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Premium Member I Want Not To Fade Away
...My one burning wish -
I want not to fade away
like rotten lace, dumped
onto a trash heap and forgotten.

I want to leave myself behind, 
for those who come after
to inhale during breakfast.

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, character, hope, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covidia
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She came from nowhere, mouse-like quiet
At first we thought it’s just a trick
But soon her powers were dark like night
We saw her strength cut to the quick.

Covidia came from forei......

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© Andy Chunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, death, depression, endurance, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Psalm
...O LORD my God, define my purpose in Your Name that my confident path fades not obscure but blooms with clarity in mind, body and spirit.

-    For in each of Your beloved children 
     is a H......

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Categories: propagated, bible, blessing, christian, desire,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Spaces Between
...No Particle Theory can ever be Unified – 
for there is always the space between...the
unknown that separates while binds us
in a matrix of primitive wonder. Dark
Matter is only dark to those accu......

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, creation, imagination, inspiration, light,
Form: Free verse
Purple Majesty
...We had saved our precious stock of grandpa’s grape
prepared the ground and amended the soil.
After laying out the orchard, we planted cuttings with our own hands.
Fed the young vines with love and......

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Categories: propagated, family, life, work, work,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Rose
...Lay down the spoon and still the hand that shakes
the smell of cooking mixed with that of fear
eyes reddened, wide, haunted expression make
await a fury fuelled by drugs and beer.
Self worth crus......

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, sorrow, drug,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar
...Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate

         For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of 
the THIRUK-KURAL

Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I had expou......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, beauty, character, creation, god,
Form: Villanelle
Wheat Cronicles
...The first person who grew wheat
would have been called “wheat”
and hence the local chieftain and village folks
would have given a nomenclature
to his discovery,
honoring it with his name
it wou......

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Categories: propagated, analogy, green,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Ghost of Winston Smith
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Announcement to all Outer party members:

Thomas Woodward is dead. He is an unperson. You are to incinerate anything in your possession that might be contaminated with his DNA. All memories of hi......

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Who Lied To You?
...Girl, Who lied to you?
Who told you that being you just won't do?
Who told you that your flabby thighs and your big brown eyes were uncouth?
Who told you that you weren't pretty enough and that yo......

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Categories: propagated, faith, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form:
Answering the Call
..." Answering The Call "



The fighting American soldiers who answered our need
they are all the brave men who followed the creed
I think of past history with a silent rage
as I give this thoug......

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Categories: propagated, warwar, war,
Form: Rhyme
War Is
...War Is...

War is unkind to servicemen, women, animals, flora, fauna, nature's terrains, seas, atmospheres, and everything else
War is unjust and unethical to everyone
War is the slaughtering of ......

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Categories: propagated, adventure, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: List
Premium Member After the Genocide
...For years, the ominous signs were palpable
The deep fraternal mistrust festered and discernable
Propagated by colonial masters to divide and make Rwanda malleable
And left lingering became monstro......

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Categories: propagated, abuse, anger, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Rising With the Rising Stars
...You think, therefore 
You're rising with the rising stars

But in dreams 
You're falling to the far side

Day by day 
Collecting what's yours from your sales
Of whatever it is you sell these ......

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Categories: propagated, assonance, dance, philosophy, rap,
Form:
Cats Are Lucky
...The human species has been propagated
God knows, we have multiplied way Beyond necessity
We are living longer
Relationships don’t have to only 
Be for reproductive purposes

I have an eleven ye......

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© Kj Hooten  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: propagated, love, philosophy, old, may,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things