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Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: retract, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retract, moving on,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member That Dawn, a Goddess Found Me: Collaboration With Robert Lindley
An early morn mist that fadeth away
revealeth the goddess that stole this heart.
In radiance, her hair shone as blazing gold
soft-born winds welcomed her that fine...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retract, fantasy, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await
(I.)
Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await

Ripe are swelled grapes upon glowing vine
my darling on love's bounty we shall dine
in our paradise rests more than a...

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Categories: retract, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
A Gift For Thee Hater
For your penny's worth of thought,
Please take two cents worth back.
For the destruction that you brought
With all that empathy you lack,
For your narrow vision tunnel
That's...

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Categories: retract, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Intimate Truth
She walks with dreams, deep passions woo,
Into euphoric ambience of a moonlit night
Carrying sweet secret, so intimate and true,
Sprouting in her womb blossoms of delight.

Though...

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Categories: retract, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Poets Are An Illumination In This Dark World
Why Poets Are An Illumination In This Dark World


Gifting poetic words, let the flow be of friendly act
and not darker falsehoods that so many fear...

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Categories: retract, art, creation, inspiration, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Sister Please Forgive Me
We were both so young full of spirit and fun
She's the Indian I'm the Cowgirl as we move along the ground just fooling around
Running through...

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Categories: retract, childhood, death, forgiveness, grave,
Form: Free verse
Smiles and Cries
It doesn't matter what you say because I'm going insane 
I've put a bullet in my brain,  what's the name of the game that...

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Categories: retract, depression, hip hop, june,
Form: Rhyme
Jack
She spent
her evening with a
friend named Jack.  Jack
stood out like a volunteer, making
no apology for himself (though he forward
marched through her life like a
soldier's...

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© Chad Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retract, introspectionlife,
Form: Lyric
Big Ego
He's got a big ego,
he keeps offending people,
he scoops the same scoop,
and round and round we loop,
until the bubble pops
and the world sees him flop,
reject...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retract, hip hop, life, perspective,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Assumption, Presumption , Gumption
ASSUMPTION, PRESUMPTION , GUMPTION

I don’t enjoy been on a plane,
I find it scary and a tad mundane,
But last time I flew,
I sat next to a...

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Categories: retract, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Battle of the Gods
In Monolithic monuments are the bringers of the derelict dawn
I see many idolatrous idols, forged in ancient bibliothecal Babylon
Within worshipful winds, that carry words of...

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Categories: retract, abuse, desire, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Three Stooges
THE THREE STOOGES

With their lunatic style of slapstick
These old favourites made their mark
Bangs on head, eye pokes and **** kicks
Were transformed to works of art

But...

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Categories: retract, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'shifting Process'
Elements need to shift if you desire transformation
You have to do things; at times in different ways 
You have to be willing to try new...

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Categories: retract, change, growth, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs