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Premium Member O Henry-Successions
Henry, you tried and tried and tried —
turkey legs and beer kegs of great import*
Did they get between you and the ladies,
   ...

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Categories: successions, children,
Form: Free verse



Evolution
Evolution Not God

It is the case that there is no God,
He does not exist, he is not the one,
He is not there, he’s not everyone’s...

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Categories: successions, animal, beautiful, change, cool,
Form: Rhyme
Country Road
Country Road

Rolled carpets of lawn lie, on a shaven bed
A bed that only a month ago, looked barren and dead
While in another paddock, one of...

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Categories: successions, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Emotional Apathy
Breathing like a Fox
Successions like plastic
Future like metal
Since, hence I am back.
I fly like a hawk
An extinct bald eagle.
I live the high life.
For the first...

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Categories: successions, life,
Form: Ballad
Landslide
Of all the memories I hold of you,
I have written of all except the most 
vivid.
Maybe I am afraid of sharing that
 deeply as a...

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Categories: successions, introspectionlife, innocence, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Transparency
You have deadline
You have plans
Your eyes, your ears, all faculties gage 
Journey on

Pause for the Source to whom you pray
Omens will poke, answers will click,...

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Categories: successions, art,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Conundrum
Looking at some thirty-year-old slides.
Was that me, was that you? How many
successions of now, how many tides,
how many sunrises, rainy and sunny 
days must be...

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Categories: successions, allegory, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Immortality
The infinity of time is
still irrevocably established with
irreversible successions; the
extremities of
which, 
in its vast expanse of
continuum, are yet to
be discovered nor
explained by
geniuses
and their mathematical equations.

And...

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© Robert Uy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Survival Is the Fittest
Behold! Folks battle against 
piety,race and land 
Compatriots breath last 
at our feet in war field 
Most discerning creatures 
survived on Earth for ages 
What...

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Categories: successions, inspirational
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Oy To the King
I watched King Charles’ coronation this morning.
I’m not British and some things confused me.
For instance, they kept saying “The new king.”
New? The guy’s a boomer...

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Categories: successions, celebration, celebrity, england, high
Form: Free verse
Along Comes a Flood
When the flood came,
It was beyond what I envisaged,
It was deeply overwhelming,
My feet could barely find a place,
I've seen my father wade through floods,
Floods of...

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Categories: successions, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Penultimate Sky
What is life?
but a clutching for dear life 
to a  cotton ball dipped in sweet nectar
a wounded butterfly grasps, 
finally able to drink his...

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Categories: successions, meaningful, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Billion Light-Years In the Past
A Billion Light-Years in the Past
David J Walker
 
Star Light
Star bright
I look to you for the solution
Tonight
Are we the offspring of 
Single-cell
Are viruses invading us
In...

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Categories: successions, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Silva
Spanish sub-verse song scheme
Seven-eleven strings 
Stanza shared successions  
Several stunning strips
Streak soliloquy strands 
Subsequently stressed sounds
Sung smoothly; serenely 


20 January 2022 
Write About a...

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Categories: successions, poetry,
Form: Pleiades
Cbse Teachers and Principals Awards 2022
The Central Board of Secondary Education  
Has invited many an online application
From its Teachers and Principals 
To give out the 2022 Awards  
On...

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Categories: successions, angel, appreciation, art, august,
Form: Couplet

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