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Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: sling, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: sling, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolve Problems Through Compromise
Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
But I have no desire to do others harm.
        ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sling, conflict, fate, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
From a Hospital Bed
FROM A HOSPITAL BED
Wordancer

Even if I’m dizzy with an aching head, 
I must not disturb the others in the beds
In this hospital ward where not...

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Categories: sling, childhood, depression, family, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Freedom of Poetry
An appeal of poetry
is its lack of rules...

though not to be loose
as a plucked goose – 

without bare essentials
for flight

struts of logic,
living words
that excite with...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sling, addiction, blessing, freedom, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Defuse and Compromise
Not one to run when I hear an alarm,
          I have no desire to do others...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sling, conflict, fate, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from...

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Categories: sling, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Parody of Flanders and Swann
Parody of The Gas Man Cometh by Flanders and Swann

It was on a Monday morning the boiler man came to call
Said he’d return with spare...

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Categories: sling, humorous, parody,
Form: Couplet
Word Hoard
They say if you don’t use a thing for a year
It’s time to get rid of it, just to be clear
Feel free to sell it...

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Categories: sling, education, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Fart Song
THE OLD FART SONG
(sing to the tune of "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys")

Verse one:

Old men ain't easy to love and...

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Categories: sling, age, love, men,
Form: Light Verse
A Beach Lagoon
MONOTETRA: Each stanza contains four 
lines in monorhyme. Each line is in 
tetrameter for a total of eight syllables. 
What makes the Monotetra so powerful...

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Categories: sling, inspirational, pain, beach, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Ballot
Politics
Politicians
Definition: (Webster’s dictionary)
To deceive, dismay, confuse or blind 
How perfect !
Simply put 
Misplaced faith by the masses 
But truly not our fault 
Just a little...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sling, people, political
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yet Know That For Truth, Such Simply Will Not Suffice
Yet Know That For Truth, Such Simply Will Not Suffice

While you may want flowers spread across brightest room,
some write of death, darkness, usual daily doom.
Try...

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Categories: sling, anger, art, slam, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Looked To Heaven That Christmas Night
I Looked To Heaven That Christmas Night

What shall I do, cast far away my pen
Should wizen Cheshire cat stop its grin
Mighty Amazon stop its massive...

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Categories: sling, christmas, devotion, faith, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Flesh Huntress
The pricking sun starts to hide
when the stars unfurl their cloaks
The darkness starts to creep this evening
Oh I can feel my spirit rising

I stayed at...

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Categories: sling, fantasywoman,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things