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Premium Member Summer Solstice
This was when the whole world measured time
This is when the light would turn around
This is where the past would come undone
and the spinning earth...

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Categories: shorten, history, people, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Enlightened By Anima
I bridged the chasm and entered ambiguous halls
Climbed over barbed fences inside my mind's walls
To glimpse the core of how men and women relate
Among flowering...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shorten, appreciation, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring
Spring


      When the Season turns and Old Winter spent,

      Sudden colour blossoms on budding trees.

...

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Categories: shorten, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sentinel
A sun reminds them through a dark cloud, 
long before we are even asleep, or the moon is awake
and they reply, like guardians of simmering,...

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Categories: shorten, light, night,
Form: Free verse
Struggling
12/12/19
"Struggling"

I've been struggling
Doing things that are puzzling
It's rather troubling
How much liquor I've been guzzling

Shiiiit
I admit

I'm not proud at all
I got a problem with alcohol
It'll be...

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Categories: shorten, dark, poetry, rap, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Might As Well Have a Good Laugh
When you are in trouble
and start seeing double
you might as well have a good laugh

Cause sorrow and crying
and excessive sighing
can shorten your lifespan by half

If...

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Categories: shorten, encouraging, funny, humorous, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Says - She Says
[He says]Never say ?I can't? 

     Why on Earth not meet defeat
     admit you're seldom right
 ...

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Categories: shorten, introspection, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
God's Shephard
I know sometimes your way seems dark and dreary
I know sometimes your body may feel worn and weary.
And yet you press on, you keep spreading...

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Categories: shorten, faith, inspirational, life, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gods of Man's Vanity Demanding Intolerance
Gods Of Man's Vanity Demanding Intolerance


False realities fed to the masses
Another ghost ships sails the seas
Knowing not, yet their lie passes
Escaping truth's majestic pleas
God of...

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Categories: shorten, art, beautiful, conflict, spiritual,
Form: Acrostic
Farewell
5/12/17


Go ahead and tell
Hide in your shell
Or run away like a gazelle
Don't like your intent and what you try to sell
Farewell
Catch an L
Rot away and...

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Categories: shorten, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bridge To a Memory
Walks we took, across the bridge and down the ridge we'd climb
He'd catch himself to shorten steps, while I'd be stretching mine
With fields to plow,...

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Categories: shorten, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Gramps and Me and the Birds and the Bees
Walks we took, across the bridge and down the ridge we'd climb
He'd catch himself to shorten steps, while I'd be stretching mine
With fields to plow,...

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Categories: shorten, family, loveday, love,
Form: Rhyme
Time
We can see it 
smell it 
hear it 
Touch it 
taste it
love it 
hate it
fear it
feel it
prolong it
shorten it
mock it 
curse it 
embrace it
track it
lose...

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Categories: shorten, encouraging, life, time,
Form: Other
Convicted
This situation seems quite dense
But don't make half the sense
But it happened two times in cadence
I'll try to shorten it so I won't trespass on...

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Categories: shorten, life, love, heart, pain,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Slang Men’s Names in Footles- Part 6
He’s always So Behind

Hasten,
Mason

Heavenly Guy

Sky glow
Milo

A Great Guy

Maxwell
acts swell

Sure Not Dickie Nixon

Tricky
Micky

Spoiled Guy

Bratty
Mattie

Why We Follow

Moses
Shows us

Such a Cheerful Fellow

Jaunty
Monty

Hope he Doesn’t want Kids

Sterile
Merrill

The Stoic

Spartan
Martin

He Keeps...

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Categories: shorten, men,
Form: Footle

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