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Premium Member Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the...

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Categories: rank, mental illness,
Form: Prose



Shells of Alamein Lest We Forget War
Lest we forget

When the Shelling 
And the Din of gunfire
Finally stopped 

His mind was shot
A hollow broken shell
Stood

Crooked in the corner of some foreign land
Every...

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Categories: rank, slam, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disunity Then Unity
DISUNITY THEN UNITY
 
Last Episode of Pure Fantasy.

Fireball always seems to take center stage,
Except in the last episode it was with absolute rage,
Echoman has secretly...

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Categories: rank, universe, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE QUEEN OF POOP FIGHTS BACK!

Some numpty bad mouthed my soup style
I’ve taken a break for a while
But I won't be deterred
From writing about turd
And subjects some others deem vile

I’m...

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Categories: rank, anti bullying, how i
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Yellow Press -
He undresses rumor to reveal lies
this is how the desperate man cries,
Extra Extra he tries to sadden ya,
a bundle of rancor rambles from the shambles...

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Categories: rank, bullying,
Form: Epitaph



Premium Member Illness is
a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching...

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Categories: rank, life, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jan and the Sheriff - Collaboration
The new sheriff of Poetry Soup
 Rode into town on a horse named Snoop
 Jan was on his wanted list
 And the gang she did...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rank, fun, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Titanic
They hailed her as the empress of the waves
Supreme upon the ocean’s vast domain,
Yet those who watched her launch, and bid ‘Godspeed’,
Could never have foreseen...

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Categories: rank, death, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Kingdom Within Viii
You, my friend, 
are not a king or a prince 
neither are you a nobleman  
of 
a higher or lower rank, 
you are just...

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Categories: rank, heaven, light, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These Trees
"I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;"
. . .
"Nathless I have been a tree amid the...

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Categories: rank, allegory, life, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gods of Winds
A warring god of wind storms and lightening,
Rudra, rough looking, well built, braided hair
Golden in color, of firm limbs widening
With streaks of lightening and fearful...

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Categories: rank, god, mythology, wind,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member A Memorial To Martin Luther King Jr
Words would fail me if I might assay
To articulate the courage of this man.
The numerous facets of his dossier
Are subject for song in a distant...

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Categories: rank, death, dedication, faith, history,
Form: Rhyme
Buildin' Birds
Buildin’ Birds…

Your hands dart and weave
In, out, up.. then hover
Swoop right… then left

As simply as sight 
Of a birds dreamy flight
Floating to perch proud on...

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Categories: rank, animals, art, devotion, family,
Form: Narrative
New Never Is - Charles Wood
New never is...  
	(Charles Wood)
	
	
	
	We are but voyeurs, 
	peering through the iris 
	of the painter’s eye’s recording 
	details of a scene 
	not meant for...

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Categories: rank, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Flight
Squadron leader to his Sergeant.

Another fatality Felicity,
another regimental letter of commiseration,
another space to type in with a name a rank
another space to enter our lives,
on...

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Categories: rank, angst, death of a
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs