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Hard Drive
For months I’ve partitioned – sectored my strife
Trying to determine – wrong from the right
Clinging to bits – healing the bytes
Moving and changing – formatting...

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Categories: protracted, computer-internet, inspirational, on work
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member After the Interim
She met him in the interim,
 that space between endings and beginnings;
             ...

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Categories: protracted, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From the Newspaper Stand
Along this foggy daybreak stroll,
I tread along the intersection
between Mabini Street and EDSA boulevard, 
crossing number 25 Ortigas Road.

I breathe in the same grain 
of...

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Categories: protracted, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holding On To the Expectations of a New Dawn
You swallow billions in cash, yet your assault strengthens,
everything with life now stands on one side against you
but your unpredictability is what gives you this...

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Categories: protracted, anxiety, bullying, cancer, character,
Form: Epic
Zorro Swings
Zorro swings and Zorro falls,
sadly landed on someones balls
excommunicated from the mall,
for gross protracted screaming.

Zorro on the crutch of one,
slapped down by a redneck nun,
pivoted...

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Categories: protracted, adventure,
Form: Rhyme



I Don'T Know What You Came To Do
I don't know what you came to do 
But I came to praise the Lord
To proclaim His anointing spirit
And with Him to get on board
Jesus...

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Categories: protracted, faith, gospel, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Carpe Diem
Contemplations of An Existentialist
Life secretly offering fleeting moments of happiness… but the underlying sadness creeps through; the grief of human condition always seeps through from the unconscious. I...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protracted, life, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Story of History
The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in...

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Categories: protracted, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canto Xvii Hell Translation
“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”

So my duke started...

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Categories: protracted, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Massacre So Self Inflicted
A ripe body of Adolescence, nuzzled by beauty
on which hair is polished by crystals and sapphire
but lacks in the garrison of virtues and patriotism
becoming blind...

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Categories: protracted, education, environment, planet, political,
Form: Epic
The Trials of Meretrix Canto V
Here, this day, on this inglorious
Field
Thy vain struggles will count no
Valour.
All hope now abandoned,
Imminent defeat unconcealed;
Erstwhile countenance display 
Such waxen, languid pallor.
Surround by your dwindling...

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Categories: protracted, philosophy, proposal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Naive and Foolish
Entering a new phase of life full of standing ovation
can be disrupted by the polarized effect of growth.
Innocence is pressed by social hypocrisy
to expose a...

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Categories: protracted, character, conflict, confusion, growing
Form: Epic
Premium Member Unheeded In the Spread of His Name, Quaking
Unheeded in the spread of his name, quaking
   Through the knit brow cuddling the sombre eye
Twice buckled into the couch of his yearning

The...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: protracted, passion,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member Knife's Edge
the tattoo on her eyebrow frowned

at the sight of yesteryear’s cutlass

the well-rounded blade had become

blunt dull and worn down from overuse 

and yet straight to...

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Categories: protracted, death,
Form: Free verse
Sobbing of Mother
Sobbing of Mother

Who would be more knower definition of love?
When mother’s son sleeps untimely on the pool of blood
Timid when fires bullet triggering gun
Nozzle remains...

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Categories: protracted, anxiety, deep, devotion, heartbroken,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs