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Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
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POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

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Categories: strangle, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member White Wing
Wings of fear flutter nightly in my heart,
a terror-taunt haunt that whittles my thought;
the brutish fist bruise-blackening heart-art -
my past-smashed man, wars in your head...

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Categories: strangle, abuse, forgiveness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Another One
Waking
Slumber
Another day
One more to sway

My eyes are red
My hopes are dead
I live in dread
In bed

Another day
Another one
Another breath of putrid air
Why

Interludes
Softly mocking me
Musicale morticians
Playing with...

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Categories: strangle, abuse, addiction, celebrity, corruption,
Form: Light Verse
Party Vine
PARTY VINE

The Sweet Pea is a social climber,
behind your back, a wisenheimer.
In the night it wields its powers,
Sweet Peas strangle other flowers.

Sweet Peas think the...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strangle, celebration, color, flower, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Crazy Beautiful
I'm crazy beautiful 
or plainly insane
I consider insanity 
to be a personal gain
perpetual bliss
or so the surface shows
hidden secrets
no one can know
inside i want to...

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Categories: strangle, beautiful, confusion, dark, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Melanoma
Where the sun beats on dry cracking plains like an anvil. Where Winter’s frozen fingers strangle growth. Where sweaty shirts cling to mortal skin. Where...

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Categories: strangle, life,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Schrodinger's Monster
Don't open your eyes!
          Horrid sounds - screams and scratching,
     an odor...

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Categories: strangle, analogy, emotions, fear, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Well Worth Waiting In
All afternoon I waited in at my house for you
But you didn’t show up and the air turned blue!

Called the servicing and maintenance department ...

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Categories: strangle, house, humorous, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going To the Hospital
I'm going to the hospital again.
I'll see some new and old friends.
The doctor must like me for he likes to see me,
At least once a...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strangle, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tinge of Purple Rests Within My Heart
Tinge Of Purple Rests Within My Heart

Tinge of purple rests within my tired heart
Soft touches of a heavy old soul
Now pulling on my heavy empty...

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Categories: strangle, age, art, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
Bed of Thorns
The clichés drum upon my skull
Pounding pulse
Of rapid heart beat.

“Choices of today
Limit Opportunities of Tomorrow”
As once again I fall to defeat.

Though another directs the puppet...

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Categories: strangle, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Animus In Prelude
Coffeeblood castings surface
Earthworms rip through trenches
Tangleweeds tug at my limbs
Twisting ferns rake through my hair
As spikes of foxglove ready a violet strangle
The sun itself is...

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Categories: strangle, nature
Form: Free verse
You Will Be the Last
Feel my curling vines surround this unyielding fence
For years they have been tightly gripped against your rust
Above us, a darkened raincloud,
Threatening lightning and stinging sorrows…
Though...

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Categories: strangle, anxiety, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Footfalls
My gray head turns aghast,
broken glass, broken glass,
two by fours, without their walls.

Floors lifted by years of rain,
walls hanging on in vain,
nothing is as I...

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Categories: strangle, childhood, farewell,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tears and Tears of Hope
When tears dry up and laughter is not funny any longer
As duvet feathers grind the weary soul to sunken skin
The parchments dehydrated canvas folds the...

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Categories: strangle, courage,
Form: Rhyme

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