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Premium Member Words With a Venomous Sting
It was not my intention to ever post in PS again
but through an open window I've caught a glimpse
and smell of what's been dumped into...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mendacious, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



The Withdrawing Room
Unrhymed tercets

The Withdrawing Room

Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 


Daunting...

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Categories: mendacious, abortion, bereavement, courage, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Unfulfilling Love
Dormant desires within derelict deserts’
Winds whispering of your selective stealth
Frozen fingers that chill the empty spaces
Longing for you a pacifier of thickened thorns
Discombobulation drives the...

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Categories: mendacious, conflict, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Temple of the Gods-Palindrome
Temple of the Gods


Within the realities, unseen deified admits a parallel preen
A shielded smokescreen for their succus is made unclean
In the matriarchal machine a throne...

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Categories: mendacious, evil, power, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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Categories: mendacious, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Forked Tongues
When someone lies to me, sometimes it's difficult not to turn and walk away. I think they do it because of one of two reasons....

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mendacious, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Withdrawing Room
Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 


Daunting without exit the...

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Categories: mendacious, abortion, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Unmarked Grave - Still Alive
Last flickers of a dying flame still burn 
I strain to see every bitter remembrance     
lain before my feet     
pain stained...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mendacious, books, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Class Act
To find a class act
  on the world stage
A tall task in our day and age

Some leaders profess sincerity
  to boost their popularity
Others...

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Categories: mendacious, appreciation, character, leadership,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Poetry and Freedom
Poetry and Freedom

        A poet is still free to write about what they choose.
    ...

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Categories: mendacious, courage, freedom, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival...

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Categories: mendacious, caregiving, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Family Therapy
Feminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.

A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most...

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Categories: mendacious, addiction, endurance, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member My White House Interview
I was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it...

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Categories: mendacious, caregiving, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Jesus On Trial Part I
The law teachers, and the elders, arrested Jesus.
They went to see the high priest whose name was Caiaphas.
Peter followed into the courtyard at a distance.
The...

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Categories: mendacious, religion, death, son, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Variations On a Cultural Theme
It was sometime back in the 70's,
my later 20's,
I woke up one morning to realize
EgoSelf as an often dissonant nest 
of natural systemic TaoEarth,
a mindbody...

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Categories: mendacious, beauty, earth day, light,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things