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Loneliness
People milling around I  do not notice them, 
my face is turned to hide my loneliness,
Am walking in my own despair
No one else intrudes...

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Categories: living dead, loneliness,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Darkness At Noon
The darkness at noon -  We’ve been led
to walk with a blossoming dread
through streets, as if we have no will,
and all the world is...

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Categories: living dead, dark,
Form: Rondeau
Behind the Smile
Just another sinking tear
In this river full of pain
Racing fast to nowhere
A world that's gone insane
Hope committed suicide
Before I had the chance
Forced to live without...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living dead, angst, betrayal, break up,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: living dead, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Slavery In Haiti
Haiti, the home of voodoo practices
Seventeenth Century Spain cedes to France
Catholic Spaniards trembled when they saw
“Dead” men revived to wander in trances

A vile poison can...

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Categories: living dead, history, socialgod, men, night,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Empty Prisons
They kill a body and to prison go
Behind the bars with time they have to pay
A life that’s deadened with a life exchanged
So law and...

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Categories: living dead, murder,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Isis
You can behead an unarmed man
You can rape a defenseless woman
You can blow up an innocent child

You can burn a book, or 1000's
Attempt to erase...

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Categories: living dead, abuse, allah, death, evil,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Madness In My Mind
Walking through the darkness
of the madness in my mind
I stumble on the pieces
of the twisted thoughts I find
I think about the way I am
and what...

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Categories: living dead, depression, introspectionheart, heart, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Many Lifetimes
Incarnations of many lifetimes
sweep before me...
Liberating my soul's chants 
As universal notes of music
Float on vibrant strands of color, 
Phasing purple, pure and light, 
In...

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Categories: living dead, allusion, assonance, birth, death,
Form: Free verse
Halloween,Halloween
I shiver at the thought of being attacked by owls,
My home infested by Carols' pesky trolls,
A fire breathing dragon,flying around in the lobby,
Or a hand...

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Categories: living dead, death, halloween, hilarious, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Titanic
Collisions avalanche, beneath the icy
Waves, of the North Atlantic.
Birthed in the cradled of Belfast,
A maritime giant, became crimsoned,
By champions shattered tradition,
An ironic omen presence to...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living dead, adventure, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monsters of Old
When monsters of old come to mind
 I remember good old Frankenstein
 And if  I should go swimming in the afternoon
I may encounter the...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living dead, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest
The Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest

Into the utter darkness of cold oceans dwelling deepest,
there is far beyond any glimmer of hope an outer limit
that...

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Categories: living dead, allegory, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Negative People Criticize
"Criticizing others is akin to criticizing God" 
"Moment we are critical of our critic we become a critic"
Quote by Author
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Words pierce the soft heart, stay...

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Categories: living dead, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Dead Love Lasts (Jack & Sally)
Nightmare Before Christmas - Jack & Sally



Darling; did I tell you?
That you make my splintering bones feel
As if they had sensitive shocked nerves still.

In the...

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© Holly King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living dead, death, love
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs