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Premium Member In Red's Silent Fury
Metallic city howls like a wounded animal
scraped by nocturnal vigils
of grandchildren and elders
emaciated like tuberculosis lungs
gasping from chug-chugs of tobacco soot...
and the face of a...

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Categories: scraped, anger, angst,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Land of Opportunity
I take my hat off for the flag
  I stand up straight; let others sag
I get all weepy for Old Glory
  thinking of...

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Categories: scraped, america, cry, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Couplet
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: scraped, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Truth To Truth
TRUE ...

You know not those dark
Places, mine, the dull, black
Chasms that hold a mind
When it's bare - stark and

Keen and cold ... when it's
Left with...

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Categories: scraped, conflict, devotion, heartbreak, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Ambush, Resume
I walked with ease
a comfortable moment after sunset,
I wore clean, comfortable skin
and comfortable, casual attire.
Past glowing shopfronts
on clean, wide pavements,
warm evening slowly darkened,
a good time...

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Categories: scraped, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Choice Words
Write words
that will be scraped
into a stone
by a rebellious kid
who refused
to be owned
Write words
that will make
a hopeless sinner
never feel alone
Write words 
that will move
a homeless...

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© Chris Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scraped, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
Am I Turning Into a Lizard Serial Killer
Hmmm, where do I start? With deep sighs, I am sighing right now.
I just finished burying 2 lizards, and my heart is heavy...

Let me back...

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Categories: scraped, angst, animal, how i
Form: Narrative
Yellow Winged Angel
I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness, 
without want to weep and moan,
He...

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Categories: scraped, abuse, angel, angst, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
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Those who lash out when the heart speaks
avoid the many mirrors reflecting themselves
For in this rippled dream,
where perfect does exist
and mistakes are long gone like...

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Categories: scraped, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Oysters
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Pin 4198: Disney Gallery - Alice in Wonderland Series (Baby Oyster)
Variations on The Walrus and the Carpenter"  a narrative poem by...

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Categories: scraped, fantasy, fun, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Love Lasagna
She plunks down a plate of egg rolls
Man, oh man, do these greasy pieces of heaven take tolls
On my heart, dear Mama
Shows me love with...

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Categories: scraped, family, mother, love,
Form: Free verse
My Least Favorite Things
To the tune of.. “These are a Few of my Favorite Things“.

Bass boomers spreading their mis’ry in traffic
Craving attention and driving me spastic,
Not caring an...

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Categories: scraped, funny, me, light, green,
Form: Rhyme
The Raving
From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.

Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men 
Who...

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Categories: scraped, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bougainvillea
Bold, bright...unmistakable 
she dresses in vivid pinks or purples
sometimes splashes of oranges or golds.
Her lavish flashes of flowers shine
and yet...
…brilliant bougainvillea has 
her dark secrets.

Devoid...

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Categories: scraped, beauty, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Male Bonding
Apart from our nice 3 piece suite the cat has clawed and shredded
	 it's knocked over a figurine that lies there prone, beheaded.
	I'm quite adept...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scraped, funny,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things