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Premium Member Poetic Licence
I’ve renewed my poetic licence
Just hope it won’t ever expire

Poetry has become a bit of an addiction
My words can be fact or they could be...

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Categories: licence, humorous, me, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Poetic Licence
Poetic Licence

I've been granted my Poetic Licence,
Which allows me to write as I find.
Exaggeration here, embellishment there,
A free spirited open mind.

With vivid inspired imagination,
I see...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: licence, adventure, animal, imagination, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...

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Categories: licence, lost love, lust, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finding Laughter In Lockdown
I can’t see my dentist and I’ve got dire halitosis,
with distancing I hope that nobody will notice!

When we're outdoors we must keep 2 meters apart,
this...

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Categories: licence, humorous, life,
Form: Couplet
Dangerous Green
The town that I was born in was a small and ‘one horse’ place,
where no one held a secret and we knew each other’s face.
Nothing...

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Categories: licence, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Shadow Play
Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical...

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Categories: licence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ouch - Little White Lies
My hubby just fell out of bed
He banged his elbow and his head
Now I can hear groaning
Expletives and moaning
I’m certain that he isn’t dead!

Only the...

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Categories: licence, humorous, hurt, sleep,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Waste of Space
I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden...

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Categories: licence, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Beryl the Peril
My auntie her first name is Beryl
Put other road users in peril
She mounted the sidewalk
The pedestrians squawk
and report her to Sherriff Merrill

The Sherriff puts her...

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Categories: licence, car, scary,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Chimera World
Misleading, minacious maze now thwarted,
eschews stealth as sandal-clad steps resound.
Determined and dour, destiny draws near;
completing this quest: forever renowned.

Stygian sky grants a much-welcomed boon:
conformable clouds...

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Categories: licence, angel, fantasy, hero, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bad Mouth Brigade
A vindictive old crone called Skyla
Her comments could not be more vile’a
She will give folk such flack
Stabbing them in the back
Well 'madam' I don’t like...

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Categories: licence, bullying, poetry, words,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Unhappy Valentine's Day
This Valentine’s, cupid may fail
No flowers or cards in the mail
Our postie called Mike
Joined colleagues on strike 
Their actions are beyond the pale!

Our postal workers...

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Categories: licence, sad love, valentines day,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ggrrrrr the Spider Has Returned
I prepare myself for a deep relaxing bath
but that dratted spider was out to have a laugh

As I pour scented bubble bath into the water
Spidey...

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Categories: licence, home, humorous, insect,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sensational Spring
Spring's arrived at last, she wears her green dress
as I go rambling on lush verdant hills
This season's so special I will confess
I pick some beautiful...

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Categories: licence, spring,
Form: Ottava rima
Car Court
CAR   COURT


Enter,   the older   heavyweight  steel  giant,
The bailiff,  a   1954 Hudson,  reads unhesitant...

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Categories: licence, allegorycar, car, drug,
Form: Verse

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