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Premium Member Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...

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Categories: substituted, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry



Poetry In An Urdu Nutshell
Garage       
stacked high
scribbled stenos of
an automatic act
of little understanding or thought-------------
{tuhituhi}

visceral finality       
zero...

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Categories: substituted, poems, poetry, poets, self,
Form: Nazm
Hiv Positive
HIV Positive

I am HIV positive that I know,
But I will exercise my civic right,
As my blood continues to flow,
For my views to be heard I...

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Categories: substituted, health, me, me,
Form: Burlesque
After the Slap
Everybody’s seen it
And discussed it to no end,
Wondering what repercussions
It may yet portend.

But to have a welcome chuckle,
Go check out James Corden’s song.
If will guarantee...

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Categories: substituted, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Obligated Order
Pull on the rope keep climbing
Apologies and compensation
are in order for the disorder
to the labeled minority 
brothers mothers and daughters
caused by the distorters
corrupted system creates...

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Categories: substituted, faith, forgiveness, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?



Mathematical Love
I decide not to worry about the parallelness
Of the tangents to the circles of our life story
The equation of the curve of my initial decision
Of...

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© Ntim Evans  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: substituted, math,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Ode To the Scavenger
(1)
Strophe
Slowly and slowly fly the mighty feathers:
the uncanny wrath bearer, the poacher's prey,
the bald bizzare stigmatic cryptic creature, the ecology's majestic role player;
the curtain raiser...

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Categories: substituted, absence, animal, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ode
Giantvillism and City of the Bean People Part 5
Jake’s Two Week Stay

Jake Castle began to think about Giant and Maddy. Looking in his case he decided to write a melody for when he...

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Categories: substituted, appreciation, best friend, birth,
Form: Ballad
Eat, Sleep, Love, Repeat
Light, the kind that brings the faintest glimmer of hope,
appeared suddenly through a darkened wood;
like an oasis after travelling through the Sahara so parched
with thirst...

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Categories: substituted, angst, heartbreak, hope, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Letters Written In Fetters - 2
So dear son,
                  A man on crutches is...

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Categories: substituted, father, father, children, father,
Form: Free verse
Bassnectar Red Rocks '13
the    m  u  s  i  c    took   CONTROL
our heartbeats replaced by  ...

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Categories: substituted, adventure, beautiful, community, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once I Was a Prince - Part Three
Part Three

  ...swishing away with your sunshrivelled burgundy knotty arms with broad disdainful harvesting sweeps the cobras come out to water in the sweltering...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: substituted, family, me, water, may,
Form: Free verse
Years of Hurt
Whilst the majority of domestic violence perpetrators are men I am fully aware that men are sometimes victims as well, therefore this poem is written...

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Categories: substituted, abuse, anger, fear, football,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Monster In-Law
A ship controlled by multiple captains, a home by an extra head
her presence makes it void of comfort with an unkempt bed.

Supposedly one family but...

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Categories: substituted, abuse, adventure, family, marriage,
Form: Couplet
The Fruit Salad
Sceptical satsumas with suspicious rumours of fruit bowl disclaimers

A mention of cucumber and tomato being part of the starter,
leaving melon and grape displeased and irate

A...

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Categories: substituted, people, social, fruit,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs