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Nine Lives
He stares at his liquor bottle, and remembers the time
he sacrificed his life to the ocean depths;
a dolphin steadily rushed him to the shallows,
then allowed...

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Categories: nine lives, dark, death, depression, imagery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Late Blooming Iris
Lately I have paused, pondering death
But I'm not fit for it's journey yet.

It's not that I loathe meeting death's kind
It will be, for me, an...

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Categories: nine lives, appreciation, blessing, butterfly, change,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - Friend With Death -
Whether you are a king or a beggar
                 ...

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Categories: nine lives, blessing, health, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Amber-Repost
i remember you;
giddy little child
with the mona-lisa smile
and sun-burnt hair
as it brushed against
your ivory skin
you were so innocent then

i never saw the sadness
that lingered in...

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Categories: nine lives, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
My Wife Howls Bad News
my wife howls bad news
                    ...

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Categories: nine lives, wife,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Old Tom
Eight times he looked death right in the eyes,

sometimes facing freezing nights when nobody heard his cries,

sometimes getting into fights with others of his kind,

left...

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Categories: nine lives, death, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Nine Dear Souls
Nine Dear Souls

Nine dear souls went to worship and pray,
They all met Jesus the very same day.
They showed God's love and embraced a stranger, 
One...

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© Ken Brower  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nine lives, bereavement,
Form: Couplet
Life Goes On
First it was seizures
And then I was blind
Sight was returned
And then I was fine.

Then came the cancer
But I was not afraid
Just a little annoying
Then life...

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Categories: nine lives, death, life, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
My Cat Sees Ghosts
You might find this tid bit
A bit hard to believe
But I swear my cat sees thing 
That I ain't never seen

I'm thinking that it's spirits
Floating...

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Categories: nine lives, animal,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Proverbial Small Town
After winning a sweepstakes, I determined to go on a lengthy trip;
And I wanted to tour the mainland, after I had disembarked the ship.

The countryside...

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Categories: nine lives, animal, fantasy, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet
The Question of Why
Feels like forever
Though she's only five
With a purpose in life
To ask the question why

A tiny Shakespeare
To be or not to be
The reason she's here 
Is...

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Categories: nine lives, children, fun, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To Earth
Raisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell...

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Categories: nine lives, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form: Narrative
Twilight
Flesh and gooey paste, stuck in the mud
Scooped up, with bare hands, they sod
Say nothing, to this or that god

Picked up like perfect bods
Split between...

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Categories: nine lives, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All the Jerseys Had a Nine On Them
Such a commotion this morning on my lawn
Way out, so I had to get closer to see what it was
At first I thought someone had...

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Categories: nine lives, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Psycho Cat - It
Psycho Cat - IT

"In my sabbatical dreams after quarantine"
Visions of life run again at full steam
A little stiff, a bit arthritic, like
"The eerie board walk...

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Categories: nine lives, cat, dream, life, memory,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs