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The Transients of My Youth
THE TRANSIENTS OF MY YOUTH


Old and wrinkly, whiffs of cigarettes and whiskey; his sparkling blues tell me there is bubble gum and a surprise; I...

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Categories: transients, age, america, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Dark Clouds-One Liner Two
"Dark clouds are  transients in the sky"







©2015Leonora Galinta
     All Rights Reserved


Dec. 6, 2015   10.15am


Third Place
Contest: One Liner #2
Judged:...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transients, nature,
Form: Verse
Curbside Motel
An open umbrella
    
    blankets

two sleeping transients...

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Categories: transients, night, poverty, rain, sleep,
Form: Haiku
The Bar's Tool
Scorned coquette
perched so solemnly
upon your death stool,
claw deep the fresh flesh of victors
bearing armfuls of decaying flowers
stolen from your mother’s grave.

A diverse parade -
clairvoyants and...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transients, recovery from...
Form: Free verse
Before It's Too Late
Before it’s too late

Distant bells clatter on cloud fed weathered skies where
darkness creeps past low light vestibules, faded beams flicker 
Short skirts wave in a...

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Categories: transients, dark,
Form: Free verse



Zenobia
For Palmyra in her eternal home
Your feminist smell, 
Your purple dress, 
And all what engaged of history, 
Transients with psalms war..
Brobos and Oorljnos 
And the...

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Categories: transients, history,
Form: Free verse
Valley of Stone Icons and Swingsets
in the valley of stone icons and swing sets
  concrete angels with brightly enameled orange
 ribcages crash violently into one another.

They leave cracked cement...

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Categories: transients, allegory,
Form: Ballad
For Sweet November Rain
Yes, I remember…
I’ve a sonnet of us, rhyming
silently, across the vast blue sky
in waiting, eagerly 
for sweet November rain.
We knew, we both
have the need to...

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Categories: transients, love, nature, on writing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Collection Plate
*Image of What Happens When I Put ... by UMC.

The Collection Plate,

'Tis a simple sacred place of worship bearing no weight, whereto, one's faith unchallenged,...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transients, analogy, character, money, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sing Him a Lullaby - 1
...the transcription of a dream.


A youngster, eight years old,
doesn't even have a name,
lives in the wild woods.
Cruel to animals, he kicks 
dogs and burns birds...

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Categories: transients, fantasy
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Ultimate Freedom
THE ULTIMATE FREEDOM

Walking the life up the steep hill path,
the prying eyes glued to the sparkling rocks 
that conceals some pristine crystals of diamond,
I spend...

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Categories: transients, desire, freedom, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cold Day
I am flung against the drab ashen phonon sky, weighted with ghostly iron clad jaws of bitter winter's grip, biting the feather-flared Doves gravid with...

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Categories: transients, abuse, conflict, dark, fear,
Form: Haibun
Strange Days
Oppugnant and invert, 
are the faces of consciousness,
so systematically permuted, 
are the intergalactic fences.
When talking to nature,
walking the trails of great explorers,
while taking a troll...

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© Shahid S.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transients, devotion, feelings, gothic, nature,
Form: Crystalline
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 2a
To Usher In The Inevitable

It was to be moments never thought to be
Moments to only belong in dreams
Darkness too dark to come before humanities to...

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© Joel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transients, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Rebirth
“Messages,
  trapped in the wind

Words,
  burrow deeply within

Voices,
  emerge from the past

Memories,
  and dreams overcast”

Leaves fall,
  branches reach for the...

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Categories: transients, spring,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things