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Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: responses, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme



Loneliness
People milling around I  do not notice them, 
my face is turned to hide my loneliness,
Am walking in my own despair
No one else intrudes...

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Categories: responses, loneliness,
Form: Verse
Emotions In Motion
Pleasure threw a party for her friends to come,
she sent invitations out to each and every one.
There were 10 responses and Pleasure did assume
it would...

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Categories: responses, funny, emotions, joy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Audra Cady To Daughter: a Spoon River Poem
I didn't always adhere to the warnings of the experts
		who declared nothing beyond time-outs should be used
		to correct a child’s behavior—that parents must not,
		even temporarily,...

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Categories: responses, daughter, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Update Again and Thank You All
Hi Everyone. 

First of all I just want to thank you all for your kindness, support, encouragement and prayers. It has made such a positive...

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Categories: responses, appreciation, care, friendship, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Artist
The ordinary water that she sips
transforms into a sparkling crimson juice
of cherries, cold and sweet, upon her lips.
The blues she sees are sapphire, greens, chartreuse,
and...

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Categories: responses, art,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Seven ''Deadly'' Sins
Oh pride, pride, I do have pride
Pride of my country, pride in my siblings, and my nephews and niece
I am proud of me too, I...

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Categories: responses, anger, emotions, life, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Best Comfort From the Sick Bay
Every sight of this angel takes his thoughts back
the nurse’s suit to half way her legs sweeps his lustful track.

In his fantasy, she plays the...

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Categories: responses, i love you, kiss,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Brainstorm
a diabolical grace ...

dark, deep, warm-black arms of
an endless night wrap me ...
head thrown back in abdication -
arms spread wide in surrender,
falling backward, back, back,...

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Categories: responses, abuse, addiction, analogy, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Soup Tragedy
Since Kash revealed "her" secret, I have turned red.
All day I cried onto the pillow on my bed.
I think the whole true awful tale needs...

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Categories: responses, funny, me, funny, hope,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Ecotherapist Conventions
Truth is a feather 
pushed off to the other side.

Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.

OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and...

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Categories: responses, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Happy Birthday
Hail from top of birth birch tree,
A birdie sings merrily;
Prancing to and fro on each branch,
Pink, yellow, white flowers on its beak are clamped;
Yearning everyone’s...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: responses, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Questions of Balance: a Jeremiad
QUESTIONS OF BALANCE: A JEREMIAD

Why is it at 70 politicians are still underage
To assume political offices	
And at 30 youths are overage to begin a professional...

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Categories: responses, abuse, africa, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Soul
I believe- and there will be many who disagree, and
my belief is this- when we are born a soul is given to us
that first cry...

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Categories: responses, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
In My Stride
It's time now for me to start a new,
I have to as all my poems were removed.
Locked out of my account by poetrysoup,
I was excluded...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: responses, character, endurance, growth, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs