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Forgotten Grave
The name no longer legible,
Eroded, lichen covered slate,
Dead flowers in a broken pot:
Who rests in this neglected state?

For Susan’s Forgotten contest...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: legible, death,
Form: Rhyme



A Feared Justice
A lot of body shifts by an inch,
While vengeful killer teeth they clench:
A prosecutor is addressing The Bench,
Concerning dastardly murder of a wench
By a whisky-soaked...

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Categories: legible, bullying, corruption, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
A Freak of Literature
A freak of literature 
Designed by those mad poets 
But escaped the lab: 
the English classroom,
Its me G the hybrid word:
With added punctuation and 
bold...

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Categories: legible, deep, image, imagery, imagination,
Form: Verse
Take a Deep Breath
I take a deep breath, then I breath out...
I breath doubts, but I guess I breath now
But my breathe shall allow me tear this industry...

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Categories: legible, analogy, cool, feelings, hip
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tresure Chest
Sitting at the very top of my closet,
a small cedar chest, with treasures I did deposit. 
It was Christmas gift my sweet cousin gave,
for years...

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Categories: legible, memory, , western,
Form: Rhyme



My Pain, and Pains
With a Heart soaked in Pain,
I bowed and removed my Hat,
Tears, tickling my cheek,
Like Matilda i have dragged my Pain here.

An Encomium i have come...

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Categories: legible, pain, prayer,
Form: Personification
Big Eye Wonderment
An iridescent celestial being 
Anarchic yet effervescent adolescent 
Frolicking freely in the omnipresent forest, 
Like a breeze through the leaves. 
Barefoot & star gazing —...

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Categories: legible, appreciation, environment, fairy, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Bon Voyage
tattered, yellow napkin
softly settles into the murky lake
as it absorbs it's last spill
our names in gold, still legible

this ring, never fit, seldom worn
"I love you"...

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Categories: legible, angst, autumn, death, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Carolingian Minuscule
Circa Holy Roman Empire
between ninth
and thirteenth century
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed
Benedictine monks
Of Corbie Abbey
devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee

vis a...

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Categories: legible, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Signature
First letters are undulating, bouncy and loopy
Rest are sort of pretty sloppy and crunched together
With a load of smooth diagonal lines that connect all the...

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Categories: legible, art, funny, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Luna
Since it was Sunday in late December
the sun perched softly behind a dark
swirl - and the distant dust
turned the last ray from red to pink
well...

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© Alan Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: legible, dream, happiness, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Mistake
I was there
Extant at the screen of life as the third parties
A warmth which subsequently appeared capricious
A love that never thought to be seek

At once...

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Categories: legible, heart, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
A Swan Song
A poets quill lies on his desk
Atop a sheet of coffee-stained
Paper containing stylish script-
An Edwardian handwriting.
The quills point appeared to be dry
For sometime, likewise the...

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Categories: legible, death, loss
Form: Verse
Cleveland England - a Tribute
They will read my poem and wonder
"Who is this?" But I knew you better
Than any who will search and blunder
Harnessed to their finite, mortal fetter
You...

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Categories: legible, death, loss, philosophylove,
Form: Verse
How Can We Define?
What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature...

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Categories: legible, adventure, devotion, education, faith,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things