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Premium Member The Trash Heap
Note:  All lines in this heap are from failed sonnets that I tried to stack without having any two consecutive lines come from the...

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Categories: trash heap, silly,
Form: Sonnet



Too Tired
Blurry thoughts, hurried thoughts, they need to settle down. 
Too tired to move, to worn out to groove, I'm frustrated all around. 
Crazy voice, I...

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© Ct Duet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trash heap, how i feel, sleep,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Want Not To Fade Away
My one burning wish -
I want not to fade away
like rotten lace, dumped
onto a trash heap and forgotten.

I want to leave myself behind, 
for those...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trash heap, character, hope, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Black Blood
Your blood it boils 
with the curse of oil
The backs of black
Their curse to toil. 

The legs you wear 
Covered in blood forever
And covered in...

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Categories: trash heap, africa, america, obituary, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
A Bag of Clothes
She left out of the store with several new garments in hand
Walking out the front door and now she's feeling pretty grand 
And so down...

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Categories: trash heap, care, clothes, giving, jesus,
Form: Rhyme



Pawns
We the old and broken, have become the pawns
in the grand game of politics. We are as in the game 
of chess of the lowest...

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Categories: trash heap, angst, future, hope, rights,
Form: Prose Poetry
Riffs In Time
Two soldiers. One fancies himself a punk rocking soldier of fortune and the other, nicknamed hillbilly, because he lost his shoes, they plan a trip...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trash heap, addiction, america, crazy, culture,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Drunk Tank Shank
I once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I...

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Categories: trash heap, drink, joy, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Unborn Song
The robin's egg rolled far away from haven tree.
A wee devil's hole in its side.
I took a one eyed peak...nothing left inside.

What to do with...

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Categories: trash heap, bird,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Forsaken Open Parasol
Lost in the alleys of despair my heart an open parasol
Protection of gray clouds and rain over the darkest hole
I curse every weeping tear from...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trash heap, absence, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Play Turns Ugly
young whippersnapper brain
pours out her last idea
flicking adjectives into dirty dumpster
nouns prance off, disgusted
without elaboration or fancy descriptions

verbs take the lead, 
kicking their adverbs to...

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Categories: trash heap, word play,
Form: Free verse
Awakening
I am the owner of many possessions
A great big abode
A mansion if you will
Set on top of Hillary’s hill.
   My mansion has many...

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Categories: trash heap, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greeny Mix of Vitamins and Protein
GREENY MIX OF VITAMINS AND PROTEIN

clenching my fork —
in my garden of leafy
goodness,
            ...

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Categories: trash heap, food, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Can'T Fool Mother Nature
DOUBLETHINK
Can’t Fool Mother Nature

1: THIS LIFE

Newspeak, Doublethink,
and other similar words
only bedevil us.

When trying to figure out what was said,
George Orwell In his novel, “1984,” 
left...

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Categories: trash heap, abuse, appreciation, confusion, earth
Form: Free verse
Sad State of Affair's
Conflict and fear
still useless mechanic's
within' the framework
of our mind's gear's.....

The battlefield's rage on the greater stage
while humanity wage's the smaller within'
inner conflict becomes the outer...

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Categories: trash heap, health, sad, social, fear,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs