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Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: phonies, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales...

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Categories: phonies, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Bedlam Blues
Cain killed Abel on a Monday night 
Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight
Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?”...

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Categories: phonies, allegory, funny, murder, mythology,
Form: Political Verse
Wedding Bell Blues
The tradition of marriage,
Bourgeois blackmail and baggage,
Is it all a bargain for men,
Is this what white weddings meant?
All the love that is lost,
And what is...

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Categories: phonies, husband, romance, romantic, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Few of My Suckiest Things With Apologies To Julie Andrews
Stubbing my toeses and whiskers on women
Stepping on nettles and by a swarm of bees bitten
Bounded like hostages tied up with strings
These are a few...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phonies, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Three Dreams
As a child I had recurring dreams
Of Indians, death and gorilla themes.

The Indians rode on painted ponies,
So real they seemed, they couldn't be phonies.

Turned out...

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Categories: phonies, death, dream, life,
Form: Couplet
Life's a Gamble 1
Life's a gamble, you gon' take that chance?
Damn right, I'm 'bout cash, you know what fills my pants
That charge carry life, you gon' stay on...

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Categories: phonies, life, metaphor, people, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Gotta Get Down To Go Up
you gotta join in the struggle for the ill-gotten gains
of the movers and the shakers on the streets Wall and Main
we will take what we...

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Categories: phonies, rap,
Form: Free verse
The Lighter Side of Me
I’m not much into phonies 
And I love to play the ponies
I spend too much shoppin’
And do too less moppin’

I love my amazing hubby
My fantastic...

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Categories: phonies, lifelove,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Holden Caulfield
Ode to Holden Caulfield

I'm not even going to mention that term you scattered so ubiquitously throughout your memoir

It's pretentious to bring it up, like I'm...

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Categories: phonies, loneliness, meaningful, symbolism,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Poetacracy
Politicians put their souls for sale
So they can sip cocktails
Riding the coattails of the working class
It's a mass barrage of phonies and poison gas
But everyone's...

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Categories: phonies, america, anger, political, spoken
Form: Free verse
Tight End
Beatin' this path 'til my heart stop
cause any moment my heart. could. stop.
Swear any day my chest might pop
So sit tight, bout to open up...

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Categories: phonies, age, allusion, anxiety, books,
Form: Rhyme
Unrighteous Self-Pity
If you know how to die you know how to live.
Listen to Bryant
In the basement by the light bulb.
Live and Let Die
Let Me Die First.
(Release...

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Categories: phonies, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Leading You
Leading you!

Close your eyes let me show you the way
Not a hit movie or child's play
Let me reveal some things to you this day
Answer questions...

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Categories: phonies, humor, leadership,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Five From LA
in a room laced with gloom 
his beats boom he dreams of wreckin' the mike
his momma's home she's alone 
a sad song she struggles she...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phonies, society,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs