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Premium Member Jailbreak At Milton Creek

...There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail 
That day Queeny Holly and her gang rode into town, guns blazing ......

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Categories: recognised, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member I Can'T Go On Without You Emotive Write

...The poem must begin with .. And the cemetery was then continue with your poem

And the cemetery was shrouded in a veil of early morning mist
which rose eerily from the grey gran......

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Categories: recognised, bereavement, dark, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Free verse

Ashes

...Hell's perpetual fires
Burning up my frenzied desires
I'm gurgling up a rebellion
Can you feel it frothing?

You sure have claws
That scratched my skin raw
The blood is everywhere
Do you see ......

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Categories: recognised, death, deep, mystery, ,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Stars Of Clarity

...
I still reminisce when it was raining incessantly at 3:55 a.m. in the nascent ticks of time on a wistful wednesday. My skin felt the spark of crying hail and maybe, the snow-storms melted t......

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Categories: recognised, blessing, dream, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Haibun

Premium Member Sage speak

...Oh
hermit,
we have heard
that you have seen,
that which is unseen,
namely the face of God
and that too in broad daylight,
so with folded hands, we request 
you to please teach us all ......

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Categories: recognised, spiritual,
Form: Etheree

Mother Teresa and I

...Mother Teresa
She is the mother of every poor people, injured people, ordinary people...

Always we remember the great news
'Mother Teresa will get the Nobel Peace Prize.'
It was one of the b......

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Categories: recognised, feelings, love, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose Poetry


Jonson's Ghost

...The inn had gone to waste: I’d sold it off in haste.
Awaking in the gloom, as orbs lit up the room,
I recognised the ghost of Jonson, the old host.
I said, ‘I thought you’d come’ - and poured myse......

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Categories: recognised, business
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

She Was Never the Girl

...Little did she know, she was never "The girl"
No matter what she does, or what happens.
It was not her, it will not be her.
Those fairy times were just a mirage,
A disguise to cover his scars.

......

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Categories: recognised, anxiety, beauty, cheer up,
Form: Epic

Nothingness

...
“Nothingness” 

Words 
lines drawn 
unending

dusk 
to
dawn

characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind 

where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows 
......

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Categories: recognised, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Brideshead Revisited

...I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I was an architectural painter and was very successful too
And after ......

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Categories: recognised, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Chuck Jennings

...

The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure them by saying that everything would be fine
......

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Categories: recognised, america, death, soldier, world
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Garfield and Jon

...Garfield, a loveable famous, lazy cat,
Who likes to eat and eat, that’s why he’s fat,
Jon his companion, Garfield’s friend or foe dude,
On call twenty four seven, to give Garfield food!
The world......

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Categories: recognised, cat,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Au-Revoir Dearest Mummy

...Something’s in life will always haunt us but sharing lessens the burden

AU-REVOIR DEAREST MUMMY

Hi Mom,
Please switch your computer on,
Wherever you are,
Perhaps you are that
Brilliant star......

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Categories: recognised, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Across a Crowded Room

...Beauty is something we see
with individual eyes,
deep within our soul,resides
attraction,waiting ,asleep
yet longing to be aroused;

Our need to be recognised,
a desire to recognise,
reciproc......

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Categories: recognised, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Tribute To Linda

...Not 
Long 
I 
Know 
this 
'lady' 
This 
lady 
names 
LINDA 
On 
this 
amiable 
platform
Calls 
POETRYSOUP
Not 
Long 
I 
started 
to 
write
On 
this 
platform
And 
not 
long......

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Categories: recognised, caregiving, tribute, work, write,
Form: Free verse
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