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Premium Member Ode To Occupy Wall Street
The middle class here can't be saved
When 0.001% act so depraved
Their wealth without end
These royals* still pretend
Did not come from us—their 
enslaved**


*The Royals: CEOs, Banksters,...

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Categories: recipients, happiness, life, peace,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Pilgrim Lips
devout pilgrim lips
in discovery's journey
leave love offerings
sacred shrines of her body
devotion's recipients

Jade Celeste...

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Categories: recipients, sensual,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Sol's Spectacular
S - Sol reigns supreme in ebony space 
P - planets orbit in a cosmic race
E - each determined never to embrace.	
C - Comet tails...

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Categories: recipients, beautiful, earth, imagery, imagination,
Form: Acrostic
Why I Love Poems: the Satori Effect
Why do I love poetry? Well, it's none of the usual: beautiful words, lofty thoughts, noble sentiments. I can get all that from Tolstoy or...

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Categories: recipients, allusion, analogy, appreciation, creation,
Form: Prose
The Minstrel and the Rubbish
The minstrel and the rubbish
	To a homeless in N.Y., who had a guitar to keep him company
        ...

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Categories: recipients, allegory, faith, hope, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Downtown In the Summer
A summer's evening stroll
in the downtown.
Tiny flying bugs
maneuver in the wind.
A hobo with one hand
strums a guitar,
his traumas grate against the air
as his style
-the blues-
echoes...

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Categories: recipients, summer, urban,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Your Job Retirement
You are a very precious treasure more than a golden gem
Working so hard for many years serving your fellowmen
You shared your knowledge, strengths and whole...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recipients, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Unpublished Anonymous
I have stories in my heart I want to tell 
Some of people in paradise and others in hell
I know all the characters in my...

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Categories: recipients, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fruit Cakes
Puzzled are the recipients of a fruit cake from Santa Claus this year!
Seems that Yuletide ain't complete 'less you git one to bring you cheer!

Fruit...

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Categories: recipients, food, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Metadata
remember it's not the "actual" data
it's only the metadata, but we
never met a data we didn't love
there's treasure in detritus debris

with intense Holmesian determination
we'll be...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recipients, computer, internet, introspection, society,
Form: Quatrain
Sister Faith
A true daughter,
Delightful.
A polished gem in the Good Master's crown.
Another soul of the Virtues demonstrates
Further the role of Faith in our Lord's realm
Of the here...

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Categories: recipients, appreciation, beauty, blessing, courage,
Form: Free verse
Chiraq
Chiraq

Date: Sun, Nov 15 2015 at 9:22 PM

("Killings")
("Victims")
"Imprisoned"
Highest ("Statistics")
In the ("System")
And of ("Disease")
Feeding the belly of the Beast "Obese"
Separated from Fathers & "Mothers"
Become "Hustlers"
Of the...

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Categories: recipients, how i feel, lost,
Form: Free verse
A Precious Gift
A little girl came wandering out
She was dressed up to the nines
Like a mung bean munching hippy
But her father claimed she was divine.

She glowed and...

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Categories: recipients, encouraging, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Nathan's Song
*Nathan's Song

Nathan loved to be playin' baseball
Talk with his friends everytime they'd call
He would rather be doing for others---any day.
Nathan loved the lake in the...

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Categories: recipients, death, dedication, high school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O What a Night
O What A Night


My name is Benny, and I was one of those shepherds who were watching over the sheep the night that Jesus was...

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Categories: recipients, angel, bible, childhood, christian,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs