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Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: rate, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wild Love
The blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.

" A love so true as...

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Categories: rate, garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rate, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Among Butterflies Sought
Is
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open...

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Categories: rate, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark,
Form: Concrete
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: rate, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme



You Are, I Am
open your doors
close all the windows
sleeping's such a bore
suffocate it with pillows

psh, i'm not hellbent
shut your mouth
it's called character development
WOOPS. broke routine again
and the poem's...

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Categories: rate, absence, beautiful, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Zebra Mystique
I want to ride a zebra

   and race the rays of radiance
       through heat-waves’ sailing gradients -

...

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Categories: rate, adventure, animal, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Luxury of Ordinary
Today was a good day

Today he walked on legs unbent
And erect spine of a man intent

On stilling the cacaphony of monotony
And smoothing the callouses of...

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Categories: rate, cancer, hope, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lions Led By a Donkey
I could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their...

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Categories: rate, death, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Butt Crack
My butt crack 
Is quite a split 
It supports the rest of me 
when I sit 
you thought I was gonna say something else didn't...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rate, funny, happiness, life, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...

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Categories: rate, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hurricane Eileen - the Storm
A dedication to Eileen Ghali
for her prolific production of
inspiring work

Willow Tree = Keyboard
And that’s your only clue

Hurricane Eileen - The Storm

As darkness drew nearer
Light falling...

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Categories: rate, dedication,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I, the Clone
I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a...

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Categories: rate, humorous, me, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member One Kiss
WITH  JUST ~ONE  KISS

I rise, like fire in your eyes.
Feel the burn, as I discharge my flames.
Like Frankenstein, 
I will make you come...

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Categories: rate, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Sunsets In the Blues
.He walked in silence

to the corner of my heart

He lit a candle~ fire

in a room once damp and dark

His words were gently spoken

His love was...

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Categories: rate, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

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