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Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in...

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Categories: senselessly, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Categories: senselessly, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blossoms On the Snow
(A Kyrielle Sonnet)

The tree stood trembling; red drops spilled
one Christmas day where one was killed.
Sweet daughter they would not see grow
left crimson blossoms on the...

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Categories: senselessly, christmas, red, tree,
Form: Kyrielle
Wolf Song
When air is still and dread silence suffocates
death violates esteemed sylvan sanctity—
whose jealous eye in malice deprecates,
absent demur, spurns all that ought to be.

Sussurus raised...

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Categories: senselessly, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Free
When I learned the truth,
the only thing I want to do
is to be free.
Free from emotion, free from
anything, free from
everything.

Free like a bird, free like
fruits...

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© James Hou  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: senselessly, dark, emotions, heartbreak, sad,
Form: Imagism



The Fool That Is You
What knowledge do you have of my home?
Have you taken a walk through the cemetery?
Walking on my tracks, footprints of eternity.
Have you read about the...

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Categories: senselessly, africa, anger, beauty, culture,
Form: Blank verse
A Look Inside
I came as an unaffected statue
Halloween depiction depicting everything
vaguely-leaving margins for misinterpretations
like hieroglyphics deciphered by illiterates
scawling crayon scratch book reports

Walk in these shoes
Feel the pavement...

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Categories: senselessly, introspectiontree, me, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These Are the Days
THESE ARE THE DAYS

These are the days of turmoil and sorrow
Days that mirror Sodom and Gomorrah
Days where our country is engaged in war
Days that God...

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Categories: senselessly, anxiety, bereavement, bible, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
When Evil Dances
When Evil dances,
good hearts are stopped,
grief swells into an ocean,
asked, why him? why her?
why did they have to die?

No answers are given, for none
can be...

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Categories: senselessly, allusion, angst, appreciation, death,
Form: Free verse
Remembering What I Long To Forget
Tolerant coaxing aided my first hundred starts
to rescue you from your own negative dark.
I failed and failed while you grew more hurdles.
My sanity got trapped...

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Categories: senselessly, anger, anxiety, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Mourning
Her loved tree trembled; red drops spilled
that Christmas morning she was killed.
The daughter they would not see grow
left crimson blossoms on the snow.

What horror that...

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Categories: senselessly, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bittersweet My Lover's Secret
Oh, where had my sweet love gone that morning
when later that day he’d met his death?
It was early January, cold and dreary
when he left unusually...

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Categories: senselessly, lost love,
Form: Metrical Tale
Johnny Got His Gun
Your patriotism leaves meat for the dogs, 
Your religious hope has left a carcass for the road. 
Pay your country with patriotism, 
“Johnny grab your...

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Categories: senselessly, politicalworld, religious, allah, religious,
Form: I do not know?
6-11
6 a.m

It is time to wake- 
After being bludgeoned by sleep.
A quick brush 
And a quick wash
Off to the bus-stop in a quick rush.

It’s another...

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Categories: senselessly, confusion, life, mystery, places,
Form: Narrative
Clue-Who Murdered the Easter Bunny
It’s been ten days, the Easter Bunny is gone with hardly a trace,
The Missus is inconsolable- an Easter basket-case,
Evidence in plastic bags, some fibers and...

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© Luke Irwin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: senselessly, funny, easter, easter,
Form: Burlesque

Book: Reflection on the Important Things