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Summing Up
Mr MacPherson, a mathematician
Was married to Sally,a keen statistician.
With little division to trigger vexation
Their conjugal lives led to multiplication.
First Roland, then Harry and then the...

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Categories: summing, family, math,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Beseeching Denouement
Denouement, I beseech you, take your time.
I see you lurking closely by my gate.
I want to live and love and write my rhyme.
Go finish someone...

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Categories: summing, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sweet Abuse of Our Privacy
Just half a meter away is this semi-covered female
so fertile for a score of trees to grow on
smooth and soft, curvy and oily
a rich landscape...

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Categories: summing, emotions, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Carolyn Devonshire; Poetry Soup Pals. Love
Carolyn Devonshire    U.S.A.   Poetess and Contest Sponsor. I Think She Does Both Well.
And here is one of the Great Voices...

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Categories: summing, dedication, friendship, love, song-lyricwords,
Form: Lyric
My Boyfriend Is a Beehive...
... that's naughty honey...

Reflecting upon the idea...
I dipped a finger and checked the air
The wind was moving and I could swear
That my boyfriends taste was...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summing, funny
Form: I do not know?



Wanted Dead Or Alive
Wanted dead or alive 
When I want u so bad I could have died inside 
Died Inside my mind with out even noticing 
Screaming at...

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Categories: summing, devotion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Orbiting Monet
Her heart was a watercolor foyer.
  Drifting about eddies-beneath fatal falls.
     Wishing away the violets,
     ...

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Categories: summing, death, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Wish, Oh I Wish
A huge monstrous olive tree
not giving shade nor bearing fruits,
existing in pains and disappointments
together with the others, they live
is the exact expression of my grieve.

Too...

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Categories: summing, grief, sad,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part 2
continues from part 1

And I to him: “Show me where I can find,
If you want that I bring your news then up,
Who is who foresees...

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Categories: summing, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Just the Two of Us
Memories of goodness from collaborating nakedness
are more than strong appetizing captivity from hot omelets and lasagna
serving as the foundation of a strong intimacy
planted in a...

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Categories: summing, love, romance, romantic, sexy,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the...

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Categories: summing, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Higher Than a Kite
Sometimes things are a real hassle
Other times they turn out right
When things turn out on the positive side
We can fly higher than a kite

There's lotsa...

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Categories: summing, happiness, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Manifest Dual-Destiny
When life enjoys our full inhale,
breathing in-formation,
Then dying purges through breathing out,
exhaling excarnation,
recessively oriented toward last breath,
precessively convexing (B. Fuller) back in Dia-Memory toward next...

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Categories: summing, culture, education, math, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Noose
It's the noose that is waiting for me.
   Now the law is for all to abide.
   I will hang from the...

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Categories: summing, death,
Form: Villanelle
As a Man Thinketh
As a man thinketh: so is he. 
We know this to be true.
For the results are what we see
as actions follow through.

The summing up of...

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Categories: summing, introspection, people
Form: Rhyme

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