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The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: scrip, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry



Hunger
With the Nepotism in my planet, essentially in my land, life compels
And factual morals are forgotten. Ancestors way of living are forbidden
By the rules we...

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Categories: scrip, anger, betrayal, celebration, conflict,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Message
I'm not the greatest of all-times, but when I'm done,
I'll be an all time great in this lifetime of mine
Like the late great who came...

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Categories: scrip, absence, analogy, conflict, confusion,
Form: Acrostic
A Note To Self - Based On India Arie's Song - Get It Together
A Note to Self
You and you alone 
can make the change
in your life to make it
brighter! 


Self
Self you need to try a different angle
Years of...

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Categories: scrip, forgiveness, hope, lost love,
Form: Didactic
From Plantation To Implantation


Looks like dem old ugly chains
got a new modern face
Beauty upgrade ... high-end cosmetic tech;
low-cost dressed in labor modest, 
minimum maintentance convenience
From da delta plain...

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Categories: scrip, imagery, slavery, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Pip Pip Hurray
Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. 
Guttersnipe snipe,
...

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© Amra Cau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrip,
Form: Verse
Guidebook
Today I questioned reason with rigor. 
I tried to find an explanation for my being.
A rhetorical question with mystifying vigour,
that opens doors to new ways...

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Categories: scrip, life,
Form: Rhyme
Goodnight Rome
Goodnight to our Rome with all your garrisons
and your streets that have become
as loveless as empty barracks.
For you I will never weep.
After all,
your Senators
Who made...

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Categories: scrip, anger, angst, anxiety, change,
Form: Free verse
Poetic License Sic Stet Amor
Alter-ego                        ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrip, allusion, art, language, love,
Form: Rhyme
Double Dose of Reality
Crack-ed craniums,  splintered personalities
Neural pathway of coping escape
led to a padded place for shattered identities

Disposable souls, which fell thru the cracks,
became ill weeds of...

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Categories: scrip, allegory, drug, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Not All Barbaras Are Home Wreckers
not all Barbaras are home wreckers, ladies
I heard the oldies and the goldie's of the sixties and seventies
Betty Wright and Peggy Scott sing them very...

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Categories: scrip, girlfriend-boyfriend, desire, love, may,
Form: Blank verse
Jagged Jaws of Smelted Steel Not the Title:
This poet decided against  
becoming a measly minced meaty morsel

undetected inauspicious augury 
     assigning  adept 
   ...

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Categories: scrip, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member One Minus One
By Curtis Johnson

You may never become a hero or a person of great renown; 
Or throw a ‘no hitter’ from a Major League pitcher’s mound.

Your...

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Categories: scrip, bible, birth, cheer up,
Form: Couplet
Scientific Method
Hypothesis:
     Hurt is
     Whether you want it
     Or not

Experimental Design:
   ...

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Categories: scrip, anger, drug, hurt, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Honing of Blades
He always loved knives. 
Blades flicking sharp like a snake's tongue.  
"Knives never lie," he said. 

The moment depends on honing. 
A ritual all...

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Categories: scrip, dark,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things