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Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: normal, abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted-

Deep cuts from within.
She faced bravely the many hardships of womanly life
How did she end up like this?
Severe depression after her first mental breakdown
Sorrow...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normal, absence, abuse, change, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: normal, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: normal, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: normal, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Feelings -
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Categories: normal, feelings, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Freudian Slip
A poet's soul lay in slumber,
his pen a distasteful adversary. 

A suffering soul lost in yesterday,
stumbled upon his somnolent path.
Enchanted eyes felt her nakedness 
through...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normal, angst, deep, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse
Loneliness
LONELINESS

The lonely person walks unnoticed
with unfocused eye and unsteady step,
failing to keep pace with the crowd.

An approach of reliance to everything,
like a crutch under the...

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Categories: normal, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Special Needs Hero
Young and pretty, living a normal life
Suddenly her world would never be the same
Her lovely boy born with special needs
Her daily life now the toughest...

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Categories: normal, caregiving, child, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
The Crosses In Your Eyes
You never really knew the beauty of your soul.
Of how it is possible to be both old and young
within the same body that tells about...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: normal, friendship, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do I See You
How Do I See You

People often wonder
How they are perceived
Some think they're kind and nice
When really they are filled with greed

Some are selfish and self-righteous...

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Categories: normal, angel, art, bible, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought Police
I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police

Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping...

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Categories: normal, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hard Work
I let up the shade
to watch the evening come in,  bringing bringing colors of umber and rust
The earth swallows dusk, which is fading to...

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Categories: normal, family, grief, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keep It Real:If I Could Cry
if i maurice yvonne could cry
i’d spread my tears
eternal over your 
( say it, dare to be bold)
naked body
(then she could taste your pain)

but i can’t...

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Categories: normal, depression, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: normal, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs