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Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: resistant, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Reaching Deepest Oceans ,Revised
My cherished one How far will I love you
As far as where moons dissolve in deep seas
Beyond the edge of a tide's crimson hue
where your...

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Categories: resistant, love,
Form: Free verse
If the Gods Aren'T Sick, Then Crazy They Must Be
I felt the touch of the breeze on my face from my sleep
Oh! With the morning sun, i woke with a flip
And there staring at...

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© White Sage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resistant, africa, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: resistant, dark, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: resistant, dark, halloween,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Dear Heart
Dear Heart,

You are the great fulcrum of the human machine 
So integral to keep us alive and leave us healthy 
I know you work incessantly...

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Categories: resistant, appreciation, health, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgiveness
where some people beg,
forgiveness is resistant.
have another look
at the Savior’s eyes— the sea
teeming with mercy and grace.


2/6/2021...

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Categories: resistant, christian,
Form: Tanka
Reaching Deepest Oceans
My cherished one How  far will I love you
As far as where moons dissolve  in deep seas
Beyond the edge of a tide's crimson...

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Categories: resistant, absence,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dinner Guest: Me
(After Langston Hughes)

I hadn’t known 
my infertility was their problem;
The adult table contracts
from a toddler’s wide wobble
while over a gavel — I mean, 
a rattle...

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Categories: resistant, emotions, longing, rude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Curious Spirit
She entertains fantasies
of unicorns and dragons.
And a curious spirit,
she oft thinks outside the box.

She is an illusionist;
famed for her vanishing act.
And breaking with tradition,
she cuts...

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Categories: resistant, beauty, character, emotions, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Retort To the Devil...
They call you the fallen one,with short tuffted curls
the one responsible for the chaos in the world
you may be the cause,as we live the effect
but...

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Categories: resistant, satirepride,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Existential Curiosity
Human ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer the arduous, unknown~ 
Resistant to understanding,...

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Categories: resistant, endurance, inspiration, science, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part Two
chieftains trade their loyalty behind the clouds
  high mountain king Carrantouhil commanding his Macgillycuddy Reeks
  men of begotten rank, scheming skulduggery
  secrets...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: resistant, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
The Smallest Shofar
The rabbi had a lot of trouble
Blowing the shofar.*
The congregation waited
But the sounds were just bizarre.

Some strangled bursts of air came out
But music was resistant.
The...

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Categories: resistant, holiday, jewish, music,
Form: Rhyme
Constipation Hell Worse Than Perdition
Less than twenty-four hours after dashing off a poem 
   explaining why i wanted to die
found me experiencing physical duress vis a vis,...

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Categories: resistant, angst, anxiety, blessing, conflict,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things