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Specifying Defying
lets give it a shape
twisted lines of 3-d scribbles
starts and ends nose to tail
maybe
marshmallow squidges syphoned through gossamer ether
missed mist of missing moments

nope how about...

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Categories: specifying, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Perfect Year
The perfect year,
two equal halves.
One with leaves
one without.
Forest thinning out.
Bring indoors
swing sets, pools, smiles, thoughts.

Having enough and not much else is a lot.
The transfer of...

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Categories: specifying, christian, community, family, insect,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dillen and the Dmv
TO:  Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney

FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer

8/16/16

RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil...

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Categories: specifying, culture, discrimination, health, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Wise Men and the Roman Authorities
“Are we under them or not?” they debated, 
“Do we owe them explanation?”, they demurred, 
Sure of their validation of this baby, they stated, 
To...

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Categories: specifying, betrayal, bible, birth, christmas,
Form: Quatrain
The Wise Men and the Roman Authorities
“Are we under them or not?” they debated, 
“Do we owe them explanation?”, they demurred, 
Sure of their validation of this baby, they stated, 
To...

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Categories: specifying, baby, birth, christmas, corruption,
Form: Quatrain



Virgins In Attica
The soul is dead in passing 
The spirit lost its belonging 
Running out of Ancestors peripherals
Last breath of thee, a gasp 

Trees are throwing out...

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Categories: specifying, myth,
Form: Concrete
A Monastery
The clad ivy charms, warms the walls,
The frontage that welcomes the fold and their outsiders,
Specifying age and strength of delicate beauty, 
Which accounts for that...

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Categories: specifying, beauty, community, faith, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolutions
R-Revived
     
   E-Expectations

      S-Specifying 
 
        ...

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Categories: specifying, desire, happiness, people,
Form: Acrostic
Tiny Tad of Tom's Tidbits
I sent back the Bowflex I ordered back when it failed to come with the arrows.
Ever see "Smiling Bob " with the male "enhancement" adv?...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: specifying, adventure, confusion, funny, house,
Form: Burlesque
Corner-Stoned
Bowing down for this subtle borrow in trade, 
My head just pounds with an ache just throbbing away.
My thoughts gathered and crunched with a million...

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© Ann Rich  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: specifying, allegory, girlfriend-boyfriend, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Layer Cake
The Layer Cake

We are a skewed birthday cake,
generations of lopsided layers
baked badly by ancestors
of fervent but defective intent,
teetering atop the stale and dried out.

The layers...

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Categories: specifying, culture, destiny, fantasy, history,
Form: Free verse
To the Reigning Poetess Laureate
Newest thoughts brew in mind
Awesome write-ups to unwind
Novelist on the journey winsome
Dashing writing just wowsome
Highest rank of Poet Laureate
Ingenious bent in toto great
Nano skills and...

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Categories: specifying, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Coconut
The suffix nut specifying the skull,
defining the coconut, is misplaced,
for it’s not truly a nut,
but botanically, a drape.

A salinity soaker, the prolific palm,
sultry sea-shore colonizer...

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Categories: specifying, analogy, fruit,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What I Took From the Situation
I didn't want to go to the barbeque
My mood felt dangerously close
to anti social
I'm vegetarian and it's annoying specifying
All the rules I've invented
As it turned...

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Categories: specifying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs