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Premium Member The Price One Pays For Glory
Based on the Scripture, 2 Timothy 3:3-13, which gives 
warning to escape the snare of the birdcatcher.

On stage he struts in sequined costume
a plume of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pays, bible,
Form: Free verse



The Measure of Love
How does one measure love in scope or scale?
  For if such ledger ever was designed
Then logic would over the heart prevail.
  So...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pays, love, true love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Companion For Life
I arrive when life's first breath pays its toll
And stay after death till' visits are cold
I'm the deep well you draw from always full
You find...

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Categories: pays, emotions, life,
Form: Sonnet
Leonard Cohen Was Right
Standing before the microphone,
blank faces stare from cushioned chairs
Jewels sparkle, acting like they’re real,
while bow ties just seem sad…it happens

Marching to the beat of clicking...

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Categories: pays, poetry,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Wolfspirit
while eagles soar high
over rugged mountains
of south carolina
through writings shared 
WolfSpirit takes shape
my mind pictures the man
in all his wisdom
half human half spirit

i hear his...

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Categories: pays, god, meaningful, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poetrysoup Heroes
They read our poems, and more than that,
they leave a word or two.
It isn’t much, yet that’s a thing
some folks here NEVER do.

Some heroes never...

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Categories: pays, friend, poets,
Form: Quatrain
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat - Repost
I thought I’d repost this because of the state of the world today and because 
it might help someone see things a little differently or...

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Categories: pays, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Benedict Donald
The White House harbors an orange traitor
Benedict Donald, science-hater
He never met a fact
He didn't try to whack
This prick puts the 'dick' in Dictator!

The obtuse ogre...

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Categories: pays, anti bullying, community, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member How Dare We Ever So Boldly Speak Out
How Dare We Ever So Boldly Speak Out

Let me write in obscure and chaotic words
stirring waters tepidly unknown
Yet my spirit refuses to admire such birds
or...

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Categories: pays, slam,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Slice
Who ate the last slice?
I don't hear no confession
Who scarfed the last slice down?
Everyone seems to have a finger pointing obsession
Don't know why we have...

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Categories: pays, food, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The I Hate Mondays Shirt
“I hate Mondays,” yes, I surely do,
I say aloud while folding up that shirt
which, with some other tops, I'm giving to
the Goodwill store along with...

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Categories: pays, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Words From a River
Impatient, the river, no time for submission
Taking no notice of one all alone
It continues to flow, to swirl, twist and turn
It pays no attention, thinks...

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Categories: pays, introspection, nature,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Counting My Neighbor's Blessings
I was counting my neighbor's blessings,
And paying no mind to my own;
For it seemed to me the harder I worked,
The more my neighbor's had grown.

The...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pays, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Above All
And if all I had 
was a heart to give,
would that be enough?

and if all I had 
in that heart were love
would love be enough?

for...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pays, heart, inspirational, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Labyrinthine
“The pathless path beckons us ~
To get aboard God’s bliss bus”
            ~ quote by...

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Categories: pays, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Jueju

Book: Reflection on the Important Things