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Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: one man, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Kiss of the Eagle
Many eons passed on Earth, who only saw your face
Untouched your virgin body, floating there in space
Waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, quarter, full and new
Selene the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one man, adventure, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Life, His Love
Above a cloud, in soundless, still tumescence,
a goddess rests; below her is the sea.
A strip of it is rippling luminescence,
a path of light in night’s...

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Categories: one man, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone...

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Categories: one man, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Sing Solitude-Play Soltude-Confetti's Song
Hidden away 
between the broken chimes
of church bells 
lies the dream of a man
the waltz of a butterfly
and love for one woman
He carves her name...

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Categories: one man, lovedream, dream, love,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: one man, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Art - Anne-Louis Girodet
Description of The Funeral of Atala (Funérailles d'Atala or Atala au tombeau), 1808, Louvre

I sauntered through the Louvre, observing art.
One painting struck me for its...

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Categories: one man, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beautification
Corralled in Plato’s cave,
groupies of untenable shadows,
silenced their intuitions to the smoke and other sighs.

Jamaica’s capital hosted a convention
giving an ever-leaving coward’s play a stage,
now...

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Categories: one man, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters
[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.          
To cause no animosity among...

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Categories: one man, humorous, native american, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the...

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Categories: one man, western,
Form: Rhyme
Inspired By Slim Shady
You can probably tell I've always been inspired by Slim Shady 
By the way I rhyme words and the fact my pen's crazy
I'm the equivalent...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one man, fun, funny, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I Believe
I believe we are all family....
  and golden
  and our souls (are One)
  with starlight

I believe in the love in your eyes(all)
...

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Categories: one man, hope, life, together,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Reflection
...and the Demon spoke,
its voice deep and mellow like smooth satiny chocolate,
"There is more, much more than good and evil,"
the words thunderously whispered.
The verdant emerald...

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Categories: one man, dark, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Potd a Soul Swirled In This World



Happy are we, who  love the beauty of all things.
Who stand for the beauty of a child.
We......who have soft, soul’s wings.
Those who believe in...

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Categories: one man, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: one man, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs