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Premium Member Maggie and Porter
Come meet two of my former patients;
A nursing home room they did share
Maggie was blind; Porter became her eyes
Finding, picking up, helping her

He was kind....

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Categories: porter, death, family, love,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Spinal Decompression Surgery
I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my...

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Categories: porter, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Gotta Have Heart
Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie 
Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie,
door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong,
Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, pluralism...

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Categories: porter, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Random Entries From My Diary
"I never travel without my diary - One should have something sensational to read"
...Oscar Wilde, 1891

30 May 48:  I graduated from high school today...

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Categories: porter, funnyschool, family, family, may,
Form: Couplet
We . . .Not Frustrated(Prof. Olufemi Bamiro)uivc
WE . . .  NOT  FRUSTRATED

Those whose mouth  speak and ooze 
Only fire of a voluble vibrating vocabulary 

Those whose sin is...

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Categories: porter, devotion, faith, inspirational, peoplefire,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member An Absinthe Eventide
I sauntered in an evening mist
   A midnight's heaven, magic-kissed
      Lamp-lit raindrops pattered, awesome
    ...

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Categories: porter, adventure, imagery, magic, paris,
Form: Quintilla
Much Too Late
He loved her for years,
Silently and in secret,
Never daring to hint 
Of the emotions he felt,
His shyness a lasting barrier.

They hardly exchanged a word,
Quick flickering...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: porter, death
Form: Free verse
Signs of the Times
SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Wow, this is cool.
Spectacular and groovy
So real to my intellect that I feel that I am a noetic ambiance.
Surreal and extroverted
I am...

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Categories: porter, imagery, life, metaphor, psychological,
Form: Imagism
Runaway Train
While others writers think of love
you’ve shat on that pure white dove.
Before on and on, I must go,
I’m telling others of what I know.

Love to...

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Categories: porter, life, satireheart, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spontaneity
Why should the mimic apologize? 
Where are the cupboards?
Where are the wages?
Where is the tailor? I had
no use for algebra, I knew it-
in as much...

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Categories: porter, adventure, dream, fire, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beer
This is the best beer I've ever had. 
Yes, The best beer I've ever had. 
No beer is really bad, but 
This is the best beer I’ve ever...

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Categories: porter, adventure, best friend, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Papa and His Princess
She twirls round and round,
In her yellow princess gown,
Her eyes all aglow with delight.
On her head sits a crown,
Plastic jewels all around,
A charming, adorable sight.

"Papa,...

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Categories: porter, child, dance, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Confederate States of America Speak
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA SPEAK
(IN REMEMBRANCE OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIER ALBERT PORTER)

They were brainwashed by the White man.
Persuaded that slavery had ended.
However, still oppressed for...

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Categories: porter, america, appreciation, birth, black
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Notes On Sister Aimee
Ah the cake before the icing!!!!!! 

Notes:

Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian born...

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Categories: porter, angel, mother, religious, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
Chicken Little
Chicken Little ( by Myself and Shukura Porter)

A crackhead stands out on the corner holding a torn Bible...claiming he has found religion...still very much in...

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Categories: porter, corruption, dark, loss, world,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things