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Premium Member Overlap
The overlapping of me and us three
Of who I was and who I turned out to be
I never ever felt I was good enough 
Or...

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Categories: overlap, abuse, angst, appreciation, care,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Seasons of a Fruitful Tree
I love my little corner of the yard
when nearby Lilac Bush perfumes the air.
The human dwellers treat me with regard.
They sit behind their house and...

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Categories: overlap, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Biggest Loser's Sundress
Colorful flowers and spaghetti straps
And my flabby arms from seams overlap
    But the sundress still beckons
    It’s diet time,...

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Categories: overlap, funny
Form: Limerick
Interlude
I'm smart, crippled with knowledge I never sought,
things I wish I didn't know.
The song of a kiss so brilliant it's like an x-ray, 
the voice...

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Categories: overlap, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow Lovers
Could it be love when shadows overlap
Their beings blending, doubling to dark
Embracing tiled or terra cotta floor
Sliding silently as silhouettes of shame
Clinging to the still...

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Categories: overlap, love, lust, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Two Faces of Spring
It’s early spring, and tulips are in bloom;
as folks come out and shed their winter wrap;
the season comes alive from nature’s nap,
and warms the air,...

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Categories: overlap, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Dani a Charming Cvs Pharmacist
within Zieglerville, pennsylvania

genuine snow white hair 
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private) 
after i croon (to said lass), 

the...

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Categories: overlap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Truth Telling
Love, joy and peace
three virtues, over-simplified, 
three fairly well-understood character traits
desired by friends, rejected by very few
who live in community with others.

Patience, goodness, kindness
Patience, I...

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Categories: overlap, 11th grade, friendship, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Does My Kitty Cat Go
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Where does my kitty cat go every day?
When I'm heading to school, is he getting away?
Or forgetting he musn't let strays in to play?

Where does...

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Categories: overlap, adventure, cat, children, friendship
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rip Rbg
"All night long the northern streamers
Shot across the trembling sky:
Fearful lights, that never beckon
Save when kings or heroes die." - William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  ...

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Categories: overlap, eulogy, farewell, hero,
Form: Ode
Pain
The mist of our actions from the past sometimes hit our present days with over spray. Seasons of life twist, turn, overlap as good &...

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Categories: overlap, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Age and Relativity
I’m not sure how one explains old age…I’m not sure what rules apply.
At the funeral when my Grandma died…I remember how they tried…

I heard them...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlap, old,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Whispered Musing
Written: November 14, 2023
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We ventured into everlasting words
Cast-off Calix of clear...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlap, analogy, appreciation, character, emotions,
Form: Free verse
To Rap Or Not To Wrap
Wrap, rap a Christmas wrap
open the mind turn on the tap,
a roll of paper with colouration
metres or yards without perforation,
to be carefully folded with a...

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Categories: overlap, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Different Time Different Places
Different worlds and different races

Sometime many years ago, a catastrophe began
wiping out most civilized, the ones that we call man
Cities were abandoned, inhabitants left the...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlap, earth, imagination, planet, science
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs