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Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: prominent, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: prominent, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: prominent, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron...

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Categories: prominent, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Memories
Life was harsh for me
very harsh from the beginning, in the little village in Greece.
We hardly had anything to eat because everything was
destroyed by WW2...

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Categories: prominent, courage, god, life, memory,
Form: Bio



This Old House
Inside Old House by cujo-chan


As this old house crumbles slowly to dust,
I humbly polish the prominent rust, 
and more aware of my mortality,
I search for...

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Categories: prominent, hope, house, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 0' Soul, Can Poetic Art Heal Such Broken Heart, Renewed Tribute Series, Emily Dickinson
0' Soul, Can Poetic Art Heal Such Broken Heart

Her pen bled deep, and this her fans may yet agree
She felt a torrid hell, darkest of...

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Categories: prominent, appreciation, art, character, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member More Than a Clown
I don't want to play anymore,
it's time to put away my mask.
Although people still need to laugh,
I'm no longer up to the task.

My act isn't...

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Categories: prominent, career, character, depression, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Card Tricks
It was a party like most, I guess
And not a “fun” one, I must confess
But our hostess I adored
And I just couldn’t say: “I’m bored”,

So,...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prominent, conflict, dark, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member James Bond Island
A breathtaking panoramic view fascinated my sight into the offing,
As the sea gloriously shows its precious treasure magnificently floating;
Making me wish to be an albatross...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prominent, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kilroy Was Here
There was an elusive little guy often espied during World War Two,
And who he was and whence he came no one ever really knew!
He was...

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Categories: prominent, funny, nostalgia, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
An Illicit Affair
It was an illicit affair, you'd think, they wouldn't dare, they believed, if we handle it with care no one would be aware. Bur they...

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Categories: prominent, appreciation, betrayal, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
The End of the World
Sweet song of humanity, play on

apparently, we still ain't gone

global catastrophe seems eminent

yet bars and parties are still prominent

a question of when, not if

that's what...

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Categories: prominent, angst, confusion, dark, natural
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Don't Dare Ask
We had no hand in this rape of nature
Yet we will bear its full weight and measure
Can climate be sentenced to certain doom
Is there time...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prominent, change, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Hardest Hue To Hold
Colors dance on the canvass of my life
In an intricate interplay of hues
Intensifying and weakening at different stages
Fluid colors in constant motion
As I age, different...

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Categories: prominent, color, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse

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