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Premium Member Ifs and Thens
If you turn out to be right, at the end,
and no one ever knows I held a pen
or wrote anything virtuous other than
my Christian name...

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Categories: thens, anger, daughter,
Form: Italian Sonnet



I Understand the Animals Now, Frank O'Hara
I'd almost forgotten what we were like
so many thens, so many "do ya remembers" ago
the days fat with warm summer
dripping off golden smiles 
melting like...

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Categories: thens, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So I Can'T Call a Duck -- a Duck
SO I CAN’T CALL A DUCK…A DUCK
                  ...

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Categories: thens, freedom, writing,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Poets' Wine
I open the bottle and sit here alone 
just trying to find words that rhyme.
But the words seem to pass, so I pick up my...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thens, imagination, words, drink, feelings,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Heathers Spans
The heathers spans the great Isles
Homeland to many souls 
Souls whose offsprings on the tides rolled

These souls who hath spareness
Spareness which sharpens haste
To harnesses path...

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Categories: thens, history, introspection, life, mystery
Form: Free verse



Breathless - - - Once Again
tryptophan fills my veins,
lost in lingering lullabies-

i sort out what used to be mine
he was enchanting with evocative eyes,
feverish in tantalizing touches;
a fraction of forgiveness...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thens, dark, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Verse
- Plumb the Depths -
'plumb the depths'
______________________

I. (slow melody begins in G minor)

i cannot fathom the sound soul you seem to wear when i’m near,
perpendicular passion without fear-
for the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thens, love, song,
Form: Lyric
Knowshow
Knowshow

All nodes firing all the time
Shine on—the glare focusing the hacks
Everything shown
Everything known				
Metamalice is good to go
It’s the Knowshow
		
The devolving snarkyskanks are trickling it to...

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© Dm Swanson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thens, political, urban
Form: Free verse
Beautiful She Is
She means the world and thens some more
looking through the blossoms of trees
her beauty flows gracefully
she has my heart and has for all time
her caring...

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Categories: thens, love, sweet, beauty, voice,
Form: I do not know?
Life Is
Life is ups and it's downs, 
                it's shorts and...

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Categories: thens, funny, life, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Loves Abyss Hates Skank Taint



loves abyss hates skank taint
cruel ships paint tank
sinks pinks plank
drank stank
alibi
alibi
steam
cream glues
dream book shelf
pearl helps curse nurse 
times cries fried thens eyes
stone stars catch green...

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Categories: thens, art,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Down, Fall
like heavy snow 'pon cedar boughs
those shadows, long through winter
my conscience weighs the thens and nows
yet morrows - naught a splinter ...
where hangs the hope...

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Categories: thens, autumn, death, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
Frustra Nizzal Cadahbish
I HEARD THEM
THEY WERE THERE
I SAW THEM
THEY STOOD THERE SPEAKING
THEY SPOKE OF THE DAYS AHEAD
AND WARNED OF THE NEW BEGANNING
THEN THEY FADED AND WERE NO...

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Categories: thens, fantasy, future, hilarious, hip
Form: Chastushka
The Inventer of the Drolldium Parez
everything is well all around
look to the thens to see what 
you've found
gather your thoughts
and be higher bound
look to the tomorrows
dance like no one else...

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Categories: thens, creation,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Moon in Scorpio
#moon in Scorpio... 
As a result,
poesie naturally gravitated
toward intimate situations
that allowed her free reign 
to openly express herself. 

After I gave her psychoanalysis
I found her...

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Categories: thens, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs