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So It Was
So it was that the night transcended peacefully over my head
Taking me through thick clouds,landing me upon parched land
Spilling  tranquil moments into daylight complexity.
So...

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Categories: summarizing, angel, blessing, christian, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The City Opens Its Arms
As we walk outside the 
  city opens its' arms to us 
A friendly crossing guard 
     signals to cross...

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Categories: summarizing, education, teacher, urban,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Not So Friendly Discussions
Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before...

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Categories: summarizing, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
A 17 Year Old Writer.......!
The pseudo alacrity that he is callow,
Lacking emotions, maturity shallow,
Ignorance ammassed, adulthood fallow,
When summarizing vices, all but hallow!

Writing about the footprints of Marriage,
The opposite sexes'...

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Categories: summarizing, on writing and words,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Sylvia Stays Sedentary
Sylvia stays sedentary still seeking superiority 
Sometimes summarizing situations so subtilely*, 
Suddenly somnambulistic, she slips silently
Sensing some sarcastic silliness, soon senility. 

*alternate, archaic spelling for...

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Categories: summarizing, fun, word play,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member God As Archivist
It is at least interesting to turn life's political economy backward
through reverse-time focus.

Life's memories of an uphill journey,
perhaps even a sacred pilgrimage,
toward an ultimate death...

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Categories: summarizing, culture, earth, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Earth's Eulogy
Mothers have come
from throughout Earth
to bury our post-Trumpian dead.
Bringing both gifts and lamentations
as each finds appropriate
for healing
what cannot be stanched
and scabbed.

As gathering 
we choose who...

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Categories: summarizing, celebration, funeral, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Life
Begin at the beginning is a good place to start
It makes this poem less tart 
sliding from oozed cocoon box
the lions have dens, the holes...

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Categories: summarizing, lifelife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Second Chance
Life gives every day 
New page to write a story
Leaving behind past
Summarizing memories
Beginning an episode













Example For Second Chance Poetry Contest
8-31-2016...

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Categories: summarizing, life,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Leadership Convention
When potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living 
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,

Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
synagogues,
mosques,
green post-millennial sanctuaries,
Gaian ecofeminist fire-circles
gathered their members and neighboring allies,
republican nationalists,
green...

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Categories: summarizing, conflict, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Book I'M Reading
Some things and projects are started but never finished.
Some other things were never intended for you to finish.
I knew a lady who told my wife...

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Categories: summarizing, character, christian, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Check the Details
Whether literal or proverbial,
If you are looking for the devil;
Although I can't imagine why you
would want to. But if for any reason
you may desire to...

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Categories: summarizing, engagement, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
I Came Out Under the Blue Light
my foundation was flooded
armour broken
but soul refused to give up

I'm wearing this soul like beggar his worn out shoes
Would you love me?

they took my hands
they...

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Categories: summarizing, mother,
Form: Free verse
Upmteenth Re Inspection Revisited
Upmteenth (re:) inspection revisited...

I experience dread-nought
until April 19th, 2022 becomes yesterday
when troubles with management
here at Highland Manor
hoop fully temporarily alleviated.

Yours truly and the missus
personal living...

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Categories: summarizing, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse
Chamber Maid For Cremation
Intrigued about cremation,
I sought GOOGLE to assuage curiosity
significant questions answered
clicking the following website
https://www.funeralwise.com/plan/
cremation/cremation-process/

though summarizing article
some oven death defying act,
yet summarization satisfactorily completed,
thus herewith briefly describes
kickstarting,...

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Categories: summarizing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs