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Premium Member Hitler Burns
Hitler is burning
He burned yesterday
He will be burning tomorrow
He began to burn immediately 
after his last breath.
Hitler will burn forever.
He would gladly accept a drop
of...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termed, horror,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Categories: termed, appreciation, beautiful, moon, night,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Quantum Butterflies
butter...quantums!...fly in every kitchen

quantum butter however flies as...everywhere

when trefoil bubbles rise...as heat

greasing particles...so to speak

along times imaginary...numbered axes

and biasing spherical wave expansions...relative

some pre-caused destination point...

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© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termed, addiction, appreciation, butterfly, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Learning Young
Learning Young

From back when I was 7 and 8, 
When candy bars cost 5 cents, 
And  “being polite” meant 
Even to strangers.  The...

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Categories: termed, child abuse, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lead Us From Darkness To Light
In the beginning, all that was, was living light eternal
Vibrant in time and space dissolved ineffable peace
Pulsating endlessly in a singularity transcendental 
Sans identity, with...

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Categories: termed, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Global Warming
Record ice storms reported in the news.
Multiple car pileups.
Unwary pedestrians fading into sinkholes.
Power lines down, roofs caving in.

God is angry, letting us know
he’s still in...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termed, god, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse
Boomerang - 5 Stages of Poetry
as my pen positions itself
between my fingers  and pillows itself on my hand…
…I know not why I write and still I’ve got to take...

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Categories: termed, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Damsel Causing Distress
DAMSEL CAUSING DISTRESS


The knight errant sent for me, but I’ve gone missing
For three days now, while he’s composed a ditty:
In the tide of feminism I...

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Categories: termed, boyfriend, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Holodomor Genocide
Holodomor Genocide 



Native of Ukraine and Soviet Union,
Known once for my independence,
Was pitied tobrutal artificial famine,
Exporting our grain,and leaving us to die,

Declared Kurkul under Stalin's...

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Categories: termed, grave, loss, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Terrorism Is the New Face of Barbarism
Terrorism is the new face of barbarism 


 Decades passed since barbarism eradicated 
But our earth is once again confiscated 
Emerged by intimidation of terrorism...

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Categories: termed, abuse, confidence, courage, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bump In the Road
(Terrorist Attack-Benghazi 9/11/12)

The Navy Seals absorbed the brunt
of fire al-Qaida thugs bestowed
and died in battle near the front,

stood tall with courage to confront
a vile assault...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termed, betrayal, freedom, truth,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Brief: Blue Roses
A girl returned to school--still not quite well.
A classmate queried, "What's been wrong with you?"
She was so timid but at last could tell
the boy "Pleurosis."...

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Categories: termed, color, rose, symbolism,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Perennial Problems
I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.

Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or...

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Categories: termed, culture, history, humor, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Stanley Meyer -A Legend
Born an American on eighth month
Stanley Allen Meyer, a man worth, 
Designed technology of water fuel cell
Machines which as the perpetual motion.

Thing that retrofitted in...

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Categories: termed, confidence, dedication, inspiration, jobs,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lightening the Candle From Both Ends
I have long lost you 
In the wilderness of space,
My love for you 
Like the flame of a candle
Was snuffed so long ago 
By a...

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Categories: termed, conflict, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs