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Premium Member State of Grace-In the Woods
In the woods...

You can find that mysterious place
Where solace, is best described as grace
That place where man and mind, can talk
And when needed, rearrange his...

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Categories: only the strong survive, nature,
Form: Free verse



Who Ate My Pizza
Johnny stutters when he's nervous
Gina skipped to school one day
Janice lost her favorite ruler
In the backyard yesterday

Where is my pizza
It was in the microwave
Someone came...

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Categories: only the strong survive, humor, inspirational, life,
Form: Verse
World of Violence
World of violence

As the morning  slowly  breaks
and, daylight in fil trates...
I feel,
the sunshine-   burn away the grey
I feel,
the dawning, of a...

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Categories: only the strong survive, anxiety, conflict, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lunatics Next Door
They drift across the border
Some drunk
Some looking for work
A better life
Drug runners
All working on night moves
They never move during the light of day
Trails through the...

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Categories: only the strong survive, change, class, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Hey Little Black Girl
Hey little black girl keep your head up and walk proud the ghetto cant break you 
and the hood cant make you who you are...

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Categories: only the strong survive, black-african amergirl, girl,
Form: Kwansaba



A Slavery Mentality
Believe in what I am told or what I see 
This war is bitter and I aspire to be free 
Free from these shackles and...

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© Dee Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: only the strong survive, life, passion, political, social,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Dreams Happy Dreams
To fall asleep everynight
Is like a meal I happily prepare.
 That's where my happiness lyes  
When my Father takes me there.
To forgive sometimes
 that's...

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Categories: only the strong survive, beautiful, blessing, christian, creation,
Form: ABC
From An Eagle's Eye
Distant mountains, a purple haze,
Kangaroo stands up to gaze,
Station horses and sheep graze,
On an unforgiving plain.

Red gums line a bone-dry creek,
Pink galahs swirl and shriek,
Bones...

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Categories: only the strong survive, bird, nature,
Form: Lyric
Why Didn'T They Kill Me
‘Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.’-Cormac McCarthy



Why didn't they kill me... 
why am i still here...?
Being successful is...

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Categories: only the strong survive, confusion, courage, dark, day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Specie Unknown
Just a casual experiment, a new direction,
a bit of slime, residue of past process
left unattended in a remote corner obscure,
to grow, to morph, divide in...

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Categories: only the strong survive, poetry, science,
Form: Verse
She's Just Tired
She’s just tired and scared of walking home alone,
Stepping outside in the dark is among her greatest threats,
Honestly, she is afraid that any day she...

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Categories: only the strong survive, africa, anxiety, girl, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perils of Nature
spring bursts into life
                     ...

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Categories: only the strong survive, bird, death, life, nature,
Form: Tanka
Cold War
The war it's cold with no signs of any ending, it's like adding another twenty years to a life sentence, even in the heat of...

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© Corey Ross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: only the strong survive, faith, war, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Duke
A lone rider sits high in the saddle,
As the horizon's sunrise spreads across,
The open prairie.
Twin pearl handed pistols rest at his side,
As rusty spires clang...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: only the strong survive, adventure, america, celebrity, courage,
Form: Free verse
Leery of the Theory
As a child, I was taught that God created everything
But when I went to school,
the theory of evolution was the accepted doctrine

That kinda teaching didn't...

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Categories: only the strong survive, allegory, allusion, analogy, religious,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs