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Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: oppress, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet



The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: oppress, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse
One Knee
Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  One Knee 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  September 2017


One Knee

Yes, I kneel down on one knee 
damn...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppress, africa, america, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dreams
The sun rose fireball red
Then splashed of tangerine
A miraculous work
The one of which I  dreamed  
No canvas can contain 
A pen's ink can't...

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Categories: oppress, feelings, nature,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member The Awakening - a Video Poem
Awakened by the creaking of the dying trees 
In this barren land devoid of a breeze
Imprisoned dreams in a land of unpicked seams
Endless chasms of...

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Categories: oppress, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



The Prodigal Son!?
And then I took this box of blight, and cast it into the sea of forgetfulness

Once I had finally realized, that it had become a...

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Categories: oppress, faith, happiness, life, loveme,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Till the Grave
The gloom I feel is gone when you are here
My life takes on the blush of virgin bride
I bloom in love the moment you are...

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Categories: oppress, i love you,
Form: Sonnet
A Novel Obsession
tap of nails, slide wood, pull drapes 
stains loiter in round mug shapes

water sipped, books stack, words leap
hush wizened pages, neighbors sleep 

journals, confessionals, down...

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Categories: oppress, books, crush, longing, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Every Day Is a Fresh Start
Every day is a fresh start, a new beginning.
We can reinvent ourselves
We can be revitalized and inspired.
We can instill hope and love in others.

Every face...

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Categories: oppress, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanquish Me Now
I oppress souls…
attacking every heart; exempting even the spirited
now, you’re my prey
yes, you who are despondent
frustrated, and now…
quitting!

Be prudently aware of my presence
hear my mocking,...

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Categories: oppress, character, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Care Not a Fat Hairy Fig
21.

I care not a fat hairy fig
For your task to decimate
And predicate my world
With such villainy and hate.

You evaporate the sunshine.
You bring nigh the distant...

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Categories: oppress, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Penny For Your Thoughts
A penny for your thoughts
now think before you talk
then tell me how you feel, so true and so real
as emotions continue to build
no longer hiding...

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Categories: oppress, friendshipme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Summers Sweet Caress
Summers Sweet Caress


In natures tranquil embrace cuddled within summers caress
I envision your fanciful face and my love for you can impress
Where the Cupids will brace...

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Categories: oppress, earth, nature, summer,
Form: Monorhyme
Political Correctness
As always 
The tyrant 
Wants to silence and oppress
By whatever means, 
Even political correctness. 


        W.A CHOLT. ...

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© W.A. Cholt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppress, discrimination, political, society,
Form: Tanka
Now Is the Time
Our nation is on a precipice
A deadly virus has gone amiss
Now is the time for us to get right with God
So that this unsettling spirit...

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Categories: oppress, christian, dedication, encouraging,
Form: Carpe Diem

Book: Reflection on the Important Things