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Premium Member Of and About It All
*** OF AND ABOUT IT ALL ***

Life’s  so much a-coming or a-going,
With hours of waiting or flowing
From now to next
While we step about, hopefully...

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Categories: knowns, age, art, immigration, jesus,
Form: Rhyme



Bedeviled
Bedeviled by those pleading eyes
deep as the secrets they chasm
captive as the questions one must surmise 
and I, for your deliverance the ransom 

"never leave...

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Categories: knowns, for him, love, magic,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Some Thoughts On Myself
I cant seem to find the happy
antedote to cool my negative
consequences--- malignant non standards
freud pennance desires to capitulate-re
the never  know   mores ...

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Categories: knowns, angst, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
My Love
Glowing like the early morning sun 
Subtle like 12% alcoholic rum
Poco-a-poco, I didn't know what hit me
Until your love saturated me

I need you like a...

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Categories: knowns, angel, art, beautiful, bridal
Form: Blank verse
Thoughts and Scenes
It's like overhearing whispers 
Above the rustle of fallen leaves and twigs
Breaking under two pairs of feet apiece
Of bachelors and spinsters
And remembering, it's the dead...

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Categories: knowns, rap,
Form: Rhyme



Testudo Anima
I flew over a vastness of sand,
ancient ocean withdrawn,
dessicated desert,
neither eternal nor pathetic,
snow dusted, the foot of the Hindu Kush,
even now,
as we humans,
such knotted desperate...

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Categories: knowns, life, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Like Woman and Man
She was standing in the yonder- a silhoutte
ghostly yet surreal for the world that drew me in
the clouds billowed the doubts that had cast in...

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Categories: knowns, lifelove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twenty-Seven Club
Twenty-Seven Club--not open to all,
nor is joining top of most people's list.
A club of sadness and shock midst the pall
of last birthdays--twenty-eighth was just missed.

Many...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: knowns, 12th grade, analogy, celebration,
Form: Quatrain
Fangs
They inject their venom into my endless harmony
Killing me softly, I’m the walking dead, slowly towards my ceremony
You wont bury me because geographically, I’m a...

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Categories: knowns, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unravelling
known knowns
              known unknowns
        ...

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Categories: knowns, language, philosophy, poetry, relationship,
Form: Free verse
She Is the Death of You
She is heavenly beauty incarnate and all that men could dare to dream.            ...

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Categories: knowns, introspectionheart, heart,
Form: I do not know?
Der Trumpenfuehrer
Der TrumpenFuehrer! Der TrumpenFuehrer!
All hail to our glorious TrumpenFuehrer!
To the USA’s newly-crowned royalty
We pledge our complete abject loyalty,
To the great man of history, our Dear...

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Categories: knowns, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flood Gates
Vaccine perfectives
revile DNA downloafs--
catastrophic knowns...

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Categories: knowns, america, bereavement, cancer, corruption,
Form: Haiku
The Rose
the rose

The death of winter is comes nearer and nearer as the time will pass
The indication is this moving death shows through the rose, the...

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Categories: knowns, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Stories Are Not Songs
But songs are a musical story.

I know a difference
between  telling a story
and voicing these same lyrics
of anxiety and ease,
of bearing and healing injustices,
medicine for...

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Categories: knowns, appreciation, caregiving, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs