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Open Sores
I am a coward with open sores. 
I write and wonder who it bores. 
I hear my heart and mind argue repeatedly. 
I see others...

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Categories: sores, allegory, angst, art, dedication,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: sores, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Before and Beyond the Bed
When 
When did a bed become your prison
I see your strength absorbed
Absorbed by the mattress 
I turn you
Trying to prevent sores
Who would have thought soft...

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Categories: sores, hope,
Form: Free verse
Jungle War
So thick with rain,the rancid air
into the jungle pours.
Young soldiers with their feet on fire
keep on despite the sores.

This war is one that no one...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sores, history, war, home, home,
Form: Quatrain
They Don'T Bite Like They Used To
He sat there in his fav'rite chair, a blanket 'cross his lap 
And covering his snow white hair was his old fishing cap. 
I knew...

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Categories: sores, father, nostalgia, social, dad,
Form: Rhyme



Card Tricks
It was a party like most, I guess
And not a “fun” one, I must confess
But our hostess I adored
And I just couldn’t say: “I’m bored”,

So,...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sores, conflict, dark, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and...

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Categories: sores, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plockton - Wester Ross
The greatest holiday gift I ever received  
Goes back so many, many years
Before my life became turmoiled
And before my tears for fears

I was a...

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Categories: sores, adventure, angst, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member So Young, So Sad, Loved Grand-Dad
Ricky was just eight years of age,
As a single mom, had to down stage,
That his papa could die any day soon,
I remember that night, there...

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Categories: sores, son,
Form: Rhyme
Deaf and Gone
I am whatever you say I am...
but, let's get back to reality...

       Three short years ago, this room shined...

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Categories: sores, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Castle In My Mind
In this castle
Created in my mind
A tree,
This tree
A scar
A jagged one 
Still healing
Blood dripping
Forms a path

Two watchmen
Chipping away
Away at it's skin
Creating holes
To suck out blood
Warning...

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Categories: sores, allusion, anxiety, beautiful, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Childish Heart
1. To the clear bidding for one, a mug wump it stands
showcasing mouthwatering care but with dirty hands
for trophy, for lust, all in a virulent...

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Categories: sores, adventure, betrayal, boy, character,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Having My Weigh With Homophones
'Tis know wander nor em aye telling yew anything gnu,
Hour tongue is awash with homophones confounding me end ewe.

Ah, two sea thee broad expenses from...

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Categories: sores, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Malignancy : the Civil War
Critically injured 
How deep the cut
Surely time would heal
A river of blood
From the wounds
Her sons lay dead in the fields
Extremities mangled
Conscience tormented
From sores that festered...

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Categories: sores, america, conflict, history, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All For the Love of Joe
This was inspired by Georgette Johnson’s poem “Savouring Another Day”
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One cold day whilst I was out in the snow 
I went into a cafe for...

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Categories: sores, drink, humorous, snow,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things