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Best Subsequent Poems

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The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subsequent, abuse, analogy, black african
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)
If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few

Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far...

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Categories: subsequent, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prisons of Conceit
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind 

is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind

They construct reinforced dams that hold...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subsequent, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Some Rain Must Fall Upon Every Roof
When life gives a choice don't ask why
Don't dwell in dark under a star-lit sky
If music starts playing go find your voice
Don't ask why when...

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Categories: subsequent, life, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A "hopeless" Diamond (In the Rough)
French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died...

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Categories: subsequent, history, mysterylost, hope, lost,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Tattered Flag
The other day I sat beneath a sycamore tree on the court house lawn.
Old Glory fluttered in the breeze and to my eyes it was...

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Categories: subsequent, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
A Tribute To Golda
A Tribute to Golda

It was a clear and bright sun shining morning in May.
As I came out my front door into the breezeway,
I saw coming...

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Categories: subsequent, animalshusband, dog, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
A Mutiny On the Bounty
It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean...

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Categories: subsequent, words, me, men, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member To God Be the Glory - Great Things He Has Done
To God be the glory - great things he has done.



‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also...

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Categories: subsequent, god,
Form: Narrative
Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those...

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Categories: subsequent, black african american, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Agony of War
Barbarous reason rejoices
and draws strength dispensing death.
Its celebration comes with
cold effigies of blood soaked,
ravaged, masked graves of silence,
leaving any subsequent regret
within the heart of the...

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Categories: subsequent, conflict, death, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Screen Flickers
Thoughts flood my mind 
when I’m alone
Close to my computer 
I am sin prone
These flames of lust 
they flicker within me
Images intertwined 
begging me to...

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Categories: subsequent, conflict, desire, lust,
Form: Prose
Premium Member You Echoed My Voice
Look to the sky to witness morning glory
As rising vision writes an amorous story
Painting cosmic canvas delightfully spry
To witness morning glory, look to the sky

Listen...

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Categories: subsequent, emotions, friendship, longing,
Form: Quatrain
Future
Future Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron


Before time was created lived an hourglass draining of sand,
the sand sank and there came the desire for true destinies,
Before the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subsequent, beauty, blessing, destiny,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In the Meadow
Two travelers with different destinations, we met before our paths diverged,
and in that span between our first encounter and subsequent farewell,
we read in one another’s...

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Categories: subsequent, lost love,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things