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Selectively Chosen
I've chosen this path 
to take by my own free will 
I'm in no hurry   

at this cross section 
the road less travelled...

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Categories: selectively, appreciation, silence,
Form: Haiku



Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

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Categories: selectively, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those...

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Categories: selectively, black african american, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Time We Are Given
Inspired by photo:

The sun rises like a golden medallion
Turning water into a glowing scene
The smooth green hills welcome open space
Where freedom is found on the...

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Categories: selectively, day, hope, inspirational, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Intellectual Debris

Aimlessly walking across the wasteland 
of your mind,
you pick through the emotional trash 
with random intensity
	Crushed bottles of plastic thoughts;
half drank, half spilled on dozens...

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Categories: selectively, identity, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Moments of Reflection
I believe I fell asleep last year at the cusp of a new agenda.
As a new virus took root, I found myself eradicated from society
in...

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Categories: selectively, death, loss,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless...

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Categories: selectively, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination,
Form: Narrative
The Sun Is There To Rise
Door arrives door disappears
Door deprives door shares
Had doors been toward one way only
Life would have lost its lustre

With one hand life provides
With the other life...

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Categories: selectively, allusion, beauty, courage, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe - a Rant
I CAN’T BREATHE

I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to...

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Categories: selectively, abuse, corruption, environment, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member 911—underground Overtime Night Workers (Acrostic)
Nine Eleven—a dark day lives of many workers were stolen away
Individuals worked all night; stayed; without seeing the light of day
Nose to the grindstone below...

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Categories: selectively, history, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Dragons
Mystic sounds move slowly against  the face of the cragged purple mountains.  Towers of lost forgotten cities peek seductively through canopies of age...

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Categories: selectively, fantasy,
Form: Haibun
An Individual Society
As individuals, we are judged by other individuals. 
   We cast our own judgment… remembering.
   Seldom do our minds change once...

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Categories: selectively, anger, betrayal, change, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Leave You This
Should I take notice of what others say
and lose my style along the way.
I didn't study painting lest it disrupt
my innocent approach and method corrupt.

I...

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© Jan Terry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selectively, art, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Confessions of a Habitual Procrastinator
Selectively forgetful,
That's what my mother says -
When I'm called to do some work,
I escape in funny ways.

I'm running short of time now
But I'll tell you...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selectively, self,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Pages
I’ve read these empty pages long
In search of hidden dreams,
As treasure hunters pan for gold 
In empty water streams.

These lines where letters have not tread
These...

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Categories: selectively, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme

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