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Premium Member Anguish For Ratings
A very human touch to a story
with some zip to it.
The media is a heartless leach
to the many unfortunate souls suffering,
amongst the filth and chaos...

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Categories: ratings, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Mountain From a Pile
How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die 
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering...

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Categories: ratings, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kingkong
Our town had a monkey named Kong

who loved to croon and tweak a song.

   Though notes were a flop
    his...

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Categories: ratings, humor, imagination, music,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Helter Skelter
"I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles 

apocalyptic revelations spinning 'round inside my head/have me tossing keep me turning wide awake upon my...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ratings, confusion, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the Absurd

Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff...

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Categories: ratings, horror,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Leave It To Beaver: the Last Episode
Beaverish, feverish
hot Mrs. Cleaver wished
that her affair had not
given her clap. 

Fast Eddie Haskell, her
boy-toy, that rascal, his 
transmissibility
claims were all crap.

“Tickle me, pickle me,
say...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ratings, family, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Have More Respect For Yourself
*READ ALL BEFORE COMMENTING*

Lord forgive me she says she is on that sophisticated wine and dine, 
she says her lips are sweet, hips full bliss...

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Categories: ratings, for her, girl, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member American Idol
Hearing talented young voices provides such pleasure
In our quest for America’s latest idol treasure

Next year the judging panel will not be the same
The man we...

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Categories: ratings, funny, music, peoplemay,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Last Show
The stage was so spectacular I had to wear my glasses.
They only let a handful in with extraordinary passes;
written in a scripted font and lined...

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Categories: ratings, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1859
{1859}

there's more slaves now
than in 1859
slaves of the mind
slaves to entitlement
slaves to self inflicted failure and blame
slaves to ogres of division 
who
only want to bracket...

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Categories: ratings, addiction, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Perfectionist Is Listening
The Perfectionist is Listening

the rich are committing suicide
and taking us with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the masters of the universe
presently...

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Categories: ratings, slam, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Book - the Narrative Style
~The Book~
 ( Narrative / Short Story)


 Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everyone...

 Did you see what that young man did all this evening...

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Categories: ratings, beautiful, books, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Late Night Drivel
I had my 65th birthday on Monday.
Here are some things that were clarified for me by friends.
I hope it is a sign from God that...

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Categories: ratings, humor, satire, writing,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Chocolat Fantasies - With Chris Green
You are my life and in that I believe
	Always my love will be only for you

			Flattering though that sounds I must confess
			My first love is...

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Categories: ratings, chocolate, fantasy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Book
Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everybody... 

Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking  some...

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Categories: ratings, bible, books, conflict, wisdom,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things