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Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: take ten, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: take ten, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: take ten, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric
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: take ten, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: take ten, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging
A funny thing happened on the way to my hanging
Couldn't sleep the night before my head was banging
I was innocent of a crime that I...

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Categories: take ten, brother, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Someone Who Used To Be You
When splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies

I...

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Categories: take ten, dream, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Longings of An Old Man
I long to—
Walk one more time
To where the land ends, and the ocean begins
To listen expectantly for the sounds of infant waves
Grasping layers of golden...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take ten, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: take ten, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: take ten, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: take ten, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Squalling Seagulls Sip Morning Sunshine
Squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
Greeting new sun, spanning over vast sea
Wailing upon hills, watching freedom shine
Sprinkling over prairies echoes of glee

Greeting new sun, spanning...

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Categories: take ten, bird, imagery, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: take ten, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: take ten, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Midsummer Breeze
Midsummer Breeze 

How may I extol a midsummer breeze?
As soft as rose petals in cooling wind
That flutters leaves upon the verdant trees,
And endeavors to make...

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Categories: take ten, flower, heartbreak, son, summer,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things