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Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...

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Categories: necessitated, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Our Place in the Sun
I was an eminent, solar physicist, like the blushing rose, craving renown.
Each butterscotch morning I drove to work, and toiled until red sundown.

The observatory was...

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Categories: necessitated, fantasy, imagery, leaving, mystery,
Form: Couplet
The All Power Is Greater
THE ALL POWER IS GREATER!

The Big Bang designed the stratosphere and troposphere.
Below both majestic presence, Earth is the topography.
Today, all God’s creature roams freely.
Human being...

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Categories: necessitated, age, appreciation, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Reckless
Reckless flirtation:
The lingering sweetness of wine hindering rationale
as lips engage greedily;
heated breath intoxicating drunken senses even further.

Desire for exploration heightens arousal for the taboo ~
revealing...

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Categories: necessitated, angst, loss, passion,
Form: Free verse
Tingling Scalp
Cold shower today - (early afternoon)
September eighth two thousand
and nineteen more challenging than June
dog days of summer test tolerance
to feel alive and bark at the...

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Categories: necessitated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Where Art Sisyphus
Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to...

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Categories: necessitated, absence, allegory, anxiety, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Generous Mother Earth
THE GENEROUS MOTHER EARTH
How generous you are the mother Earth
It is from thee that man was made
You have made man un-thirsty
And your benevolent in giving...

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Categories: necessitated, death, mother, heaven, heaven,
Form: Prose Poetry
Turquoise-- Intuitive Pause
‘TURQUOISE-- INTUITIVE PAUSE’

Mixed hues of green and blue- Peace, calm a tranquil view
Retiring from the world at times- a temporary loner paradigm
Refreshing compassion, aquamarine cool—swimming...

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Categories: necessitated, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Shelton - Washington State
this paean to the place name sans title of poem actually mooch oh years decades? ago, when my youngest sister began her decades long residence...

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Categories: necessitated, adventure, age, brother, city,
Form: Free verse
Breathing Life Into Legalese
I, henceforth, known as the respirer, do
solemnly swear hereafter, to take you in,
in sufficient quantities to ensure 
continuation of the flesh's animation.

I additionally, do accede...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: necessitated, desire, health, humor, life,
Form: Narrative
Dust To Dust
It was suggested that I plan my
Own funeral
The entities living on me
In me
Have ensured that I will not last forever

I lived quietly among my family...

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© Kj Hooten  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: necessitated, introspectionsun,
Form: Free verse
Armistice
Apart from being torn in pieces, I am together.
Aside from what is known, I am in twain.
Life is fulfilled with so much complexity; however, the...

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Categories: necessitated, character, inspiration, irony, patriotic,
Form: Verse
A Gifted Niece
What pride and joy for me to delight,
albeit vicariously upon receiving invite,
sans commencement at
Redmond Proficiency Academy
on May twenty second at six o'clock at night,
which arrangement...

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Categories: necessitated, 12th grade, america, angel,
Form: Elegy
Putin Non Gmo Gluten Free Cheese On the Ritz
Though a wimpy, tiny, and puny
(smaller than a breadbox) Ogre
whereat my portable minuscule
fingerhut size adobe abode ex
posed to Strunk and White raw
grammatical elements of style,

I...

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Categories: necessitated, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Shelton Washington State
County seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates
United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates 
above ground sans tectonic plates
Population 9,834 per 2010 census...

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Categories: necessitated, america, beautiful, blue, christmas,
Form: Free verse

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