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Premium Member Unrequited
Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lagged, angst, change, conflict, desire,
Form: Free verse



16 Bars
its a thirst thats hard to quench you did it well, 
we all draw water from the well in the cellar, to go, inter-stellar 
in...

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Categories: lagged, hip hop, image, peace,
Form: Free verse
Rhyming Wave Poem - Santa's Busy Elves
Christmas soon, very busy Elves,
the busy, busy, busy Elves,
all packing presents from the shelves,
all packing, each one tagged.

All checked, addressed then safely bagged,
then safely, safely,...

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Categories: lagged, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wedding
Even after the rice was thrown and the streets picked  cleaned

A lonely squirrel searched for his share of the bounty

The widows had put their...

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Categories: lagged, dedication, wedding, wife, love,
Form: Epic
Flying With Wax Wings
Is it time again
Is this another day again
where I sit up once more
waste my fingers to the bone
to describe my grievance with the Sorceress
named Sarah...
No...not...

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Categories: lagged, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse



Under the Mango Tree
I ask for answers to my problem around midday, carpenters nailing tables beyond their voices. Thinkers building fence of gold, wiping the devil under the...

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Categories: lagged, allusion, anger, confidence,
Form: ABC
Our Las Vegas Wedding
Our Las Vegas Wedding ( For My Love)

As our feet finally touch down on safe terra firma
Thoughts of our marriage could not be further
Jet lagged...

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Categories: lagged, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Until We Need Sacrifice No More
We will stand side by side, shore to shore.
At the ready to protect our Nations flag.
Until we need sacrifice no more.

We have been, at times,...

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Categories: lagged, dedication
Form: Villanelle
We Are All Waters
There is no ‘you’ or ‘I’
Except that you choose
to call the fat clouds a name
and make them feel like overlords upon the others.

And, there is...

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Categories: lagged, beach, together, truth, water,
Form: Concrete
Piano Chords
Preposterous melody won't exist,
Inside a piano without the chord's beat
Aubade is formed when dolefulness emits
Nails the body to where she always sits;
Ordering her fingers to...

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© Denise L.M  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lagged, how i feel, life,
Form: ABC
The Lonely Angler
He was there in the beginning
and through the eternal ending.

He'd scattered his seed 'cross numerous worlds.
They flourished.
They perished.
Flora, fauna, innumerable forms,
aeons of evolutionary warfare.
Extermination of...

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Categories: lagged, endurance, fishing, humanity, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Past Her Prime
A poetess well past her prime
Had some trouble when writing a rhyme.
Her limericks lagged
And her readership sagged
You could say it was really a …tragedy!


June 30,...

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Categories: lagged, funny, poetess,
Form: Limerick
Reach There
Reach there


I have been told win your heart
Learn to live being as simple toddler
I know I’m most keen to be that
Others are learning why stern...

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Categories: lagged, beautiful, best friend, faith,
Form: Concrete
The Cold Comes
The cold comes
   following an endless spring
   that lagged forever into summer
   where it could not keep its hold
...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lagged, beauty, change, earth, nature,
Form: List
Premium Member The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth
*Image of The Collection Plate by TPW.

The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth

My submission is of an objective accounting that had scintillated at my...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lagged, character, money, religious,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs