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Premium Member To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's Valentine
Wouldn't you rather~

Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...

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Categories: shoot for, anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member First Rose of May
How beautiful is what I see today
          peeking from the green
     ...

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Categories: shoot for, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: shoot for, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: shoot for, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: shoot for, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: shoot for, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Mimes At My Funeral
When my time is done and I am finally laid to rest
I don’t want to be recalled as one who lived life depressed

So as I...

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Categories: shoot for, funeral, funny, humor, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: shoot for, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Tale of Billy the Kid
William Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick

“Quien esta?”

Bang!  It’s over, 
you’re a legend now, 
Billy.

Born in Hell’s Kitchen...

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Categories: shoot for, character, death,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Famous Last Line
India (Original Poem)

I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the...

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Categories: shoot for, hindi, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Was My Sun
He was my sun, my one and only son,
attired as a cowboy for the day. 
And so I handed him a little gun
of fastened random...

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Categories: shoot for, war,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Poet Warrior
My Dear Enemy
Here I am
In full armor
My quill is full of arrows
My bow is taunt and ready fro battle
My horse is pristine and shiny black
I...

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Categories: shoot for, death, evil, image, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member You Never Know Till You Get To Know
One dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.

Once all...

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Categories: shoot for, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
All On a Summers Eve
The screen door droops lazily, slightly ajar
Crickets croon lullabies, heard from afar
Kid’s sticky faces, betray ice-cream bars
All on a summers eve

Legs peel off chairs, from...

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Categories: shoot for, nature, sea, seasons, uplifting
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Day Is Coming
I used to mow the lawn with joy.
     And trim up all the trees.
Prune the hedges, tend the garden. 
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Categories: shoot for, friendship, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme

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