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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 exciting bare
Straight and tall  with  features very fair
They  are smart and have lots of brains  
And...

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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 Jonathon and David
I saw, yet ignored a fragile weakness
believed her never ending hurt and pain
escaping ills, prescription pills, a ready...

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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
     of disbelief's proclamation
spinning music the color
     of nakedly sick psycho, yet
burnished souls keep on ticking
...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retractions, allegory, dance, metaphor, muse,
Form: Burlesque

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Dancing Off Center Staged Delusions
Poetically fractured retractions
   gnashing night prayers, 
scribbling braille,
     written sideways
 dipped amid holy water retention,
compromising statements
     of disbelief's proclamation
spinning music the color
     of nakedly sick psycho, yet
burnished souls keep on ticking
...

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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 are all in
Pontificating politicians demanding penance
Pointing fingers at pimps and king pins
Attracting the attention of sharp shooters

It’s a dreary mess...

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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 once healed,
blood thirsty appetites favored

Slick but imaginatively unkempt,
disguised as someone you want to know,
lurking in the reaching shadows,
leaving muddied tracks,...

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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 way

Autos, planes and satellites
Make this country very small
The World is not much bigger
All is at our beck and call

Information instantaneous
Don't...

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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 their mangled apocalypse,
can only stammer and stare
Movers and shakers denying the twofers mindset, all those 
simulated regrets getting the glares
The...

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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 for currency--
Look around and observe this earth- Sounds, water, trees, birds--all are of great worth...
The extinction of resources allows some...

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Categories: retractions, introspection, life, passion, universe,
Form: Lyric
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 would have to sign it."

In Sera Lanka the protesters burned the presidential palace and are enjoying the presidential pool causing...

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Categories: retractions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
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 snarky or difficult, 
But an allergic reaction. 

Like every angry, eye twitching response,  is just another allergic reaction inducing...

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Categories: retractions, feelings,
Form:
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 the cost or blessing's loss
 insolvent or belate!

In thee now only move
to strength as His denote,
no turning opposite as groove
does...

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Categories: retractions, hope, love, visionary, perspective,
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 an intimacy
be measured as the worth of passages.
A ponderous virtue partook a smile
that placed atop lap held, arched assuages,
instantly noted,...

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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 a given name, it goes from whence it came. 

If morals and law walked hand in hand. 
If time and...

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Categories: retractions, change, inspiration, integrity, life,
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 say

How they're using innuendo
And untruths to overcome
Never saying how they'll lead us
Are, we the people, that damn dumb?

The media goes...

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Categories: retractions, allusion, america, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme

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