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Premium Member Anyday and Sundays
Anyday and Sundays,
breathless with the word,
anticipation - he will show up.
  It is the shout of Jericho,
    as we walk out...

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Categories: snatches, christian, sister,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wow Me
MEANA THE WEEVIL ITCH

In deepest hyper space, in the land of Zog,
lives a weevil itch who resides in a bog
At birth she'd been Zogletised as...

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Categories: snatches, fantasy, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Iv-Vi
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snatches, age, humor, satire, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Rusty Playground
I bent my mind around her ideas
became engrossed by playful words
Yet the thoughts were so horrific
my tears flowed and eyes were blurred 
Sandbox baby playing
laughter...

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Categories: snatches, angst, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Kitchen Island
As I sit awhile at my kitchen window
And float weightless in the pond yonder
What if you and I were those geese?
My unmoored thoughts always wander.

Basking...

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Categories: snatches, dream, romantic,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Its the Fourth
It’s the fourth - fireworks; the fizzle of stars.
The colorful display of power of the people —
waving of the red, white and blue; freedom
rings, slowly,...

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Categories: snatches, america, freedom, independence day,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Crow
Do not judge bird with black coloured wing,
“ugly looking thief that cannot sing!” 
“snatches from others so it can feed!”
A bird linked to death, darkness...

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Categories: snatches, black african american, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crumpled Thoughts
Crumpled Thoughts 

They wait – in hues of vibrating silence -
Like leftover orts of rumpled paper wimples 
On creased clandestine journal pages –
Bent scraps of...

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Categories: snatches, art, birth, muse, words,
Form: Free verse
Losing Someone Hurts
Nothing seems to erase the pain
Of losing someone you love
Memories return now and again
Come; bring your hurts to God above

Losing someone hurts; now that's true...

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Categories: snatches, bereavement, break up, death,
Form: Rhyme
Eating Oysters
The tray comes out
I choose my first 
I lift the shell to my mouth
Splash! A foamy spray of brine smashes against the rocks, sending arcs...

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© Gab Batter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snatches, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Owned By a Cat
Peepers
Majestic queen
Mightily snatches prey
Aloof, haughty, and crazy quick
We are honored to serve her needs
Spoiled Cat


Written 7/23/2018         ...

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Categories: snatches, cat,
Form: Cinquain
Death
This has been done or this is to be done
This has been half-done or not to be done 
He seldom minds, whether it is done
He...

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Categories: snatches, death, spiritual, truth, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Captive Quill
Written: September 09, 2023
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In the abyss of night, I'm held captive tight.
Addiction to idioms fuels my Phoebus fight.
I abide, vouching sporadically to escape,
From the clutches...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snatches, addiction, analogy, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mangrove
Tiny black crabs climb
Up and down my arms and waist
As I drink the humid air

And taste of the salt
That the heron also knows
When she snatches...

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Categories: snatches, nature,
Form: Choka
True Poem of Abuse
~True Story Of Abuse~

Marrying her at an immature age, older by 30 years, 
arranged marriage by her father.
Abuse started from day one. 

Raped fiercely that...

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Categories: snatches, crazy, evil, teen, wedding,
Form: Prose Poetry

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