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Premium Member The Elephant and the Ant
There once was a little mighty ant
Who was extravagant and arrogant 
Known to be exorbitantly militant 
She was so combatant and petulant
They nicknamed her My...

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Categories: recant, allegory, animal, change, cute,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Let Me Translate
Let me translate
My love for you
From written.... to spoken....to touched
From syllable sensuality
To physical functionality
From verbal to nonverbal virtual reality

Or better yet
Let me translate them into...

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Categories: recant, language, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Eve of Old
A sacred song of long ago
is sung with reverence, high and low
Sweet harmonies that the angels hear
is the music of a Midnight Clear
A velvet night...

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Categories: recant, happiness, music,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Dead Man and the Loud Hen
I shall delete my existence says the dead man
	No more do I breathe	
	No more shall I rant
	Although often I recant

I shall delete all my poems...

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Categories: recant, children, hilarious, muse,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Forever To Endeavor
There is a phrase of words be praised
I’ve heard somewhere before;
Down amongst the dirt and weeds
Of things we most deplore. 

Which rob us of our...

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Categories: recant, inspirational, introspection, life, words,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Little Land That's Built On Sand
There is a little land that's built on sand in the Middle East
   To listen to the world complain, you'd think it was...

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Categories: recant, america, immigration, international, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wormwood Portfolio
"The Wormwood Portfolio"



Reams of stories
riddled with worms
wood for burning
all the children
cover their eyes
tears smoked 
into the lungs
gender fluid
propheticising 
bitter water
electric brains
chipped like 
fine-boned China
downloading 
overloads...

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Categories: recant, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pounding of the Hammer
“I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.”

             ...

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Categories: recant, dark, halloween,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member It wasn't all that long ago, The State of the Union
It wasn't all that long ago when covid
choked the world with it's grasp.
People became anxious, some belligerent, when
asked to merely mask.
While others stock piled toilet...

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Categories: recant, america, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Feminist "can'T"
Can't tell us can't
For our immense pleasure of a broad recant

Cause we know we can walk on the ceiling
While we know just what is the...

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Categories: recant, on work and workinglife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Mary
Mary
Jesus
Magdalene
Pure white Virgin cloth
Crosses, blood red where burned and lost
The Romans they had blind eyes
To the new world he would soon be born and rise
Soldier’s...

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Categories: recant, allah, angel, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Trusted Servant
All the leaves turned and waved
Before the darkness turned them grey
And buried 'neath the scarlet sins
Were skies so red the poppy grins

"Heed not your torment"...

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Categories: recant, allegory
Form: Couplet
Premium Member You'Re My Light - Davedas Concrete Candle Style
~ You  Are My  Light  ~
( Daveda's  Hybrid  Concrete Candle)



~O~



 Dear 
 Lord 
 You're 
 My Light 
 You...

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Categories: recant, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living In the Middle East
You put him in a cage
That pilot you shot down
Pour gasoline on him
And set him ablaze

And the world is silent...

That seventeen year old girl
Writhes on...

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Categories: recant, violence, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Sunset
Sequestered from mundane oration
Until this spell from Earth’s rotation
Meanders from my frozen gaze.
Melting clouds in pastel plush,
Evanescent waning rays,
Recant my vision’s wanderlust.

Slivered shards of ruby...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recant, sky, sun,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things