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The Craft Can Capture It
Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predates, adventure, art, brother, dedication,
Form: Narrative



Falcons, Eagles, and Crows For Contest Titles
FALCONS, EAGLES, AND CROWS

Your aweful (sic) countenance of frowning 
eyes and sharp beak predates history.
The pharaohs knew you, but you ruled the air 
for millenia...

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Categories: predates, appreciation, bird, blessing, flying,
Form: Prose Poetry
All Hail Medea
Mossy vines served as camouflage for a decaying headstone.
The inscription is illegible, but that matters not to me.
At this centuries-old grave I place flowers and...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predates, beauty, death, desire, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Egyptian God
Amen - Ra is the God that my Egyptian zodiac says I am born under.
I took interest in the Egyptian zodiac for two reasons;
first because...

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Categories: predates, visionarygod, god,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Reality Check
A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully 
	To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
		On the heels of an enlightening glow worm

Surely life is no...

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Categories: predates, fashion,
Form: Free verse



Kinta Valley
THE KINTA VALLEY
OR : Dreams of the Sleeping Man
        (Anthropomorphic name of a mountain profile viewed from The...

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Categories: predates, environment, places,
Form: Epic
Black Shuck
Nile spreads through the valley like a snake
Pyramids look awesome in rays of sun about to wake
Pyramids are strong constructions can even take small earthquake
They...

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Categories: predates, animal, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Spectrums, Tints and Shades
Spectrums, Tints and Shades

Like the painter’s palette awash with hues and tones – white to tint and black to shade, greys scattered in between: 

What...

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© Paul Obah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: predates, africa, culture, , western,
Form: Free verse
A Knight's Parody
A magic knight coursing on in brilliance

On lean hack in clanging, cleaving aegis,

Crunching incantation-dark, blunt, and grunt.

So light illumines his cold, whiskered phiz

And it predates...

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Categories: predates, adventure, death, funny, happiness,
Form: Grook
Congested Without Psychological Rheum
No antihistamine can 
unblock the lifetime
accumulation of stoppered emotional gunk
zapping, undermining, and polluting *****
mine early life in retrospective avast flunk
stripped mined wasteland qua sinkhole,

where eternal...

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Categories: predates, abuse, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Personification
Giraffe Stands Tall
G    golden motifs enamor a brown tapestry 
I      in galore of grace, a head is held high.
R...

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Categories: predates, animal, beauty,
Form: Acrostic
Arthurian Poems Iii
Uther’s Last Battle
by Michael R. Burch

When Uther, the High King,
unable to walk, borne upon a litter
went to fight Colgrim, the Saxon King,
his legs were weak,...

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Categories: predates, england, literature, magic, myth,
Form: Verse
Fluffy Slipper Lint Day
Every day is special, but not all you’d recognize
The Fluffy Slipper Lint Day just took me by surprise
It occurs in late October, the 26th is...

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Categories: predates, fantasy, children, day,
Form: Rhyme
A Knight's Hunt
A magic knight coursing on in brilliance

On lean hack in clanging, cleaving aegis,

Crunching incantation-dark, blunt, and grunt.

So light illumines his cold, whiskered phiz

And it predates...

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Categories: predates, adventure, imagination, on writing
Form: I do not know?
Dogma Or Mystery, Part One
The problem I have with religions is that they forget themselves. All of the great religions start out from a MYSTERY. Something or someone happens...

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Categories: predates, analogy, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose

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