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Premium Member Thinking About Angels
...Thinking About Angels

Here I am thinking 
about angels, guardians
in the sky.

Funny thing: grief.
Well maybe ‘funny’
is the wrong word.

 ‘Volcanic’
‘Annihilating’
‘Illusionary’

‘Pul......

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Categories: kicker, death,
Form: Free verse
Miss So and So
...

She’s so neg neurodegenerative,
so womb retro Neanderthal

Her backward moving bellow decisions
aren’t thoroughly modern mellow

Got lip kicker high heels
that testosterone neuter k......

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Categories: kicker, dark, image, slam, word
Form: Burlesque
Source of Hate
...Hate,
You came to me
When I was a child

I don’t want you to
Be near me
Ever again


It was during WW2
Japan ruled
Koreans obeyed

One day 
Mother came home
With tears in her eyes
Her......

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Categories: kicker, evil, forgiveness, mother,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Rugby Grass Roots
...The grandstand is gelid by a sharp wintry breeze
Carried off from the field are the last of dead leaves
The shrill of the whistle, muffled calls from the crowd
From the tunnel stampede, metal stud......

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© Marco Bing  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kicker, friendship, games, sports, spring,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Happy Ever After
...Does happily ever after really exist?
Is it a cruel joke with a sardonic twist?
When the girl gets the boy, or boy the girl,
Life seems so good, a love affair in a whirl;
But the fairy princess d......

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Categories: kicker, allusion, christian, dark, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Conversation Between the Kicker and the Coach
...They walk alone together down the bright white line, their
Voices garble against the humming hordes as the
Tautness of the moment lays out like lacquer in the dustlight
Of our dreams, life feeding......

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Categories: kicker, sports
Form: Free verse



A Jim-Jam Mickey-Mouse Poem
...A Jim-Jam Mickey-Mouse Poem

I think that you might never see
A poem as weird as this might be
For I’ll use luscious words
That otherwise might sound absurd
This poem may turn out silly-sally
Or even......

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Categories: kicker, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member High Noon At Karnak
...Tex’s shadow defines him—cut-out 
from the heat haze of Karnak’s quartz, 
a scintillating contrast to Egypt’s questing sun.
He slouches among the other black castings of 
denser composition mottl......

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Categories: kicker, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prufrock's Eternal Footman
...I think this Footman likes to snicker,
and the human situation is the kicker,
when one becomes sicker and sicker,
and it’s one’s time to die and cry for one’s soul.

Prufrock’s point is well-tak......

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Categories: kicker, allegory, death, emotions, evil,
Form: Free verse
Endaround
...EndAround


If the endaround gets in the open and the balltosser does not get killed the 
sideline washer will come into the game. Then the seventeen minutes will last 
longer then ever and seem......

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Categories: kicker, imagination, science fiction, sports,
Form: Free verse
The Last One Picked
...My palms would sweat. I’d get physically sick.
Why was I always the last one they’d pick?
There were times I would not be selected at all,
for a physical game, I was pretty darn small.

I watche......

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© Kevin Pace  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kicker, inspirational, sports, upliftingdad, god,
Form: Rhyme
Envision Your Route 1
...rondeau

Envision your route, it's quicker.
Like your crowds thinner or thicker?
Traffic can ruin a trip, no fun;
my choice - less-traveled paths, bar none.
country bumpkin / city slicker? 

......

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Categories: kicker, 11th grade, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Rondeau
Chicago Bank Robber In a Wheel Chair
...Saw it online-
Chicago headline, it read...
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"FBI says bank robber called the cops to give confession and rolling l......

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Categories: kicker, adventure, internet, society,
Form: Prose
My Lovely Children All Grown Now
...My Lovely Children – All Grown Now

It was one cold snowy morning, that dawn of 1970,
I awoke to many strange feeling, deep inside of me.
Quietly I sat, at my bedside in an eerie calm,
Not sure ......

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Categories: kicker, appreciation, best friend, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Mother and Daughter Drinking the Water
...http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx

?My greatest, favorite poem by far and yet
For foolish politicians who want to fret.

Mother and Daughter Drinking the Wat......

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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things