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Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: proceeds, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Paper Kingdom
Immigrants why do you come?
Whether you are spiritual or mathematical etc. This is our Karma:

Isacc Newton’s 3rd Law
For every action, there is an equal and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proceeds, how i feel, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gentle Breeze
The wind fuels a gentle breeze
that rustles the leaves with its touch.
Scurrying through the tops of trees,
the wind fuels a gentle breeze.
Not enough to discourage...

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Categories: proceeds, hyperbole, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...

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Categories: proceeds, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member The Good Girl
The Good Girl

Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car,...

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Categories: proceeds, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Spring's Rebirth
As winter's icy talons release their grip,
Leaving behind a landscape barren brown,
Spring waltzes in and proceeds to strip,
Winter of her tattered, lifeless gown,
Replacing it with...

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Categories: proceeds, bird, butterfly, spring,
Form: Quintain (English)
You Know
You Know

By Elton Camp

The conversation has only begun
When I realize it is with a moron.
On every thought he does bestow
The foolish phrase, “You know.”

Just how...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proceeds, funnyme, golf, me, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

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Categories: proceeds, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Nicotine
*LIFE,  WHAT A RUSH*

Silence needs to be spoken and put out like a cigarette
The joy - the laughter - the expression found in a...

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Categories: proceeds, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Daylight Robbery
Last night I stole a little - from time.
Don’t worry he’s got plenty on his hands
You could call it daylight robbery, but that wouldn’t be...

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Categories: proceeds, fun, light, morning, sun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tendrils of the Heart
A man I met once said to me,
“Love does not fall down from the trees”
A common expression from these parts
When you search with your mind,...

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Categories: proceeds, imagination, inspirational, introspection, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sun Stays Away These Days
Ah Frontiera, here we are at your last, you've thrown a rod, your life lies black
on oily ground - all this snow and you're a...

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Categories: proceeds, journey,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Interview - For Contest
This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene:...

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Categories: proceeds, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Love Is Evergreen
United Colours: Green
Sponsor: Silent One

Escape with me into tranquility, my sweet, 
relax with me inside your vitality and growth.
Lead me into your emerald world,
full of...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proceeds, color, green, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nothingness
“Nothingness” 

Words 
lines drawn 
unending

dusk 
to
dawn

characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind 

where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows 

and snakelike
moves 
outside the lines

electric 
we become strange
symphonies sublime;

engraved in...

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Categories: proceeds, muse,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs