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Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: relatives, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Play On Words
Write here, right now. Write now, right here!
Capture the moment while it's near 
and seize the day. You now know how: 
write now, right here;...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatives, word play, words,
Form: Quatrain
Ravens and Castles
...inspired by and in dedication to ~  Victor Buhagiar, Robert Lindley (my mentors) and the rest of the PoetrySoup Family...thank you for your kindness...

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Categories: relatives, dark, deep, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry Recital
Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...

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Categories: relatives, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rachel's Special Challenges
Rachel’s birth brought early challenges
    Surgery closed a hole in her heart
         Learning disabilities...

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Categories: relatives, child, education,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thanksgiving Day Twenty-Twenty
Alas, hordes of ravenous relatives from very far and even near,

Won't be celebratin' at dear old Grandma's bountiful board this year,

Since the corona virus pandemic...

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Categories: relatives, humorous, thanksgiving day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where There's a Will There's a Relative
They crawl out of the woodwork
Shedding lots of crocodile tears
Grieving for an ancient relative
They’ve not visited for many years
‘Auntie Annie’ is barely warm
But now you...

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Categories: relatives, funeral, humorous, money, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Categories: relatives, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Wind That Blows Loneliness
The wind blows softly over the lonely,
The suffering think of themselves only.
A world of chaos, racism, and turmoil,
Utmost egomanias spoil our toil.

An old man groans,...

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Categories: relatives, pain, poverty,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Along the Shady Paths of Vivid Green
And the cemetery was fresh and vivid green 
when we took our bikes down the paths of it -
past stones and trees and mausoleums and...

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Categories: relatives, sad,
Form: Narrative
Rainy Days and Mondays
It's Monday
The day of the dead leaves and fresh flowers
The dry and wet hours
Like the other days
Of life and death
The desert and the lake
Thousands of...

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Categories: relatives, color, memory, pain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conservative - What I Stand For
~ I am a Conservative
        Here is who I am
        ...

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Categories: relatives, identity, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Pile On--Let's Blame America
America, trillions in debt
gives to many nations!
Alas, what for, we are seen
as a selfish nation?

Homeless populate the streets 
of LA.(thanks to governor Newsom)!
Yet don't you...

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Categories: relatives, america, angst, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going For Pinktober
Their murkiness has begun, an agony may follow,
Yet, you can see their faint smiles with their eyes losing their glow;
There’s a cap on their head...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: relatives, dedication, health, october,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Cow, Ii's Bigfoot
Living near the Lumni Indians 
In our own Puget Sound
Is a family of humanoids.
Few folks know they’re around.

They come down from nearby mountains
To escape the...

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Categories: relatives, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs