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Premium Member In Sustenance of Profligate Confabulation
I have seen many writers of late, (who struggle
To be taken seriously), interject "big" or unusual
Or fancy words into their prose in an effort to...

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Categories: profligate, appreciation, words, writing,
Form: Free verse



Windmills On Your Mind
Comely
Calmly
Slowly 
Proudly
Windmills comely, calmly generate
Power slowly proudly profligate...

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Categories: profligate, environment, technology,
Form: Tyburn
Premium Member Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of Nebraska
My love is light (a fairy kiss?)          
        ...

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Categories: profligate, lost love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member We Our Souls Will Spend Our Time Repenting
we our souls will spend our time repenting 
but the body of truth always comes to light 
in drawing an end to come with true...

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Categories: profligate, allegory, change, earth, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Like Daisies On Stalks
Besotted winged pollinators
roistering barrage drowned
amidst general insectivorous cacophony
indistinct auditory signals communicated

intermingled with bounteous wafting fragrance
midwifed edenic floral pullulation
sensate admixture viz colored spectrum
amidst unrehearsed extemporaneous

orchestral suite...

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Categories: profligate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member We Our Souls Will Spend Our Time Repenting
we our souls will spend our time repenting 
but the body of truth always comes to light 
in drawing an end to come with true...

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Categories: profligate, allusion, conflict, earth, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Home, Bleep Home
The time had come, we were agreed
To discontinue paying rents.
We'd make our plans and then proceed
To buy or build a residence.

i said an older house...

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Categories: profligate, family, house, humor, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cancer of Africa
Our Shame, 

"PRESIDENT" & "LEADERS" 

Full grown men,
old,
devoid of vision,
Lacking in wisdom, 
wicked weaklings 
protected by paltry paid gun men 
great grandfathers, 
unwilling to train...

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Categories: profligate, cancer, corruption, cry, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Better Angels Prevailed
Sad that once I immersed myself in bitter feuds
Add them to early years consumed by madding fears,
Clad in times, as well, by lingering angry interludes...

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Categories: profligate, change, character, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Lento
Wake Up
No gas in Nashville,
Palin Posturing,
A nation deceived by identity politics and the pernicious sting of white privilege,
Countries spoiled by profligate consumption,
Chinese writhing under the weight...

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Categories: profligate, political
Form: Blank verse
Heat From the Heavens
The mean temperature for January two thousand and six (thus far)
   noticeably above the norm for this time of year
prognosticators foretell various forecasts...

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Categories: profligate, nature, passion, visionary, planet,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Secularexperience V Sacredtheory
Experience v Theory,
like Both/And inducted feelings v. Either/Or deductions,
like Internal Information v External ReConstructions,
like Memory v ReImaging,
like Cause/Effect v DNA of causal-effective nest 
of resilient...

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Categories: profligate, caregiving, education, environment, green,
Form: Political Verse
Oh How I Love the Temperate Zone
Oh how I love the temperate zone!
When all four seasons manifest.
One by one they’ve come and gone;
Rebirth of each now deemed the best.
But just as...

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Categories: profligate, earth, inspirational, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Oskar
I’m watching a movie about Oskar Schindler
Who I assumed was just another profligate swindler
A hedonistic man if ever there was one
Great in business but involved...

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Categories: profligate, holocaust,
Form: I do not know?
Bethel
I sit, in torment, striving to succeed in a world that would not have me,
I am the battered women of old, I am the persecuted...

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Categories: profligate, faith, world, , cute,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs