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Premium Member Unanswerable
She said we don’t sit together in the car anymore
Remember when we first met and how we grooved
I said too bad but I’m still here...

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Categories: unanswerable, funny, life
Form: I do not know?



The Unanswerable
"The Unanswerable"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Excuse me, but do you have the time
How can I verify the truth of your mind
Where did it all begin
How...

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Categories: unanswerable, art, inspiration, passion, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Hospitals Are
Hospitals are designed
(a) to make you appreciate your bed at home
(b) to prompt many unanswerable questions 
(c) to facilitate smooth patient care
(d) to never complain...

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Categories: unanswerable, appreciation, care, conflict, fun,
Form: List
Inexorable Want
Inexorable Want



How do I find
These sentences 
Written as they are
In ephemeral ink
Indelible lines
Inscribed in my being 

Spectral yearnings

It crashes me
To rocks
In unanswerable waves
Swimming tidal
To the...

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Categories: unanswerable, loveme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Understanding Suicide Understanding Me
Understanding Suicide Understanding Me

Awhile back I had a dear friend contact me to ask if I heard about the young mans suicide at a nearby...

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Categories: unanswerable, character, childhood, courage, death,
Form: Free verse



Lovers Eyes
Not long ago our destinies aligned 
and of all the people it had to be you 
your fragrance in the wind is left behind 
as...

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Categories: unanswerable, april, beautiful, cute love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member meh, said God -
he stood …

atop another world
another …
promethean creation
ineffable beauty and innovation spread at his
feet like a glorious carpet of progress
a macrocosm of concept and imagination
that surprised...

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Categories: unanswerable, allegory, analogy, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
In the Event Of
In the event that I forget
what this poem is about
I refer you now to the birds
outside my window.
They are silent – it is a sound-proof...

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Categories: unanswerable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great Beauty
The Great Beauty
                   by Odin Roark

How short...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unanswerable, life,
Form: Free verse
Sachin Tendulkar - a Poetic Tribute
24 years between 22 yards,
Records being made like palace of cards,
He is one who breathes cricket,
A player,whom no opponent can hate.
He plays cricket only,thinks everyone...
But...

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Categories: unanswerable, age, angel, courage, dedication,
Form: Ode
In Me
People come inside me to worship their lord
With different kinds of request from their lord
For what they asked is unanswerable
Because they are asking for the...

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Categories: unanswerable, addiction, adventure, allegory, anger,
Form: Ode
Un-Answerable Questions
What will you do?,  they ask
What is your plan?, they insist
Who will you be?, they demand 
I stare at them from behind myself 
My eyes...

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Categories: unanswerable, confusion, emotions, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Passing Poetry On
my life isn't over as far as i know
there's no enemy chasing me
or disease that have shown
as far as i know i have another fifty...

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Categories: unanswerable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tribute To Sachin Tendulkar
24 years between 22 yards, 
Records being made like palace of cards, 
He is one who breathes cricket, 
A player, whom no opponent can hate.
He...

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Categories: unanswerable, celebrity, sports,
Form: Light Verse
Songs of Power Contest-Let It Be
A poem written about "Let It Be" by the Beatles
Sponsor: Silent One

"Leave it as it is" said my affectionate mother,
She saves me from the shadows...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unanswerable, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, faith,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs