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Premium Member Ignorance Is Overrated
Some people take to Facebook
In an effort to create
A safe and pleasant habitat
Unfriending those who wish debate.
But still rile against a college chum
Who's not lost...

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Categories: overrated, growth, humor, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
                             ...

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Categories: overrated, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tit For Tat Poetry
you read out of obligation
a tit for tat consolation
a "thank you for your visit" affirmation

it's cool, this unspoken rule
I do it too, so what’s new?
It's...

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Categories: overrated, community, poetess, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Perception Is Everything
They say that life is unpleasant,
It's filled with more downs than ups,
But if you see the good in downs,
It'll be easier to stand back up.

They...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overrated, confidence, courage, future, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jealousy Rages
She storms into the room
there is fire in her eyes
and thunder in her step
rage rumbling reckless
She's livid
a live wire of fire
charged
She's on the move
To punish
Is...

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Categories: overrated, jealousy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Duke of Mar-A-Lago
(Sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Duke of Plaza Toro," from The Gondoliers)
 
When all the land did take a stand
When bugs...

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Categories: overrated, america, analogy, corruption, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Let There Be Limericks: a Little Bit Biblical I
The Garden of Eden
Some people believe that the Garden of Eden
Was in Africa, Asia, Australia...not Sweden.
The presumed site of its location
Is assumed from the interpretation
Of...

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Categories: overrated, bible, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Call Me What You Want: Rap
Call me stupid
I don’t really care
I’ve been there before
Call me reckless
It doesn’t bother me 
It makes me feel free
So, Why don’t you pull out a...

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Categories: overrated, analogy, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Unpopular Opinions
These are some of my unpopular opinions that some people won't like
You can't be considered the greatest rapper if you've had somebody ghostwrite
If you don't...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overrated, celebrity, courage, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Saturn Sunrise:
The C.I.A. and K.G.B. with the F.B.I and N.C.A
Could not find what I lost today.
I even tried NASA who were quick to reply,
"We are sorry...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overrated, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
Lost Soul
I was lost.

For years
I was in my own world,
off doing my own thing,

didn't want to be saved,
never mentioned his name.

I was lost.

Walked around
with no guidance.
Made...

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© Joy Nicole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overrated, appreciation, blessing, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse
Leaking Pen
Opening 
Fourth street and the divide meet 
Near the stream where it's waters Impede 
Five metres walk from the wooden bridge 
A little further away...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overrated, fate, hope, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Flashback To Present
The continuous memories scattered inside my mind
All the laughter and loving scenes are left behind
Leaving a life of bad possibilities where I came from
Never getting...

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Categories: overrated, childhood, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Quatrain
The Sun Plunged In the Space of Silence
The sun plunged
In the space of silence,
The summer has been extended
In a slow wandering ...

The orb has been drunk,
Gradually, by fringes.
> We did not hear...

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Categories: overrated, angel, beauty, color, day,
Form: Quatrain
Eautoscopy
Last night I slipped into an introspective dream
witness of a strange extracorporeal experience
the whole me deconstructed to its raw materials
Dead myself was found a bright...

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Categories: overrated, deep, dream, identity, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs