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Premium Member Speculation
Environmental ramifications
Will far exceed current tabulations
And surely cause widespread consternation
For resentful future populations
 
No hopes will be pinned on legislation
Look to intergalactic migration
Flight from a...

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Categories: speculation, visionary
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member My Song
~Not Like Me~ 

When you were first put into my arms, 
I begged God, to make you nothing like me 
For my sins, ask for...

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Categories: speculation, betrayal, conflict, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ringing Sea
 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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Categories: speculation, appreciation, beach, blue, character,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Rare Find
Next item up for bid, a rare coin of mine
Is one 1894 s silver Liberty dime
Only 24 of these coins were minted that year
That is,...

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Categories: speculation, business, fantasy, history, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Origins
ORIGINS

Winter’s shroud
Urges meditation
Adornment so scant    only
Heaven’s light to cheer the lonely

In springtime though
Peeping buds awaken
Tiny origins thrust
Ease one’s contemplation

Tulips germinate
Sans nature’s later...

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Categories: speculation, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Obsession With Truth
To hunger for truth,
as lies feast on perception
sitting at the table with hope and desire
Where vanity is served in a cold glass of pride
until humility...

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Categories: speculation, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wrongful Conviction
Sweetened dung is shoveled down
gluttonous throats with eager appetites for
alleged misdeeds skillfully spun
into a frenzy of sensationalized hype
by media-seasoned reporters.
.
Seduced by speculation and hearsay,
a jury...

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Categories: speculation, allegory, social,
Form: Free verse
A Short Session
My mind
unstable foundation.

They keep talking,
through dreams, comes communication.

A combination,
another citation
never any satisfaction
(Look over here, another distraction)

Formation into another illustration
division by another diversion.

So, what version can...

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© Onyx Perth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speculation, anger, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Attitudes Differ
 Thanks to Dr.Ram Mehta for introducing this awesome poetic form to me I had to try it  
No two people are the same,...

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Categories: speculation, family, forgiveness, life, philosophy,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Eyes
EYES

The round-of-life scene,
Hope of hereafter,
An aspect between

Movement hinders sight      and more
A sandy beach
Spread at the shore

Glaze    ...

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Categories: speculation, death,
Form: Free verse
Nurse Anne
Nurse Anne

Snow steeped in mountains and mountains steeped in snow
Evergreens and pine trees hold the earth with purpose
Nurse Anne steps into hospital from brutal winter...

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Categories: speculation, appreciation, caregiving, celebrity, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In 2118
In the Great War’s aftermath a handful survived,
though seven billion had perished.
Time to excavate a country’s history arrived
and much speculation had been nourished.
Survivors sought signs...

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Categories: speculation, faith, history,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Artsy Banksy Latest
The artwork shows a 
female gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble 
on the side of a building damaged by Russian strikes
The graffiti artist posted...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speculation, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For the Boy With the Furrowed Brow
Expectation
Is a wasted exercise.
Attempting to surmise
The content of a situation
Leads to misconceptions:
A woman cries,
A source of pride,
The setting of the sun;
Exchange it for another one
And...

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Categories: speculation, confusion, feelings, time,
Form: Free verse
Selbstverbannung
Whispering caresses testify
   under duress with somber
   adoration.

How many sonnets have I
   forgotten
   while tracing the
   contours of your shape?

Your slick fragrance disarms my
   resolve; I yearn to
   bottle such essence

if only...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: speculation, lost love, passion
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things