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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: sum, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: sum, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses
'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
  Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
  The Grinch...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sum, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Glimpse


guilty as charged
i stole it tall
every consonant 
every vowel
every word
every sentence 

plagiarized 

the ocean
in its unique shades of blues and greens
combined and blended to create
its...

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Categories: sum, beauty, celebration, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: sum, community, friend,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Sold
There is no difference,
the saints whisper and every enemy and ally
wake to forever’s difference,
that neither knee nor tongue will deny.

Doubt bit into Innocence and sold
the...

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Categories: sum, bible, christian, corruption, god,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Images of Feathers
"Once upon a midnight Poe"

Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is an anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant...

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Categories: sum, allusion, devotion, loneliness, muse,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member In the Middle of the Universe, I Stand
In the middle of the universe, I stand 
My mind seeking comprehension 
The mysteries of life tantalize my tenacious grip on wisdom
I stand
Observing omnipotent organization
The...

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Categories: sum, mystery, universe,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Truthful Mirror
I reflect the truth, yet you see a lie
I'm just a humble mirror, I wonder why
I love the shape, of your beautiful face
Why when you...

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Categories: sum, image,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Shape of Death
3/2/03
 I saw no way- The heavens were stitched
I felt the columns close
The earth reversed her hemispheres
I touched the Universe
378: Emily Dickenson

The Shape of Death

Because...

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Categories: sum, death, meaningful, mother, mystery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: sum, age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reap
it pulls ...
tugs on the core like a fulcrum
black ... mysterious ... warm ... final
harvest of all terrors
(for some)
yet ...
it is the magic of moonglow
the...

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Categories: sum, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perception Is Everything
They say that life is unpleasant,
It's filled with more downs than ups,
But if you see the good in downs,
It'll be easier to stand back up.

They...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sum, confidence, courage, future, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
A Ship Is Safe In the Harbor
A ship is safe in the harbor,
But that's not what ships are built for.

Because in the sum of our human gleams,
We have created the vessel...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sum, adventure, nature, sea, uplifting
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Think Therefore I Am
I THINK THEREFORE I AM


"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth 
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda

Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery

I got mites...

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Categories: sum, character, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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