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Premium Member The Invitation
December 25th-  The Christmas Wedding

Head-to-head,
Surrounded by seasonal silver bells
Scarlet passionate pink poinsettias sit
Foliage scenery 
Entwined by Christmas and Wedding bliss
Frosty winter weather warmed up by:
Rings of “I Do!”

The eyes of Eve hide underneath a white veil
Beautiful-
A bride walking down the misty mistletoe isle
Wondering why...

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Categories: tenable, anger, celebration, christmas, december,
Form: Epic
Eventualities
Sometimes in a black-veiled night
When sleep eludes my frame.
My mind succumbs to fright
Of things too wretched to name.

I ponder the possible eventualities,
"What if this?"  "What if that?"
They seem to be tenable realities,
And I am further taken aback.

One dark thought leads to more
'Til dawn's birth...

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Categories: tenable, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Milk and Bananas

" Milk & Bananas "

Hmmmmmmm~ Thought Tea ??
Does this blend require lemon a'plenty?
Or shall it find lime more then amenable?
Shall such cup as is drunk from thus be dainty?
Or should we drink from whichever we find tenable?

Har! Then say so meownself does now!
Preferences bein' whot...

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Categories: tenable, adventure, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



W. E. B. Dubois (From Pages)
Martin,
Not the German patrician, his vision was a stair
But our own peaceful prince
Well he invoked you
And not by calling Samuel back from the dead
He invoked you as seeker
He invoked as our searcher
For history, he said, is built on truth
No, not the lineal story
Of one race's...

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Categories: tenable, history, peopleme,
Form: Free verse
Calm Is Not a Fiction
I get pretty disillusioned with petty illustrations
Expressing lush lifestyle of unattainable wealth tenable to a select few
I get pretty flustered with beautiful posters
Impersonating as the real deal, imposing, intimidating with a candid sly smile

I get pretty bored hearing radio ads that would compulsorily end with...

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Categories: tenable, age, care, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Our Tool Belt
Let us use our diverse tools 
to build hope in their hearts. 
Like opulent homes 
developed with care, 
We must take the time to 
create a strong foundation 
in young lives bursting with 
potential. For even though their 
bellies may groan from 
hunger or their...

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Categories: tenable, analogy, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry



Collapsed Pedestrian Bridge
The new 950-ton bridge would beat
down time dashing to classes cheat
ting vulnerability asper thick traffic 
     putting life at risk, 
     thus laudatory alternative
 
     intending to offer Sweetwater 
     to last a lifetime would make fleet
(installed at Florida International University, 
     with eager pedestrians ready...

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Categories: tenable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Coterie Part Two
The illicit flames of cajole will wane like an impetuous act of wind.
Annul with impervious aplomb
Waxing perspicacious avenues
Clearing the nebulous
The schism extricate judicious clarity
Vicarious envoy
Omnious stance
Intrinsic string of which I now belong accrues each dawn
Tenable apotheosis oracular
Aberrant paths engage in the light as the nocturnal...

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Categories: tenable, faith,
Form:
Premium Member Determination
I have considered at some length, the incronvertible
Evidence of malignant intent also conspiracy to end
Lives of those oblivious to, and devoid of any ill intent to others (murder by any other term)
I am enraged..Which beleive me does not cover the
Depth and levels of my revulsion,...

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Categories: tenable, character, corruption, environment, prejudice,
Form: Prose
There Is No Understanding
There is no understanding;
Suicide is the final act of an individual,
Who has reached a point where life
Is no longer tenable.
To ask Why? Is to imagine there is sense
In this finality.
To speculate on the state of mind,
Which lays a foundation for 
Entry to eternity, is to...

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Categories: tenable, death, suicide,
Form: Verse
Please Do Not Weep For Me
Please do not weep for me!

(alternately titled: dost newt expend
precious tears toward pitiful poet!)

Intense passion to read
doth foster divine enlightenment...

Also simultaneously, albeit instantaneously
triggering brutal mind-numbing self awareness
starkly underscoring how existence (mine)
devoid scant trace
positive life enhancing events,
more so quality being alive

analogous - think vicious feedback loop
underscoring...

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Categories: tenable, 12th grade, betrayal, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Be Care Free
What a splendid thing to bicycle ride
Envisioning an adventure ahead
A two wheel machine just powered by me
Handle bars play as I gracefully glide
See sunglasses, gloves, and helmet on head
To be

Balance so tenable, a seat so small
Pressing pedal eager heart fills with glee
Cool wind in my...

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Categories: tenable, happiness,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Premium Member Ode Against a Grecian Urn
If all you need to ask, "Is beauty truth?"
It isn't much you need to know on earth.
It's less than what appraisers say it's worth,
This jar with frieze depicting frozen youth.

Curators and collectors both agree
If forged or stolen, sold dishonestly
Museum art debased on pedestals
Makes hiding art...

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Categories: tenable, beauty,
Form: Sonnet
Tughlug
You were exceptional 
among the ancient Indian emperors
with vast learning,
yet your silhouette stands
under the signboard, 	
engraved with ‘Intelligent Fool’, 
in the recess of history. 

It was tenable 
to transfer the capital
to the thorax of your empire. 
But why’d you drag 
the people of Delhi to...

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Categories: tenable, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Reprehensible Becoming Sensable
reprehensible
while becoming sensible
also tenable 
...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tenable, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things