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Premium Member My Own Poetic License
Sometimes when I write, I tend to stretch the truth.
Same as when I gossip; I've done that since my youth.
It's not so much deliberate, but...

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Categories: license, humorous, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: license, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Period of Life
Orange is more appreciated by the tongue that tastes lime
to do so, if not now, when would be the time?

Senses and instincts are the same...

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Categories: license, adventure, life, youth, drug,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Country 'Tis of Thee
You, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...

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Categories: license, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jack
I saw him on the highway
Thought he was insane
Standing with his thumb out 
In the pouring rain
I don't usually stop for hitchhikers
But something said I...

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Categories: license, faith, life, mystery, life,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Phobia
No flame within! 
      do I hold for you
no delightful delicacy
      shall I put to...

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Categories: license, angst, light, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gravedigger
He never did see a face though only a board width away,
yet remembers feeling privileged, spending those last few moments
while trying so hard to find...

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Categories: license, pride,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Things I Don'T Understand
There are things I don't understand
And would really like to know
Such as why they call it rush hour
And you move so freakin' slow

How come you...

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Categories: license, confusion, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member All That I Am
You know me as a poet, and writer of poems sad,
I take poetic license, violating rules and conventions;
telling a story using figurative language, I share,
...

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Categories: license, art, books, life, poetry,
Form: Verse
Pay No Attention To the Man Behind the Curtain
Blissfully ignorant and supine,
Lost in the economy line,
voters don’t have a clue
that liberty is through.
Apathy dictates all else is fine.
People keep telling me how foolish...

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Categories: license, political, people, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Courtship
He worked at the local newspaper office.
I worked for his employer’s wife as a mother’s helper.
He had served his apprenticeship 
and was now a full...

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Categories: license, lovetime, me, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rarely Met a Better Man
We communicate without language,
Gestures,symbols,motions of a hand.
He understands my language. 
I struggle with his.
But somehow we make it work.
We've lived together 14 years now,
Never thought...

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Categories: license, friendshiphair,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harvest Inferno
Take me to the tombstone 
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf...

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Categories: license, birthday, creation,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Reflections On My Seventieth Birthday
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Categories: license, birthday, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Justice
I landed in Poet's Court
Caught me speeding in my Sonnet
They judged it a rhyme crime
According to the officer's pentometer
I was doing 50 in a 25...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: license, fun, humor, judgement, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs