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Browned-Cents
BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has...

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Categories: receivers, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme



Daylight Robbery
Last night I stole a little - from time.
Don’t worry he’s got plenty on his hands
You could call it daylight robbery, but that wouldn’t be...

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Categories: receivers, fun, light, morning, sun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Crow Bar
"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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Categories: receivers, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mortal Givers
MORTAL GIVERS

Who are we but mortals?
That we should be so bold,
So presumptuous, so arrogant
As to leave the poor in the cold?
Should we not think of...

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Categories: receivers, giving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only You Knew
If only you knew the feel of a zephyr,
With its current swooping around hillsides
Ruffling the spruce trees everywhere,
Or descend downwards towards verdant vales
Where flowers bloom...

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Categories: receivers, abuse, food, humanity, ocean,
Form: Free verse



Do You Remember Too

      Butterfly bless dances from flower to flower, 
sipping nectar with its slender proboscis imitating Bacchus with prospectus,
direct to us.

Streaks...

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Categories: receivers, art,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Saints Go Marching In
Two great teams take the field
In the end one must yield

Does destiny not await fate
Two quarterbacks who are great

As giants collide on the line
Receivers catch...

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Categories: receivers, sports
Form: Couplet
Remembering Tv of the 1950s
Remembering TV of the 1950s

By Elton Camp

About TV, this little account is told
From when I was twelve years old
Because it was along about then
When TV...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: receivers, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Drug Addict
This feedlot of ancestral glitter
how tiresome, now a  rummaged litter
a mitigated financed quitter
the addict, driven to mass rid stir!

As nature's boundaries pray beauty
the homeward...

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Categories: receivers, addiction, drug,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Probe 3
Cast a glance to the comet up high
with a name sounding awkward and dry
          (in the...

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Categories: receivers, science,
Form: Limerick
Blaine Me
I only be looking down now, looking inside myself now,
not head set in defeat but reflection, not the thoughts but the actual events that happened,...

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Categories: receivers, slam,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 2
Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel...

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Categories: receivers, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Climatic Parable
Once within our time,
SkyPrince and SunGod talk,
as usual,
endlessly actually,
sending their radiant messages
out toward mutually gravitating receivers,
no Yins allowed to pitch;
just catch integrative flow.

SkyPrince wonders if...

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Categories: receivers, allegory, earth, earth day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving Thanks
Favors taken for granted, often will cease to be granted.
People won't keep giving, giving, and more giving,
If the receivers aren't willing to at least recognize
The...

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Categories: receivers, thanks,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Ballerina Stance - Repost
Amidst a cacophony of sounds, discordant they're not
Through progressive ears we're internally sought

We, well we await, we await black drapes
Lights are our signal, to enjoy...

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Categories: receivers, art, beauty, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things