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Premium Member Broken People
I wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...

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Categories: sorta, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Like a Girl
I play like a girl, I hit like a girl
You say I throw like a girl, 
And when I run -- I run like a...

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Categories: sorta, beautiful, girl, identity, rights,
Form: Free verse
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: sorta, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member White Cane
He walked down Goverment Road West
With a white cane, in shaking hand
Wearing Stevie wonder glasses
People called him the pop bottle man

With a white cane, in...

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Categories: sorta, community, history, memory,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member She Is, Or Maybe She Is Not
She found herself
In the shards of who I am
The broken bits
The shadows
The resurrection of yesterday's pauses

I wonder
Was it the happy bits
The quiet contemplations
Or does she...

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Categories: sorta, appreciation, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Compadre
We’ve shared the trail, kicked up some dust,
An’ stood a storm or two.
We’ve rode the plains, the wide frontier,
The easy trails were few.
You’ve listened like...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorta, animals, cowboy-western, death, friendship,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Straight For Gay
Often made to feel you’re less
Should you care any more?
Can you escape the cruelty,
while occupying your own shore?

People remain unbalanced,
by only seeing you one way.
For...

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Categories: sorta, celebration, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Thirsty
Thirsty

I could tell right away he was up ta sum thin.
I could see it in doze beady eyes!
His wordz were smooth in a snake like...

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Categories: sorta, betrayal, corruption, death, future,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Special Occasion
I want to be 
your special occasion 
To see you smile 
like you’re on vacation 
That in a cool sorta way 
I’m your happy activation

I...

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Categories: sorta, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Wasn'T
He was an ugly handsome 
In a foreword  backwards kinda way
Silent and outspoken 
with nothing great to say

Strong with a strange weakness
Secrets he could...

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Categories: sorta, addiction, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Pun Fun
I had an IPod problem!
I fixed it, this is how!
I named the thing "Titanic",
by God, it's "syncing" now!

I was wondering where the sun goes?
I stayed...

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Categories: sorta, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conversational Twists and Turns
Topics of conversation seem to change as we approach maturity.
As kids we talked of love - now it's lumbago and social security!
It once was enlightening...

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Categories: sorta, funny, high school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Faded
I was here once 
But now I'm one of the forgotten ones
I faded away slowly
Imperceptibly 
Like the once vibrant blue of blue jeans
The edges frayed...

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Categories: sorta, cool, emotions, feelings, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cat 5
I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin'...

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Categories: sorta, cat, dream, song,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ham Hock and Bacon
My uncle Dran was an odd sorta man 
who never much cared for livestock.
But wouldn't you know he kept a pig he loved so, 
and...

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Categories: sorta, animal, farm, food, pets,
Form: Couplet

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