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Premium Member Apologies and Roses
We don’t appreciate
the sun until it r a i n s,
warmth of gentle rays
that subtly stroke
distressed skin
  when time was f r o z...

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Categories: oppressing, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member O' Wheel of Fortune
My heart shrivels dry, blackened rose in bitter anguish, ...
 Do you feel my pain? 
   Why must the flame of day dwindle...

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Categories: oppressing, musicme, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Women of the Soup
The women of the soup have been attacked again this morning
the King is on his soapbox, with profanity and warnings
His credibility is gone as he...

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Categories: oppressing, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Apartheid
Africa's children blighted in the rich land of birth
Persecuted by the oppressing hand of foreign greed
Agitate for love to find in ancient pigment its worth
Rights...

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Categories: oppressing, people, children, , cute,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Yangtruth With Yintegralbeauties
Beauty, like Truth,
speaks eternal promise
of timeless decomposition.

Flexing Grace
effects empathic Truth
optimizing promise prophets past
reiterating Golden Mythic Creation Stories.

Many have mentioned strength of compassion
and tenacious flexibility of...

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Categories: oppressing, health, love, nature, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry



A Glimpse Within - I
The salt water
baubles washes
gently
upon the jetty sent
from lands distant.
Pushed by a hovering
yellow moon,
sometimes built into
thunderous waves
		of hurricanes.
Change comes rapidly
and dangerously
as the sea meets
yesterday coming
back.
It speaks...

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Categories: oppressing, depression, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Treaty of Waitangi
In 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi  was signed,
from then to now the government can't hide,
freedom the Maori wanted, from oppressing minds
but what they got...

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Categories: oppressing, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Wrongs Worth a Right
Today, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and...

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Categories: oppressing, culture, earth, humor, integrity,
Form: Narrative
Tumor
There’s a tumor growing deep down in my soul
Pleading with me for full control
There’s a fire burning beyond within
Suffocating me in all my sin
There’s a...

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Categories: oppressing, confusion, deep, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
Architects of Humanitarian Crises
Copyright © 2008 #03
4/12/2008 // (Edited: 1/22/2013/lp
(a historical glimpse of humanity's rise)

*This poetic epic begins with the
greatest sin against humanity

*This poem is dedicated to all
serving...

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© Les Pruitt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppressing, christian, devotion, faith, history,
Form: Couplet
Upset
mr. buffet can’t believe that
so much “inequality exists
without people really getting upset” &
as he & some of his richest friends in the world
start to give...

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Categories: oppressing, life, people, time, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right...

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Categories: oppressing, adventure, earth, life, light,
Form: Political Verse
Skating
Riding in glides,

super-sailing in leaps-
going on and on about the otherside,

trailing to collide,

and oppressing in the peaks of my plight,

in the loneliest day which is...

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Categories: oppressing, best friend, care, growth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Winged Lessons
Winged Lessons
            by Odin Roark

Sitting astride his backpack,
A roadside nomadic looked up from his...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppressing, bird, books, education, growing
Form: Free verse
Crows and Ravens
As black birds, bad luck shadows us,
For we have many personas like trickster
Or ill-omened out caster, cast away
No matter how our broken speech sounds.
Our mere...

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Categories: oppressing, allusion, bird, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs