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Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: typical, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Under the Same Moon -3-Way-Collaboration-
~Under the Same Moon~

P.D.
Our days are different, living under the same moon
Down here in TEXAS, life carries a different tune
This world spins on its lovely...

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Categories: typical, friendship, lifeworld, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Elephant and the Ant
There once was a little mighty ant
Who was extravagant and arrogant 
Known to be exorbitantly militant 
She was so combatant and petulant
They nicknamed her My...

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Categories: typical, allegory, animal, change, cute,
Form: Monorhyme
The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: typical, abuse, analogy, black african
Form: Haibun
Now I Lay Me
Now I lay me down to sleep
In my home that's really sweet
Had three large meals and a snack
There wasn't a hint of any lack
Comfortable shoes...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: typical, 7th grade, africa, angst,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Bright Beautiful Red
Big ripe Mcintosh apples found lying on the ground
Release sweet juiciness when their finders take a bite.
Ibises of scarlet stand elsewhere in the world without...

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Categories: typical, color,
Form: Acrostic
The Homeless Poet
A homeless poet

A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in...

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Categories: typical, for him, heartbroken, home,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Killing of One Hundred and Fifty Million Years
another typical day, with feet on the ground
  ordering the hedge to meet my image of trim
  many measured bits fall before the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: typical, bird, child, death, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Graceful
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: typical, analogy, community, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
The Box of Stuff
I heard him close shut the attic door,
I snuck in and saw him on the floor.

He found the box that I stored away,
As I turned...

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Categories: typical, life, loss, nostalgia, sadlife,
Form: Couplet
Modern Life
Modern Life
We are open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
Except Monday mornings and Sunday nights.
What are they on about, at this place that...

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Categories: typical, funny, life, car, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Trip of My Life
the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in...

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Categories: typical, travel,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member From the Newspaper Stand
Along this foggy daybreak stroll,
I tread along the intersection
between Mabini Street and EDSA boulevard, 
crossing number 25 Ortigas Road.

I breathe in the same grain 
of...

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Categories: typical, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Bhatiali
Afloat I am, 
The blind horizon spreads to no end.
O river of rivers, 
The queen river,
Flow as you wish, 
Gather silt forever
That on your shores...

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Categories: typical, allegory, beauty, fishing, mythology,
Form: Pastoral
Scripture Proven
scripture proven
Yes I was a typical boy 
Yes the flash was dominating over me
Yes ,a drunkard ,sexual immorality eish a smoker
Oh no what kind of...

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Categories: typical, christian,
Form: I do not know?

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