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Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: survives, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Transmutation
"we woke up early one morn, ego shorn
it felt as though we were in form reborn
nodes within stirred, boundaries blurred
our head and heart, with love...

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Categories: survives, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member One Broken Monoku
one feeble couple barely survives
                    ...

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Categories: survives, age,
Form: Monoku
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: survives, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Truth Found, Recovery of a Broken Soul
Truth Found, Recovery Of A Broken Soul

1.
In nightmarish dreams he found such great dread
Of lost hope, life's decay, eyes of the dead.
Day's clear lights his...

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Categories: survives, art, deep, farm, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unzipped Lips
As I was busy “being”
just who I am,
I didn’t care what others were seeing.
To be as they wish, would be a sham
and I will not...

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Categories: survives, introspection,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Shadow To Shadow
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Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where you played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade

Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
No grass...

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Categories: survives, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Thanking a Hero
How can I thank you for saving our lives?
Because of you my whole family survives

My pups and I were surrounded by smoke
As you rushed through...

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Categories: survives, animals, thank you, uplifting
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Categories: survives, people, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Categories: survives, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sounds of Splendor
Sounds of Splendor
 
Some say songs soothe the savage beast
On gentle melodies I feast
Sensual pleasures increase
 
Swing me, sway me, elevate me
Joyful psalms can jubilate...

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Categories: survives, happiness, history, musicbeauty, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Bold Women of Old
Eve, the mother of all mankind,
Adam found his helpmeet in her.
Old Sarah, through faith, was confined.
Rebecca, the first twins’ mother.
Shiphrah and Puah, brave midwives
Saved Hebrew...

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Categories: survives, appreciation, inspirational, women,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Legacy
In the 1960’s all around me were cheerful chants
inviting us all to ‘Make Love not War’
John Lennon asked us to give peace a chance,
some joined...

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Categories: survives, angst, dark, destiny, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member World War 11 Through the Eyes of My Mom
WORLD WAR 11 THROUGH THE EYES OF MY MOM
POEM NO. 1 OF TRILOGY

World war 11 was nearing its end, 
The Nazis losing ground
In Russia, been...

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Categories: survives, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Golden Brooke
He lives upon a printed page,
marching golden in a dream.
His words described a brighter age --
which quaffed the milk and lapped the cream.
Fate brought him...

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© Jim Dunlap  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: survives, appreciation, celebrity, england,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs