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Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lengths, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lengths, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Fragile Is Life
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Categories: lengths, death, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
The 50's
There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw...

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Categories: lengths, remember, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: lengths, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Sari Finesse
Chandelier earrings dangling
Golden bangles jingling
Thick long raven hair
Twisted and pinned in swirls
With ornate gold embellishment
Luxuriously wrapped
In silk and brocade
Lavish lengths 
Of rich flamboyant colors
Parading effortlessly
Their...

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Categories: lengths, beautiful, color, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M a Simple Sinner
I’m a simple sinner
Saved by God’s grace
I’m not always a winner
In the righteousness race

I’m a simple sinner
Who reaches toward the light
More like a beginner
Than one...

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Categories: lengths, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Windswept Through the Eyes of Poets
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly 
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... 
it all fades, except love....

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lengths, poets, wind,
Form: Free verse
Dawning Desires - Repost
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Whispering apricot beams shine upon frilly sheers,
lazy shadows dance in daffodil dawn colors,
pirouettes of pleasured moments,
silently flowing on smooth brush stroke walls

You breathe, softly, the...

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Categories: lengths, morning, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Portal - part 2
NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense

As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lengths, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Vietnam War
The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed

This...

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Categories: lengths, death, history, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Conflicted Love
My mind is burning, blazing, turning
With doubts and irrational drivels
My heart is livid and hardened
For it freezes in the potentials of disappointment
Of failure, downfall, and...

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Categories: lengths, anxiety, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Getting Ready For Winter
Sawing logs, one after another
Into two feet lengths
Just for the specific purpose
Of standing them up on the ground
Awaiting the iron axe
That will create a comforting
Roaring...

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Categories: lengths, autumn, blessing, fruit, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Categories: lengths, adventure, dedication, education, children,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sweats and Sweets
Time to head off to the gym, for my daily work out session
Tummy bulging, thighs are wobbling, my body is in regression
Once I was toned...

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Categories: lengths, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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