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Existential Reprise
Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and...

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Categories: prohibiting, philosophyme, old, me, old,
Form: Free verse



Oratory - Power of the Spoken Word
As words escaped constricted passage
of time from eons of layered myths,
legends of demi-gods thus linked,
in glowing rendition, with whisk on hand
the Orator with staff, sang...

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Categories: prohibiting, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member In Case You Missed It - Revisit
My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prohibiting, writing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains...

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Categories: prohibiting, africa, america, history, racism,
Form: Verse
History's Sad Song
History's Sad Song (Revised)

throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long

way back during the Crusade
where religious debt...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prohibiting, introspection, life, , western,
Form: Free verse



Owl Eyes
4/18/2018
Wide melancholic Owl Eyed glass goddess

Almost hypnotic, guilt trips semi-honest.

Her pain is contagious, vocally pulling heart strings

All guilty pleas are aimless, only her tragic tone...

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Categories: prohibiting, abuse, anniversary, home, identity,
Form: Rhyme
:mother, Father, Brother, Sister:
My mother says that I'll never see. 
My father says that I'll never hear. 
My brother I'll never get higher than a C. 
My sister...

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Categories: prohibiting, abuse, brother, family, father,
Form: I do not know?
Religious Bigotry
In one spiritual being we do agree
Under varied names we called thee
From different images they were mold
How they came to be varies when told

Religion unites...

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Categories: prohibiting, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member America's Great Documents, Part 3
4. The Articles of Confederation   1778
 Three references: "The year of our Lord", first paragraph;        ...

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Categories: prohibiting, america, bible, christian, england,
Form: Prose
Premium Member What Might Be Seen
Natural predication
greets sacred promise
to restore peaceful justice.

Omnipresent predication
greets polypathic promise
for restoring love as grace-filling justice.

Omnipotently disintegrative powers
of HellFire prediction
too quickly settle for monoculturing retribution,
punishment
due to...

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Categories: prohibiting, culture, integrity, love, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Staying Awhile
Bought at an antiques store for a song:
unframed print #225 of 750, signed by the artist
Number III of the family name, all painters,
(presumably) Those forbears...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prohibiting, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Freedom of Speech
I’m flatter by the system it’s not corporate it just ain’t witness

If every answer came out of the air or thin hair we could do...

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Categories: prohibiting, art, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Vets Know
Vets Know
                  by Odin Roark



Deployment
(Via Refrigerator Magnets)
 
Sweetheart

Should...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prohibiting, life, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Sestina: Deforestation
Lost in the green, leafy space,
Resting on his back out in the country,
The old hermit picks himself up and stands.
He begins the morning trek in...

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© Yawara Ng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prohibiting, devotion, nature, nature, old,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Craziecharnanikins
There is a force upon this earth
a force of evil intent disguised
by empathy guiding the masses into a
feudal system of unequal apportions.
Already the wall is...

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Categories: prohibiting, confusion, philosophy, social,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things