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Premium Member The Mark Twain Sausage Analogy
**“Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.” – 
American Humorist/Author Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens) 



Prestigious lawmaking bodies...

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Categories: twain, funny
Form: Couplet



Rainbow Promise
He has announced his arrival. She waits,
Listening to the thunder cracking through
the layers of air. Looking at the lightning,
brightening and frightening the darkness away,
Lapping up...

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Categories: twain, earth, rain,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: twain, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Why Poetry
With Shakespearean romance I can't compete
Or Virginia Woolf's lovely agony
Or the wit of Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain
The genius of Emily Dickinson, splendidly plain

I know...

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Categories: twain, appreciation, encouraging, inspirational, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh Captcha Squares
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

  ...

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Categories: twain, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Keep In Mind - the Choka Style
~Keep In Mind~
(Choka)


God truly loves man
He has for us  a great  plan
You're very special to Him
He loves  us all way
Remember Lord died...

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Categories: twain, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Faith and Hope - the Quatrain Style
~Love Faith  And  Hope~
 (Quatrain)


Love faith n' hope, always keeps me moving and helps me along all on my go,
Love faith n' hope,...

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Categories: twain, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poetry Masters
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   T~ This is for all the great master poets of art.
   H~ Having the skills, the words, and the smarts.
...

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Categories: twain, appreciation, april, poets, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Silhouetted Stagnant Shadows
Silhouetted Stagnant Shadows


Stagnant shadows of night sequestered slaves in sight
Faces fading in fright as the fear feeds the lethargic light
Silhouettes of love in plight demons...

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Categories: twain, longing, lost love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Into This Night For My Love I Went
Into this night for my love I went,
  for all its splendor and lush wines,
  and majestic tapestries that unfold;
  velvet sheens,...

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Categories: twain, courage, love, mystery,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member I'M Huck
I’m Huck, and my last name is Finn.
On the great Mississippi I’ve been
playing hooky from school
‘cause there ain’t any rule
that can keep Huckleberry caged in.

I...

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Categories: twain, books,
Form: Limerick
Helen Keller - My Inspiration
Her hearing and sight were taken away
When she was just about two years old,
She struggled to become what she did - 
An example, brilliant and...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twain, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Dearest Love - the Cinquain Style
~My  Dearest   Love ~
( Cinquain  Suite )



For you 
My  love  grows more
With  heart  so full  of...

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Categories: twain, angel, beautiful, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Removed For Publication
“Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.” Mark Twain, on Alcoholism


05 July 2015
Poem of the Day - 07 July 2015
Write With the Wit of Twain...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twain, addiction, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lets Start Today - the Couplet Style
~ Let's  Start  Today ~
 ( Couplet )


 Let's bring into this world more love and peace
 So all these wars and violence...

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Categories: twain, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse

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