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Premium Member Of Ink
Partial Paper
 -A poet in heat-

Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...

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Categories: partial, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Prejudice
I hate 
your brownness 
your whiteness, 
your blackness
your freeness
I don’t care about niceness
I’m more partial to meanness 
 
I’m all the things bad
ugly and cruel
my...

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Categories: partial, character, prejudice,
Form: Personification
Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: partial, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet -This Poem Is About You
-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your...

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Categories: partial, dedication, deep, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Lies Art
The easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd

The sun melts on...

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Categories: partial, art, death, drink, lonely,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Mountain From a Pile
How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die 
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering...

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Categories: partial, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: partial, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Knickerless Vicar - Contains Innuendo :- Collaboration With Nina Parmenter
For a man of the cloth, our dear vicar
is not very partial to clothes
He is almost allergic to trousers
and y-fronts get right up his nose.

Ev’ry...

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Categories: partial, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters
[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.          
To cause no animosity among...

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Categories: partial, humorous, native american, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scars Left Behind
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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Categories: partial, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Building a Fantasy
Ferreting around, in dumpsters of dreams
In the back alleys of my imagination
Through swill, liaisons, and cheap rendezvous
And words misspoke in conversations
Rummaging for one morsel, an...

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Categories: partial, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunrise Glow of Tulips
Don’t try to straighten tulips, dear - they spread.
They lean and bend…they bump and crowd…infuse
Their sunrise glow - the perfect rainbow-red.

The priceless, Holland-choice, symphonic hues,
Impress...

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Categories: partial, flower,
Form: Terzanelle
Seagulls of Barry Island
The sea gulls down at Barry aren’t your average little pests 
 They think they own the sea side and the all wear hooded vests...

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Categories: partial, beach, bird, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Hope & Faith
My mommy strike me last night,
But I promise this will be our last fight,
I'm gonna run away to a place that's bright,
And when I'm gone,...

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© Lee Nguyen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: partial, lifeme, hope, me,
Form: I do not know?
Half Mast
Can one count the pieces of a broken heart? 
Can a flag half staff proudly wave?
Will kites still rise in staccato weather,
or partial freedom be...

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Categories: partial, conflict, emotions, hope, math,
Form: Rhyme

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