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Premium Member The Crossroads of Life
The Crossroads of Life!

The crossroads of life—fate!
And there you wait.
For the sign that presents forth
The goals—that will guide your destiny.
The phrase is synonymous with challenge,
Bold...

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Categories: precedents, allegory, destiny, fate, philosophy,
Form: Verse



Acclivity
ACCLIVITY

It is so easy to refine and relax through this perceptual escape.
Your thoughts are pure and thinking is disengaged.
As time pass, we will discuss out.
We...

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Categories: precedents, freedom, future, inspirational, peace,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Ordinary Care of Providence
Madison's defense of the establishment clause to the Virginia legislature:
"Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite...

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Categories: precedents, angel, body, light, miracle,
Form: Verse
Same-Sex Marriage
Years ago a marriage couldn’t
Join two different races.
Still some people hate
What that legality embraces.

Now today, the fight goes on
With gays who want to wed.
Those with...

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Categories: precedents, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Trilogy Ends
The brutalized girl breathed her last in faraway Singapore
She met her fate returning home, a couple of weeks ago
To shift the focus of the masses...

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Categories: precedents, angst, death, girl, girl,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Cautious adjudication, the gravitas of soft-spoken word.
Your legendary legacy, illustrious and exalted.
Advocate for gender justice, legal insights not always heard.
Yet, your jurisprudence was seldom persuasively...

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Categories: precedents, abortion, america, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Elegy
The Bill of Rights, Part Ii
No illegal search and seizure
Says amendment Number Four
Probable cause necessary
Before we break down your door.
The warrant spells out what they search,
Describing things they will seize.
So...

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Categories: precedents, confusion, education, funny, history,
Form: Free verse
Subliminal Manipulation
I have my reasons-
most of which you'll never know;
I have my precedents,
for every friend and every foe.

My obsession is subliminal manipulation-
based on mutual obligation,
and entire...

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Categories: precedents, analogy, character, me, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Partitioned Wailing Wall - Part Two
Part Two

                     one by one...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precedents, war, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Rambling Fred
Excuse my rambling on so, 
                   ...

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Categories: precedents, character, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Remember the Brush Arbor Days
Far from the twisted Church and state                  ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precedents, america, christian, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Health Loss Wargames
As I transitioned from high school
to the University of Michigan,
one of the leading national health and safety issues
was painfully violent loss of Vietnamese and U.S....

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Categories: precedents, america, conflict, confusion, growing
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Assonance

My life is is assonance
No mints or common sense
It's dense without hints
Trapped in tents
Hints dropped like nonsense
Like vowels or consonants
These gents are what prevents
Presidents from...

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Categories: precedents, assonance, funny, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Virtual Rarities
VIRTUAL RARITIES
techniques
 transformed
to
explore
 the potentials &
 possibilities
of
  modelling
the
initiative&
 generatively
 appropriated &
reimagined

renditions
surrounded
by
 iterative complexity
 extracted
&
merged
 with the
visual

expressing
a mood
static
 tangible
& prominent
inn
 alternatives
stylised imagery
  symbolised
by
 the
 serene
  introspective
 distilled
  with
 uncertainty
marginalised
in
precedents by
conceptual
 stereotypes
  expressed
 in token
proponents
so finely
tuned

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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Categories: precedents, poetry,
Form: Other
Devotion Designer
Hosting a bash, the belly butterflies flutter,
From the thought of you, I melt like butter.
Strong willed, outspoken unless my affection,
My retreat if ever eyes should...

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Categories: precedents, love
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things