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Best Prototype Poems

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Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: prototype, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Inspector Tweede
There was no finer detective than Inspector Thaddeus Tweede of Scotland Yard!
He was most astute in solving crimes and could quickly detect a fake canard!
He...

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Categories: prototype, funny, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Bell's Blues
Staring, vapor locked, at my Hammond B-3 console organ, which dominates my 
kitchen.  Surely a symbol of my madness.  I can't help, but...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prototype, adventure, death, family, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Shelley (The Birth of Science Fiction)
Shelley
(The Birth of Science Fiction)

I. 
Young Shelley at Eton imbibed the mystique
Of science romanticized into extremes:
He gave his poor tutor a shock and a shriek—
Electric...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prototype, science fictionscience,
Form: Verse
A Snowman For You Pt 2
Continued from Pt 1


       In the living room I could hear my parrot.  I reached in the refrigerator...

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Categories: prototype, funny, happiness, sportsme, ,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Neutron Binary Star Collision
Neutron binary star collision 

               Drifting in the ether, most of...

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Categories: prototype, love, space, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Adam
Who am I
  but a prototype of my Creator

      He breathed His life 
     ...

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Categories: prototype, creation, god, humanity, voice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Epitaph of An Abdicator
    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited...

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Categories: prototype, appreciation, education, eulogy, hero,
Form: Epitaph
Stereotypes
A-	You measured me by my appearance and preconceived perceptions wondering if I fit the mold of black stereotypes;
B-	Your gaze holds a gesture of tired impatience...

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Categories: prototype, black african american,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member The Malay Pantun: Post-Colonial Writing
La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes
    The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies
Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes 
  ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prototype, on writing and words,
Form: Pantoum
Positive Mind
Positive mind – Zamreen Zarook

Minds are of various type,
Most are solely stereotype,
Positive once are always phenotype,
But being neutral also not a prototype.
 
Mind become as...

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Categories: prototype, betrayal, courage, drink, faith,
Form: Rhyme
African Queen
You are the prototype
Of the authentic beauty of Africa
Your twinkling eyes
Are a genuine reflection
Of the real lovely African girl.

The glimmering of your sunny face
Is the...

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Categories: prototype, love,
Form: ABC
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español (Sentanka)
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español   (Sentanka)

Übertragung von Sprache
Mit den einfachsten Mitteln
Über große Entfernung 

Versagt blieb ihm der Erfolg
Viel zu früh kam sein Tod


Transmission...

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Categories: prototype, people
Form: Tanka
Thank You Mirror, Mirror
Summoning the face in the Mirror the man calls
“Mirror, mirror on my tasteless bedroom wall,
Am I the only righteous dude who’s got it all?
I’m a...

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prototype, hope, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grimfree
Note:

Dear Chris,

I could go into souls as mindbody identities with interdependently co-arising individuation, also known as living, and incarnation, but my gut says to go...

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Categories: prototype, birth, creation, culture, deep,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs