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Premium Member Paying a High Price
Russia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken...

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Categories: substandard, conflict, murder, prison, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Dark Side of Canada
I do not have to go far away
 but just look within canada     to see
there is starvation    ...

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Categories: substandard, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nation's Damnable Blight
Nation’s Damnable Blight

Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree,  
Planted in white culture during infamous time of our...

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Categories: substandard, abuse, america, angst, corruption,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member On Writing Mediocre Poems
The most gifted poets who ever wrote
Occasionally penned gibberish and tripe
Even Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats
Sometimes were at a loss for words
In exchange for a royal...

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Categories: substandard, poems, poets, sorry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Breaking My Heart
 
chinese food dripping sauce
spicy beef and noodles
steaming vegetable rice
eggrolls and plum dip
spareribs and garlic
delightful
food


oh so delicious-    most of us have all...

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Categories: substandard, death, food, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Six Hundred Boys
Six Hundred Boys

Six hundred boys were singing in the hall
Six hundred boys were singing in the hall
Six hundred boys were singing there
Singing out a secret...

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Categories: substandard, psychological, rights, satire, school,
Form: Rhyme
Dear America
Everyone is searching for answers in the midst of current tragedies 
Two unarmed black men and five white cops gunned down mercilessly 
Black in Americans...

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Categories: substandard, america, black african american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Madison's Tears
Virginia, June 8, 1789
James Madison penned the constitution
And on December 15, 1791
It became America’s resolution

The first amendment clearly states
No abridging of the freedom to speak
We...

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Categories: substandard, introspection, life, people, social,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Berth Write
Berth Write/limerick


There was a young wordsmith from Perth
who when writing would question the worth
of words from the thesaurus
he so hoped would awe us
though placed in...

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Categories: substandard, words, writing,
Form: Limerick
Failed
How dare you walk around all cocky and self righteous
Nailing your ASS is going to be my final gift
U know what u did covering it...

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© Diana Vee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: substandard, abuse, loss,
Form: Rhyme
I Will Be There For You
I will be there for you

Past night I saw a dream.
Nobody else but me and you.
Far from I was eyeing you,
numb;
secret admirer I was.
I hate...

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Categories: substandard, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism
A Poem On Not Shaving For Months
How Unkempt and awful I look when
I forget to shave for weeks
Often have I to put off shaving for months
Once I went unshaved for a...

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Categories: substandard, adventure, funny, inspirational, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sonic Sonnet
Sonorous, saporous symphonies: strong;
soothingly spirited, sublime sweet songs.
Satisfied sigh, sees salubrious springs;
sharp, sizzling sunburn scream: saltwater stings.

Searing sharp satirists, snarkily snide;
subtle smart sophists show soft,...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: substandard, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Rest My Body In the Know of Mine
I want a plain substandard coffin,
Wide enough to contain my wishes of more livelier offing
A much more humbled prospect; a faultless unadulterated vision!

I want a...

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Categories: substandard, death, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023
Inspection took place February 17th, 2023...

At 1330 hours (indicated
courtesy notification slipped under door
less than twenty four hours)
hence foretold ill fate
by property (crooks and quade) management
the...

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Categories: substandard, adventure, america, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs