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Checkmate
Clever queen, I maneuvered my way through all of the subtle and most obvious plays 
Masterfully 
Sensual aestheticism, sexual teetotalism, romanticism, sadism, masochism, hedonism 
Calculating...

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Categories: textual, passion, me, heart, emotions,
Form: I do not know?



I Can'T Forget
I wake
cold and uneasy .
Fitful, next to 
fate’s anonymity.

The savannah interior
frees me,
from local textual thoughts,
and the worlds addiction.

Refused
the inheritance 
of earlier memory.
The girl, a dream...

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Categories: textual, nostalgia,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Engaging the Family Laundry
Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.

That disclaimer...

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Categories: textual, culture, destiny, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
Remembering Your Breath
Your breath,
now silent from my lips,
issues instruction
to sentient
others.

And you partially
recall
my own
jumbled style,
fresh, with your cinnamon scent.

The art
of remembering
is never to forget,
you
in the night of the...

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Categories: textual, loss
Form: Narrative
Teenage Human
I’m not a Teenager,
I’m Human,
Sometimes,
Parents think I’m an alien,
Strange language,
Textual misdemeanours,
Designed to confuse, bemuse,
Abhorrent behaviour,
Perpetual beautification,
It’s just a phase.
Maybe....

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Categories: textual, child, childhood, children, i
Form: I do not know?



Those Lowly Entelechies
Impeccant,
 of non-textual matters
 one’s covered flesh,
 and hidden embrasure’
 as diffusate primer
 slips life’s veil, and
 in agitated pontlevis,
 cleaves the universe’ reason…
 “Egads!...

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Categories: textual, giggle, imagery, introspection, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Letter of a Sis
Dearest sister-in law, 
 
Today, I met the person,  
you tried in your match-making effort for me. 
He was quite a nice one! 
Although,...

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Categories: textual, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Some Other Poet, White Iris

“Some Other Poet, White Iris”

When I look in the mirror what do I see?
I question existential questions and fiction, 
my eyes are the eyes of...

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Categories: textual, muse,
Form: Free verse
Lukes Purpose
Luke’s Purpose
Luke 1:1-4

Luke: “Many people have applied themselves,
to the task of compiling an account of the events,
that have been fulfilled among us [the shelves].
They used...

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Categories: textual, angst, atheist, christmas, history,
Form: Quatrain
By Grace
Except the grace by which I'm saved

Jesus,

Make my life a real prayer to you,

As I'm crawling, begging, pleading & passing through...

Perhaps, we in our society...

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Categories: textual, adventure, art, business, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seclusion An Open Form
SECLUSION
observed
patterns
 transcribed
in
creativeness
&the
reception
 in paradoxes
o
literal
originality

quality
fragmented
with
mandatory
fidelity
inwith
the
existence
to
preserve
a
 willingness
 undertaken
in
textual
      alternate
deviation...

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Categories: textual, poetry,
Form: Other
Tired Babylon
Tired Babylon

poor tattered remnants of great babylon
through poets works walls left battered and worn
she stands a sign of glory all long gone
so used the land...

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Categories: textual, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Tribute To Shakespeare
TRIBUTE TO SHAKESPEARE ( APRIL 23 BIRTHDAY)
O! Bard of Avon
You are second to none
Never went to university
But popularised universally
Reigned the Elizabethan age
With unbeatable craze
Caught the...

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Categories: textual, tribute,
Form: Free verse
In the Zone
In The Zone

whispers...
 through the dark deranged portals you evoke fear
 filled with angelic fervor on it's textual base
 yet we dig much deep then...

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Categories: textual, anxiety, art, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anxiety of the Missing
revolutions 
   in the ear
reiterations
  of textual 
        slapstick
mimesis
 mimicry
complicit
in verbal gestures
occupying
   ...

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Categories: textual, confusion,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs