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Premium Member The Sum of a Life
This life we're living
Is so unforgiving
Reminding us every day
Of games that we played
Choices we made
Dreams that faded away
Paths that were crossed
Loved ones we've lost
Still promising...

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Categories: subtract, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Modern Poetry
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Categories: subtract, art, dark, evil, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dart Chalker
He threw the dart,
it missed the board,
it hit my foot instead.
The next dart flew.
it hit a wire
then ricocheted t'wards my head.

It's a dangerous thing,
the game...

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Categories: subtract, humorous, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Questions
Grand-father speak to me of life.
"We are all trapped in the skin of our birth,
seeking refuge in a world where time is motionless
and heartbeats are...

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Categories: subtract, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Complex Math of Living
The Complex Math of Living
By Franklin Price
4/3/2015

The complex math of living
In this 21st Century
Is all about the numbers
Don't add up for you and me

Billions of...

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Categories: subtract, corruption, hope, life, money,
Form: Rhyme



Fear of Numbers
Fear of Numbers

Fear of numbers is real
They carry adding machines on their backs
And loaded numbered guns
Divide and subtract from families and everyone
With two times the...

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Categories: subtract, conflict, education, image, judgement,
Form: Didactic
Every Seed Grows
In this field of plantation; 
Where I walk and plant various 
parts of myself around this 
world; 
I sometimes look back and notice 
the trail;...

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Categories: subtract, self, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Recipe For Love
Step 1, take two friends before they are lovers
Show them how to share with oneanother
Add a slice of intinmacy of becoming one
Like holding hands under...

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Categories: subtract, anniversary, girlfriend-boyfriend, love
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Assembly Programming Test
I whizzed past the assembler, add
count in octal, subtract 
hexadecimal. Found error 
in the dump file, all zeroes
and wondered, is this an omen?

Surprise! write me...

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Categories: subtract, computer, memory, school, success,
Form: Free verse
War Siren
WAR SIREN

On the battlefield, the ruby blood, 
is caked to warm dusty brown to dry.
Bedraggled women calls the living, 
she, with pleasure, makes a soldier...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtract, corruption, irony, passion, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Law of Faith
"The Law of Faith"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

I would like to inform those who just don't know the half
Man can corrupt anything except for Truth...

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Categories: subtract, art, bible, faith, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Debark
Art is a form of the universe
Miss guided bends over seeking lost maps
Only to pick up stabbed hearts

Praising soldiers of the sword
Mocking nurses, how absurd?
A...

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Categories: subtract, 2nd grade, art, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Jealous Love
They say the gods do not subtract from man
the portion of his life spent sailing ships,
but she, the sea, brings ruin to ill plans.

Though harsh,...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtract, sea,
Form: Terza Rima
Mind Does Not Know Me
It is buried in a yesterday,
a bygone, a far gone, yet still
as near as my most recent breath
taken.

I must have reached for the key.
I must...

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Categories: subtract, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Even a Long Road Ends
Even a long road ends

Like shadows chasing daydreams at sundown 
Or the last touch of darkness, at the dawning of a day
I’ve tried so hard...

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Categories: subtract, change, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things