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Best On The Cutting Edge Poems

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Premium Member Type, Cast
He crafted word ...
all plucked delicately
like the petals pulled for a vinok
precious and pink and pulpy
wove them, giv'n a similar grace
not for vanity, mind you...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, analogy, art, creation, introspection,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Journey
~ JOURNEY to the center of me!~

Yield upon this blissful moment!
In, a cutting-edge welcoming,
This minute can only maintain-

Yesterday’s journey~ Desire~

The world inside my head, can...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, adventure, sweet, journey, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edger All Poe
Our dark founding father, of American literature,
A sinister beacon of darkness, lighting the way
Into the darkened abyss of mankind’s soul.
Within the galleria of madness, he...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the cutting edge, character, dark, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Just Getting Started
Born in Madrid, in fifty nine,
A military Kid, 3rd of 7 in the assembly line;
They named me Michael, but I answer to Wedge,
A Master Sergeant’s...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, age, career, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Killing of One Hundred and Fifty Million Years
another typical day, with feet on the ground
  ordering the hedge to meet my image of trim
  many measured bits fall before the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the cutting edge, bird, child, death, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Beautiful People
For the Haven’s advancement,
the Elite may extend a courteous backhand,
or a fist wrapped with opinion
that some may mistake for abuse.

Dante’s girl fell from her steeple
head...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, abuse, bullying, culture, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Down Town Auckland On a Bench With a Habit and a Pen
I am the environmentalist in love with wine,
my shoulders carry and reside in the cutting edge side of life,
the establishment craves to be the human...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, angst, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shark Soup
Tim had all the necessary ingredients right next to his ancient burner


Shark teeth dangling from a sunken necklace at the cutting edge but

The amulet had...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The White Tomb Trembles
* For J.K. Rowling *

                 ~ 

now, deliberate your...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, evil, fantasy, magic,
Form: Epic
Elites Who Are Not Elite
We see them sitting in towers
carved from ‘learned’ ivory,
insulated by their tenure
from the world of reality,
poisoning their students minds,
putting bad ideas in their heads,
the kind...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, corruption, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever

I have used words and phrases from the Beatles song
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ in order to create the
Desired effect in this poem.

How beautiful it...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chimed Upper Room
*Image of Hallmark Channel by Giphy.

Chimed Upper Room

Chimed new day shines...eagerly corrects an upper room looks,
An attic improving rapidly...promotes roams of diligence,
Lacks found bordered leathered...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the cutting edge, happy, memory, sad,
Form: Sijo
All That Light
I awoke to her smile and her blinding light 
when it came to heart and soul she was out of sight 
Shadows of trees bend...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Adult Content: Abstract Poetry With Poet's Notes
once soothing to two 
wherever time was
(throughout our relationship at times there was harmony) 

lovers
in the moment
(that moment in time when we engaged in sex)
in...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas 2054
Twas the night before Christmas in 2054
The only sound being robotic mice on the floor
Our digital wish-lists were hung with ultra-precision
above the virtual fireplace in...

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Categories: on the cutting edge, celebration, christmas, future,
Form: Rhyme

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