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The Russian English Russian
I am pure Russian and I am the bear
I have  deep dark eyes and black , black hair
Russian girls are very pretty and very...

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© Jim Joyce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retractions, funny,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Friendship Lost
Stilted words, hesitation, a pause
once best of friends, now over in an instant.
Strangled breath, stomach in knots
surreal out of body sensation.

Our bond so close, like...

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Categories: retractions, addiction, drug, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Rose-Red Delusional Grandeur
poetically fractured retractions
   gnashing night prayers, 
scribbling braille,
     written sideways
 dipped in holy water's resolution,
compromising statements
   ...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retractions, allegory, dance, metaphor, muse,
Form: Burlesque
Dancing Off Center Staged Delusions
Poetically fractured retractions
   gnashing night prayers, 
scribbling braille,
     written sideways
 dipped amid holy water retention,
compromising statements
   ...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retractions, hyperbole, imagery, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Polemics and Theatrics
Cult and trend and recalcitrance 
I'm from the streets and have seen things
But this I have to admit is beyond me
It's hunting season and they...

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Categories: retractions, analogy, assonance, poetry, political,
Form: Rhyme



Much Better Places
Much better places

It hides from the moon light
beneath the brush and thistle
of a desolate landscape of patchwork failures,
appearing one more time seething,
slicing open old wounds...

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Categories: retractions, anger, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not Our Founding Fathers Country
Not Our Founding Father's Nation 
By Franklin Price
7/7/2016

Not our founding father's nation 
That we're living in today
We're no longer using horses
To move ourselves along the...

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Categories: retractions, change, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Zoomanity
Zoomanity

Ponderous pretense 
blindsiding any ability to cope, to hope, the 
fabric of reality gropes, worn 
Torn, promises shredding like swilly alibis	
Hoovers and fakers 
backing into...

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© Dm Swanson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retractions, political
Form: Free verse
On the Edge...
Measure by humanity, the capacity is overwhelming.
We take for granted the nature which surrounds us. 
Gradually reaching the end- by business suits and their passion...

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Categories: retractions, introspection, life, passion, universe,
Form: Lyric
Sometimes
Sometimes....
I think that I might be allergic to life...

Like, every sarcastic remark,

Like every rude response,

Like every eye roll,
Every rebuttal, 
given about every infraction...

Isn't me being...

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Categories: retractions, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
This Could Be Coming Very Shortly To America
According to the 700 Club host's Gordon, "This could be coming very shortly to America, of course Congress would have to approve and President Biden...

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Categories: retractions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Retreat
That resting's sideways mat
and resting's oblations seem exact
no thought defined, but to extract
life's residual interact!

I can't but bide in wait
God's asking is my fate,
what e'er...

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Categories: retractions, hope, love, visionary, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Never Cease To Wonder
I Never Cease to Wonder
By Franklin Price
9/22/2109

I never cease to wonder 
How our leaders are today
How the truth's of little matter
In much of what they...

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Categories: retractions, allusion, america, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songs of Soul COS No 3: ABAB
Quest be, will we exist ... 'tis hit or miss
be of a lifetime. I gave no degree
of my retractions that constants amiss
my seeing yon desk...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retractions, analogy, change, character, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Delusional Variety
If idiocy and democracy could carry the blame..
If intent and purpose were one and the same
If love and life wasn't such an uneven game
Before even...

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Categories: retractions, change, inspiration, integrity, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs