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Premium Member As Time Goes By
Born in cloak of modesty, life toddles, yet thrives
Musing of blissful eternity in domain of paradise
Befriending and beholding its virtuous design
Facing triumphs and failures of...

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Categories: tallies, life,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Time to Reflect
Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose,
Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes;
Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows,
Always...

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Categories: tallies, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Maps
This map has grown lines,
deep creases, curled corners,  
since you've been gone.
Tear-stains and fingerprints
mar its wrinkled pages like scars,
mocking markers 
of where you've gone.

Mum's...

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Categories: tallies, family, miss you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tallies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Life Is Like Football
It took just a moment
A single concentration lapse
And down the drain,Bayern's effort went
Whilst Messi enjoyed the claps


Life is like a football game
As dicey as a...

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Categories: tallies, art,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over

His cup runneth over, yet he craves more
As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar,
Rich is the life of caviar and...

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Categories: tallies, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Soldier's 4th of July
He sits on the edge of the hill
his abode from a society
that shattered his dreams

he can hear the echo of thunder
in the valley below
see bombs...

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Categories: tallies, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Returning Home
His life now has permanently changed
Costing him more than aches and pain
As slowly he walks on prosthetic legs
Humility reigns, taxing venturous brain.

Propelling courage fiercely he...

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Categories: tallies, courage, hero, hurt, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Are We Here
Written: August 09, 2023,                     Why...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tallies, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heroes
Where have all the heroes gone
In this nation facing war
Do you have faith in government now
You reap what you sew, no more.

A mother waits for...

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Categories: tallies, peace, social, war, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Angels Wept Tonight
Sam dated Sandy, things were fine and dandy
Born into middle class means, they were killing that high school scene
One afternoon in Sandy’s bedroom their play...

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Categories: tallies, bereavement, betrayal, hate, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Capsule in a Caravan
A shored life
awakes the old
patience is a virtue

a wondrous light
a way for the world
one way passage

yielding trifles
abundant returns
nameless faceless

novelties in scrolls
constant to air
The Book of...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tallies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Triversen
Alphabet Soup
Admirable Almights all I ask appreciatively allow me to attain, 
be beyond bourgeois breeding ballads for the brain. 
Create colloquialisms that cast competently into chimeras,...

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Categories: tallies, art, confusion, family, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Unopposed Oxymoron
Unopposed Oxymoron

This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission

Serious...

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Categories: tallies, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
The Fools Who Stole Our Trust
How unfortified are favored mystics; 
ripened men devoid of backbones, 
ladies with bogus analogies,
others, their nuisances known.

Some put fools on pedestals,
without attention to outcome, 
but...

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Categories: tallies, politicalmen, integrity,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things