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Premium Member The Story of Streets
I was a meticulous city planner, like future plans we make for jasmine days,
And I loved beautifying the big city, like blooming parks where nature plays.

I was ever striving to improve the metropolis, proposing plans and projects,
And meeting with public officials, as stars and moon...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, appreciation, city, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member ''Broken Wings''
Bird in a guilded cage, a broken heart, a solitary soul
Road less travelled, a soul full of longing, my heart bleeds
On a wing and a prayer, my heart is a lonely hunter, a weary soul
    
    Kiss the rose,...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, introspection,
Form: Name
Premium Member Why Don'T Sheep Shrink In the Rain
Something I've always wondered about
A subject near and dear to my heart
Why don't sheep shrink in the rain
It's puzzled me right from the start!

A theory that sometimes is bandied about
Maybe their wool is non-shrinking
Sounds quite a bit far fetched to me
Someone's jazzing me I'm thinking!

Quite...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, funny, me,
Form: Quatrain

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Premium Member Sheep Shrinking
Something I've always wondered about
A subject near and dear to my heart
Why don't sheep shrink in the rain
It's puzzled me right from the start!

A theory that sometimes is bandied about
Maybe their wool is non-shrinking
Sounds quite a bit far fetched to me
Someone's jazzing me I'm thinking!

Quite...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Time Stood Still
As the sun began to set, cursed words smeared the screen
A familiar face vanished everywhere I once loathed to see it
It was a heady rush I never dreamed of experiencing
The taste of iron on my tongue sent my head spinning

Thus began the longest night
From mid-November...

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© Derek Chos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: near and dear to my heart, introspection,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Towns Folks Are the Target
There's many subjects near and dear to my heart
But none so dear as blowing farts off a cart
On our way to the market
Towns folks are the targets
They're not even safe in the underground car park


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, corruption,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member DON'T STOPIF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE
As I was reading my poem to Deborah…a daily ritual I adore…
she stopped me saying, “Jim, I think I’ve heard this poem before.”

Words that immediately began to echo…to reverberate in my ears…
words, I dare to imagine, every poet fears.

Then I did a little research…which is...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: near and dear to my heart, poems,
Form: Rhyme
ComeHoming - Matthew 15:4
You’re an *******.
Words muttered out of context, out of line.
A rage-shadowed truth,
but with such unexpected forthrightness,
it missed its mark,
serving only to deepen our divide.
Home is no longer where happy is.
I’m not sure it ever was. 
There’s no abuse hurled or fists weaponized,
and much
— if not...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, anger, anxiety, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Once Again
Here I am again on this nights eve
Wishing so hard you were here with me
And from this moment we would never leave
But for now all I have are these words
And there it is my heart being worn on my sleeve
It's laying there trying so very...

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Categories: near and dear to my heart, angst, confusion, depression, devotion,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry