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Premium Member Meretricious Spirit
Meretricious Spirit

This spirit is modern society’s cancer
Replete with rank, flashy vulgarities
Pervading our social fabric and soul
Unbridled, unbowed, unapologetic;
It can be a curse to mankind itself
Engulfing...

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Categories: meretricious, betrayal, emotions, feelings, hurt,
Form: Didactic



Meretricious Rose
In the night I wake to find you 
Not in bed, only a pillow, which I wetted it 
Once, with tears of wrinkled time 
Lingers...

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Categories: meretricious, daughter, family, husband, imagination,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The R-O-S-E
THE ROSE


T~hirty-two steps through the yellow-green grass led me to you.
H~aving to choose which one; my heart with no doubt chose you.
E~very rose bloomed quite...

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Categories: meretricious, love,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Prb Visual Vanities
beauty acclaimed
symbols
  of love locked out
palettes in 
   meretricious effect
dedicated
to
      the sensual
with intense
ethereal brilliance


   singleness...

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Categories: meretricious, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Dragons
Mystic sounds move slowly against  the face of the cragged purple mountains.  Towers of lost forgotten cities peek seductively through canopies of age...

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Categories: meretricious, fantasy,
Form: Haibun



Is This What We Seek
is this what we all seek
to be one with nature
well I offer you this peek
this  a contrived feature
what it shows nature meek
fauna, flora. many...

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Categories: meretricious, beauty, nature, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Embrace the Words
Since the beginning of terrestrial time
Early man began to repetitiously rhyme
He looked to the stars in the naked night
Grunting out rhythm in his figurative fright

Even...

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Categories: meretricious, adventure, celebration, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Accismus
Fake indifference
Strength from within
Let the Bullshit begin
Feigning ignorance
Pretend happy circumstance
Did you plan this? Was it your intent?

All you are is a plastic apparatus
Philosophunculist
You invent ...

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Categories: meretricious, bereavement, imagination, light, memory,
Form: Free verse
Too Much
Too            Much

Marginalized
Masochistic & Meretricious
Deaf, dumb, and desensitized
These roads are haunted
We become Superstitious
As the hills...

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Categories: meretricious, evil, holiday, satire, scary,
Form: Lyric
Voluptuous Vibrations
The melodic motions resonate, 
as the embryonic evulsions ovulate
Sensuous symphonies create, 
thrusting the White Knights to migrate
Reverberating echoes of ecstasy, 
within chimes of chemistry
Upon procreation...

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Categories: meretricious, celebration, inspirational love, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Yoga
YOGA
As old as time thou art.
A rock of ages.
Hidden, the wisdom of
The ancient art. But 
Through thee unraveled.
A pathway to purity,
This mystique, with eyes
Closed, deep...

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Categories: meretricious, peace
Form: Personification
Cornerstone
CORNERSTONE
See,
That stone,
By nadir marred,
By murk furred,
By haze cocooned,
Like a straw,
By gale of fate buffeted,
By tongues of skeptics, for 
Eras a meretricious folk christened.
By tunic of...

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Categories: meretricious, inspirational
Form: Ode
Really Living
Go back with me
into that unborn time
of listening
to beating from within,
and muffled sound beyond the wall.
Choice cannot contaminate the mind,
itself a pinnacle of knowing
then with...

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Categories: meretricious, life,
Form: Free verse
Tremendous Tidal of Torture
Trepidation although is apprehension
Rankle causes much irritation.
Enmity what a deepseated hatred
Meretricious always vulgar when stated.
Embroil involves a hostile reaction
Nemesis our inflicter of exaction.
Denial is often...

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Categories: meretricious, imagination, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Allow the Mind Not To Think Less...
A restricted freedom is not
a true freedom at all...
to allow the mind to think less;
keeping with wishes will not
endow you with the power
you pursue and...

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Categories: meretricious, socialfreedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs