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A Nonfiction, For Class
My mind wonders back to when I was younger. Seven I think. My mom had run out of beer.
This was a time when she was...

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Categories: nonfiction, mothermom, dad, me, dad,
Form: Bio



My Novel Back Cover
To the people looking at this book
I say go ahead, Open it, Take a look
It may be the very thing you sought
I believe you'll be...

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© Jay Moore  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonfiction, success, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond the Leash
The world seems to be quiet and out of its mind
Not to mention the words that aren’t kind
Messages that won’t complete the good thought
Bringing cold...

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Categories: nonfiction, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who I Am
by Spencer Dillenbeck, my son, age 19:

A chunk of clay settling into its mold
A painting yet to dry
A matching hand I cannot hold
A block of...

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Categories: nonfiction, culture, identity,
Form: Free verse
Gravity
Gravity
Real force spinning
A weight on my knees
Veritable science nonfiction
In a moment the apple fell, Newton noticed
Trusted source of orbiting satellite's permanence
Youth's nemesis...

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Categories: nonfiction, age, science,
Form: Acrostic



Food For Thought
Here I go again, Another GOD send
                  ...

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Categories: nonfiction, addiction, anxiety, beautiful, bible,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Sharp Tooth of Truth
I stood atop of my pointed view and felt the sharp tooth of truth.
How elegantly we lived the lie,  a fictional legend always on...

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Categories: nonfiction, courage, destiny, inspirational, muse,
Form: Free verse
You Don'T Know Me
There's more to me than the color of my eyes
               ...

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Categories: nonfiction, daughter, family, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member My Library
My simple library contains no fancy morocco-bound tomes,
Like those found in majestic castles and rich folks' homes.
But the books on its shelves that I truly...

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Categories: nonfiction, on writing and wordsme,
Form: Rhyme
Restless Nights
As the sun descends

For its evening rest

My eyes refuse to comply

They constantly search for the light

Keeping me awake deep into the night

Poems of nonfiction and...

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© Jorge Toro  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonfiction, adventure, allegory, faith, family,
Form: Light Verse
A Publishing Date
Let me drape upon you a written robe, 
beautifully indexed on your tablet. 
My! you look divine, 
off we go to dine on literary flavours...

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Categories: nonfiction, desire, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Perfect Motion Picture of Johnathon and Josie
He said, “I love you”-
          she said, “I need you"
   As he was glaring...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonfiction, beauty, love, passion,
Form: Couplet
Anthony Meets My True God
You 
will find
 your 
next victim.
You 
will be
 sexually attracted
to her.
At First:
But you 
will soon 
get bored.
Then 
you will play 
the game
of tearing 
her apart.
Because...

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Categories: nonfiction, betrayal, crazy, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Interpretation
I create - my speaker creates tone
Choosing words selectively - having diction
Writing with an implied attitude
The subject it is created
Whether it be fiction or nonfiction
I...

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© Stacey Law  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonfiction, poetry, senses, voice, writing,
Form: Light Verse
To Deep I Know
(true feelings.contest poem)
  
My writings poems will take you in journey
To feel all the truth of me of what everything that had happened.

I did...

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Categories: nonfiction, feelings, truth,
Form: Free verse

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