL :

Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish...

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Categories: ironical, abuse, evil,
Form: Lyric
Sojouner of Truth
Enjoyers of the traveling days, all should be so lucky. My companion and I were stranded at a train station. A thunderstorm so bright with...

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Categories: ironical, desire, journey, love, ,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mystic Parable
Stories dared not whispered, legend of great thinker. 
Artificially created Atlantis, maze search for law-giver. 

Hushed lips speak no evil, silly little monkey cliche. 
Privy...

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Categories: ironical, faith, history, imagination, mystery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Just One More Day
Just One More Day

There was once a man, for whom I held an adoration so sincere
He was my instructor, the one who brought out my...

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Categories: ironical, death, death of a
Form: Couplet
Silent Marked Warrior
Ironical pain
By paths filled with crimson tears;
May it be finished?
Alive with all hope heartfelt,
Within now confused visions...

Lost, broken belief;
Remorseful mists messaging;
Aching unbelieved,
Scarred warrior wanders through...

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Categories: ironical, dark, irony, light, lost,
Form: Tanka
Destiny - Infinity
There comes a time of no more morrows,
of no more smiles, and no more sorrows.
A time when time itself will be no more!
When the earthly...

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Categories: ironical, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between Ariel and Me
I often think of myself as being a mermaid
For I am indeed none other than love's maid
I guess my name should have been Ariel
Of all...

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Categories: ironical, creation, dark, lost love,
Form: Quatern

Book: Shattered Sighs