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Premium Member Escalating the Muse
"Escalating the Muse"



Written on the body
passive complacence
stretches sharp ink 
etched pain in the soul
then real beauty 
from the 
Book of Truth, 

a page moored
in transparent...

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Categories: laymen, muse, truth, writing,
Form: Free verse



Introspectively
Understanding myself, and towards developing  introvertedly 
The parameters of today, yet most lay dormant inside of me
Questioning the how, as in such, the extended...

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Categories: laymen, depression, faith, fear, feelings,
Form: Acrostic
Scarecrows
Innocent child,
wake up from your rainbow colored dreams,
listen to the red feathered rooster,
it crows the early dawn's burden,
hang on me,
dance along with the swaying golden...

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Categories: laymen, betrayal,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Oracle At Tibetan Stok Monastery-W
“Patients, carefully wash your hands and mouth
As the spirits are offended by our smells
And get yourself clean of the defilements”
Thus Matho announced the arrival of...

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Categories: laymen, religion,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Limericks of Physics - 1
To love Physics one just has to care
For the universe heart described there, 
Relativity's Laws
Are much like Santa Claus, 
Einstein's Tensors just floating on air.

Brian...

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Categories: laymen, science, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxiv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen* – XXIV-Part One

The Uhr-Father of the embodiment of spiritual power since the Middle Ages must certainly have been the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laymen, allegory, heaven, humanity, leadership,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Notes On Tears of Jerusalem
Notes:

I was listening to some music, by a famous singer, about this story, can any guess the song? 


I find it interesting in light of...

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Categories: laymen, history,
Form: Light Verse
Magicless
It's early November '91, 
and I quite can't remember, 
ever, 
feeling this humbled, seeing
Magic stumble, 
off his shiny crown, 
and the little boy
Who once glared...

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Categories: laymen, basketball, celebrity, hero, how
Form: Free verse
Back With Poetry Vengeance
Back with poetry vengeance,
Don’t fear this, Transcendence 
Or from the Abyss?
Elohim’s Prince,
Or a Demonic Word Smith with written myths? 
These flames destroy man’s deceitful tactics...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laymen, allegory, meaningful, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Epic
I Sat Beside a Dead Fox
river. gold
liquidcopper sheen & skypulp
mashed upon fatrocked banks 
refracted beams;
reflections.
The kid squeal.
The rowers chirp "hello"
[multiple oar-chasm] we bridge it
with a languid arm-sigh tooing, no fro....

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Categories: laymen, animals, family, father, happiness,
Form: I do not know?
Asides Within a Last Breath
Three lying deacons 
swim in a handbag -
and a lone, celibate pastor 
paces longingly bemused.
Michael, the Arc Angel, 
poses silently,
in dusty Gabbana drag,
cursing the lipstick-painted...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laymen, introspection
Form: Free verse
Quack's Progress
Arriving from unknown somewhere
He set up clinic in the market square
Declared he could cure any disease
Using herbal drugs of plants and trees
Townsfolk being credulous
Soon to...

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Categories: laymen, imagination, inspirational, introspection, drug,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Ode To 9/11
This day shall be in remembrance of all the lost souls.
Each one remembered proudly on every flag pole.

This day shall be in remembrance to the...

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Categories: laymen, dedication, devotion, education, faith,
Form: Ode
True Brotherhood
The helmsman sings a merry song:
Haec est vera fraternas,
and downs a cup of something strong,
Hick, vera, hick, hick, fraternas.

The sailors dance a lusty jig,
forsaking sails,...

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Categories: laymen, autumn, brother, death, song,
Form: Ballad
The Poetic Reedemer
THE POETIC REEDEMER…

To my fellow colleagues.
Devout, aspiring.
With wise words of great magnitude
Sent forth, I speak my mind
I built barricades, lest you leave this behind

The masses...

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Categories: laymen, devotion, leadership, poets, tribute,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs