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Ode To the End of War
Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No...

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Categories: malcontents, friendship, war,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Pandemonium
Panicked people pour into the streets pushing past each other; they’re powerless
Against the awful atrocity unleashed by unknown armed assailants.
Normalcy has fled; so many in...

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Categories: malcontents, conflict, confusion,
Form: Acrostic
Opening the Vein
Right now
     I have words 
flowing from my veins,
but what if it stops?
That can never happen
   all I have...

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Categories: malcontents, angst, death, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gorbals
The stench of urban decay winds thick 
and rank through squalid, narrow
streets christened with booze and urine,
permeating decades of neglect.

A drunken derelict slurs enthusiastic 
amens...

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Categories: malcontents, people, places, travel, urban,
Form: Free verse
Give Peace a Chance Part 1
Like the twelfth
juror in the play
I must say I am not
convinced
For I know a recipe
for trouble 
I have seen the
double standards
And I do not approve
this...

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Categories: malcontents, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Number 42
I am reminded of his legacy,
    Through the media events.
        Where he opened doors
 ...

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Categories: malcontents, memorial,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Dream Sanctuaries
I dream into my Ta(0)ist
not-Universal Yang equals
not-Unitarian Yin
Sanctuary,
expecting to be greeted
by visions
of familiar spiritual apartheid.

But I am not.
Instead,
communion in this Sanctuary
looks and resounds,
feels and resonates
with...

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Categories: malcontents, dream, earth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
Little Red Riding Hood's Final Stroll
Twas the darkest of nights in the prarie woodland
Little Red Riding Hood walked the raven strand

A steamy fog cut through the bleary bog
The rancid odor...

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Categories: malcontents, adventure, fantasyred, red,
Form: Rhyme
Green Bubbles
We are working with our foreign partners in Europe
to bankrupt all western nations.
The less we have, the less we need is the motto.
The President is...

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Categories: malcontents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Letter From Vietnam
A quivering shadow shrouding a clouded pane
Shared pain scribbled in the doleful rain
Hollow words that broker heartache and disdain
A sorrowful whistle emanating from a distant...

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Categories: malcontents, war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Peace
46.
             At Peace

I care not a fig for untold riches
Or the tainted pearls...

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Categories: malcontents, pain, peace, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brace For Impact
*Image of A Fallen Smirk by DG.

Brace For Impact

Pillar of society, creme de la creme, important person,
   one to be reckoned by indeed.
One...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: malcontents, character, fate, identity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Taught I Taw a Puddycat
Expiry date               
        ...

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Categories: malcontents, death, imagination, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Nightmare
The other night I dreamed of spiraling downward,
But the earth delayed rising up to receive me.
I watched my unending fall into masses of despair
Falling rapidly,...

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Categories: malcontents, america, anxiety, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Welcome To Gaydom
There are those who would wish me
To be closeted for life. 
Those who's wish I never could fulfill.
Now, you know what it is I speak...

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© Jan Backes  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: malcontents, education, passion, family, family,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things