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Premium Member Sold
There is no difference,
the saints whisper and every enemy and ally
wake to forever’s difference,
that neither knee nor tongue will deny.

Doubt bit into Innocence and sold
the...

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Categories: sold, bible, christian, corruption, god,
Form: Didactic



Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sold, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: sold, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Cocaine Is Her Name
COCAINE Is Her Name  ( Addiction )

COCAINE is her name. They call her COKE for short.
She came into this Country, without a Passport.
Since then...

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Categories: sold, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sold, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: sold, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: sold, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: sold, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Hiya's Words
 "There'll be a zealous zephyr 
    that isn't tamed by time; 
   I'll be the lunar princess, 
 ...

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Categories: sold, appreciation, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh**
Sliced his left ear off
Only one painting did Van Gogh sell  -
maybe he didn’t hear the doorbell!


The only painting Van Gogh sold...

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Categories: sold, art, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Oh Jerusalem
Remember

Israel of three thousand years
expulsed at times
enslaved by the Romans
gassed by Europe
persecuted by Saudi-Arabia
murdered by Iran and Iraq
shackled by Egypt
attacked by Jordan
robbed by Syria
sold out...

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Categories: sold, allah, bible, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Soar Like a Butterfly
These thoughts of mine do not behold
Let them soar high like wings befold

Observe  them  come        ...

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Categories: sold, freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Lullabyto the Lost
Life and cigarettes burn to fast.
We waste are time.
So within the moment you bask.

A pretty face has to age.
Every story meets  it's final page.
When...

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Categories: sold, angst, life, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Weep O Willows
Sigh you wind whispering willows
Green sentinels of the ocean blue
Her feet edge no more the billows
Where canoes dock and salt sprays spew
Sigh for the loss...

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Categories: sold, death
Form: Verse
Premium Member Slave
Like a herd of cattle, placed on a ship.
Upon my back, I felt their whip!
Ripping into my flesh, excruciating pain.
Forced across the big water on...

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Categories: sold, courage, death, slavery, perspective,
Form: Quatrain

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