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Premium Member The Yield
Night rewrites day, transforms the blues
with ink-wash, urges me to forget 

grapples, tasks, drudgery,  
hard surfaces and hardened people as all things 

soften, lighten,...

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Categories: rewrites, moving on, peace, sleep,
Form: Free verse



Etok the Shufflebutt
Oh, he is but Etok the Shufflebutt! 
So cheerful like a morn sun is this man, 
whose memory’s like fish, but he’s no nut. 

He...

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Categories: rewrites, funny, imagination, people
Form: Villanelle
Mandela Effect
in the bayou state full of race 
lies a culture with no face 

colored fear and hatred paints 
graffiti minds new orleans saints 

mandela effect...

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Categories: rewrites, absence,
Form: ABC
If I'D Picked Up a Snooker Cue
If I’d picked up a snooker cue, when I picked up a pen;
and then gone on to build a break of eight or nine or...

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Categories: rewrites, funny, humorous, satire, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Thinking
Morning soothes my heart and delights my thoughts
Whispers of a misty moment rights my thoughts

Buttery sunshine bestows joy through my life
As hues of lavender laughter...

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Categories: rewrites, inspirational, morning, nature,
Form: Ghazal



You Say You Want a Revolution
You say you want a revolution?
                   ...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrites, angst, change, freedom, political,
Form: Couplet
Me and My Boy Funom Sonnet
 
My boy and me.

On the bed my pal sat drawing,
My boy,one gem,"it's me time"
I hug him,"why not art making",
Duo get a key job to...

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Categories: rewrites, baby, childhood, children, funny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member O Earth, Sweet Earth , Forgive My Follies
O Earth, Sweet Earth, Forgive My Follies



O' earth , earth , sweet earth forgive my follies, 
 ten thousand days of roaming upon thy bosom
...

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Categories: rewrites, earth, forgiveness, nature, song,
Form: Free verse
The Heart, the Hand
With shaking hand I write in dimmed light
Strings of words robust burst and slip from my pen
With a grave heart I write
With a frail heart...

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Categories: rewrites, write, words, heart, heart,
Form: Free verse
By the Subway
Sitting by the steps of the old avenue subway
In his ragged long sleeves shirt, he completes my day
In my year long rides, he never missed...

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Categories: rewrites, blessing, feelings, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Many More

Tears fill our eyes these winter years;
our spring it seems was long ago...
we look ahead with deepened fears.
Tears fill our eyes these winter years
as days...

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Categories: rewrites, age, feelings, life, together,
Form: Triolet
What Love Can Do
Love performs 
everything it preaches.
Love reforms
everyone it reaches.
Love transforms
everything it touches.

Love rewrites
sour and sweet stories.
Love ignites
golden gain and glories. 
Love unites
moments and memories.

Love commands
respect and...

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Categories: rewrites, desire, devotion, emotions, leadership,
Form: Lyric
Time In a Daydream
I put some Janis Joplin on
 and slipped away out of time and present reality
 taking a little piece of my heart into the day;
mixing...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrites, age, change, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Past
Our past is a highway
Flush with mile markers
That measure life travels,
Some unworthy of remembrance;

As life's pages systematically turn
The future becomes liquidated
And past increases;

Nothing is ever...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrites, health,
Form: Free verse
The Rewrite Daily News a Never New and Never Ending Story
"Every day is a page to write a new story". 
And I have rewritten us every day for the last 20 years
We break up…but we...

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Categories: rewrites, lost love, wine,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs