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Premium Member Convene at Crossroads
Written: November 09, 2023
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Meet me at the crossroads of my life.
Underneath the streetlamp, I will...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truncate, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, best
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tangled Tales - One Liner
Tangled tales tend to truncate the truth.

12/10/15
For Silent One's One Liner's Alliteration #5...

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Categories: truncate, truth,
Form: Verse
Towards the Land
In arcade of rigorousness
that brought the use of scrupulousness
walking in the valley of rectitudeness
with a pure mind of purity

which truncate not, witting truthfulness
to a steadfast...

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Categories: truncate, betrayal, corruption, life, peace,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member As Is Moments
Vivid sketches,
a parade
of resemblances,
canvas afloat
before my eyes:
expressionist
impressionist
abstractions
locked forever
in time:
the familiar,
the muddled or
befuddled
inventive
imaginings
before me file,
to stay awhile
and truncate my day:
I contemplate
and marvel
the many things
to me they...

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Categories: truncate, art, imagery,
Form: Verse
November 13th 2017 - Part 1
November 13th 2017 
Happy 83rd birthday to thy cremated mom

Harriet Harris fought tooth and nail
Mother succumbed 
to terminal illness without fail 
Ovarian/ Uterine Cancer to...

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Categories: truncate, dark, grave, happy birthday,
Form: Ballad



Severed Starlight
Severed starlight, brief lanterns

Truncate tingles, sugar burns

pen puzzling in oily ink

Dark dots on papyrus slink

Metre measure on tongue tip

Riddling rhymes gaining their grip

Cursive verses in...

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Categories: truncate, poetry, writing,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member My Fears
I fear for Nigeria my country
I fear for the giant of Africa
I fear for God’s Master piece
I fear for a country that is always
Trapped in...

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Categories: truncate, allusion, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embracing Poetry
Embracing Poetry

Freedom on the lam where the poet sings
To hearts imprisoned against their will;
Inspires the bereaved mind to spring to life
And uplift hearts bloom burst...

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Categories: truncate, inspiration, muse, poetry, poets,
Form: Sestina
Cast Iron
Cast Iron

       the unfamiliar sound rolls on and on
       a sack of words
...

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Categories: truncate, birth, solitude, time,
Form: Free verse
Look Around and See
Look around and see
How men hustle to taste the hustle of bee
Jumping from one hive without key
To another is a stress with no fee
Depression replaces...

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Categories: truncate, africa, anti bullying, april,
Form: ABC
Lamenting Life Lost Before
Lamenting Life Lost Before...
Last Rays Of Flickr Ring Candlelight

Approximately a dozen
orbitz around the Earth
(since mcmlix), the year
of my birth, an aversion
(stayin alive) constricted self worth

gripped...

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Categories: truncate, absence, age, cry, grief,
Form: Bio
Sounds of a Day Dispersed
Clawing at the doors

Windowless shops barrage

Their straight images on printed faces

 

Bedsheets of yesterday grope

Seamless skin wondering

About moods and ruminations

 

Clouds unravel before they start

As...

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Categories: truncate, faith, fantasy, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Defining Truth Defies Das Democratic Thinker In the Age of Trump
"FAKE" assertions unstoppably
bandied with beef,
(sans doughty deeds done dirt cheap)
courtesy of commander in chief
trumpeted as a way to backout,

embarrassment analogous to the thief
of Baghdad, when...

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Categories: truncate, anger, anxiety, bullying, crush,
Form: Political Verse
Simplicity
*SIMPLICITY*

Walked on my nerves daily the heart made.
Which always get me puzzle on the step to make.
Always in silence neither of not knowing what to...

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Categories: truncate, abuse, anger, art, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Fear
Whilst I remain hopeful and confident
There are doubts in my veins
Eating up my blood and causing pains
With absolutely no room to frail
I always formulate and...

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Categories: truncate, creation,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs