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Categories: slurred, society, war,
Form: Ballad



I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here Part 3
"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for a cookie expecting to be told it would spoil her dinner
I...

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Categories: slurred, beauty, poetry,
Form: Epic
No Sounds of Any Kind Please, Even Silence
The Sounds of Silence
By: Simon & Garfunkle

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I...

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Categories: slurred, funny, parody,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member No Poetry
Oh where could one sweet person go
          Who craves a phrase to ebb and flow
 ...

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Categories: slurred, appreciation, philosophy, poems, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Can I Care About Poetry
How can I care about poetry ...
       When my dad doesn't care about life?

How can I care about poetry...

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Categories: slurred, father, grief, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme



Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: slurred, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Rude, Drunken Pen
Bloody rude drunken pen has enjoyed a nib of ink or two, reminiscing on a few 
Bad and ugly times, we both admit at times...

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Categories: slurred, imagination, me,
Form: Free verse
The Bigotry That Remains, Part Ii
...But there exists a much broader hate,
half the species, you see, do not rate.
I’m talking, of course, about the men,
how we’re seen as less next...

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Categories: slurred, america, culture, discrimination, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Had a Martini: Ok, Maybe Four
It'd been one of the most bizarre days; downright crazy
so I had a martini, maybe four, so things got kinda hazy
I fumbled in my wallet...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slurred, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poet Is Drunk, the Pen Is Not
With this napkin as my canvas
A word picture I paint
While he drowns out his sorrows
Until he finally faints

The best works he weaves
Are when unconsciously drunk
While...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slurred, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Sara's Waters
I approach the wooded trails and hear nothing save for my footfalls crunching in the soft snow. It is the kind of winter day that...

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Categories: slurred, analogy, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member In All the Crummy Little Barrooms of the Soul
I wait in all the crummy
little barrooms of the soul.
I look about and sniff the air,
drink, and wait.
In the demi-world of honky-tonks,
which vie against night's
inner...

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Categories: slurred, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member His True Love Rose
Across the rink that winter evening stood,
against a wall, a rose, in freezing cold.
So striking in her pose, beneath her hood
two cheeks had stolen glow...

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Categories: slurred, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member For Mama and Kayla- Falling Into His Arms
I have several poems up about my Mama, Angel Manassian. Mama died on March 19, 2000 at the age of 74. She battled with MS...

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Categories: slurred, mother, sick, tribute,
Form: Prose
Blue-Eyed Angel
Through the lies that shatter, the tears that gleam,
Your eyes show the stories, the shadows unclean,
You were mine to have, you were mine to dream,
You...

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Categories: slurred, angst, lost love, teen,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs