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Premium Member An Unpaid Debt
With less tomorrows than I've yesterdays
In looking back I have but one regret
Before that last tomorrow fades away
I wish that I could pay an unpaid...

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Categories: unpaid, appreciation, forgiveness, love hurts,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Falling From the Heights
FALLING FROM THE HEIGHTS

Who knew the road would fill with gravel’s pain?
My feet, sore bare, beneath the calloused peat.
The sun beat hard, no friend the...

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Categories: unpaid, death,
Form: Sonnet
In Forbearance
Where was I 
when repo men invaded,
possessed,
boxed me up within his cool heart
fragrant in its distaste of warmer climates?
You know,
climates governed by love.
(Daydreaming of knights,...

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Categories: unpaid, introspection, lost love, love,
Form: I do not know?
Seven Kingdoms
			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and...

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Categories: unpaid, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Happy Birthday Ms Johnson
The price of wisdom won't go unpaid
As lessons learned enshrine their toll
But dreams will ne'er submit to grey
Nor the immortality of your soul

So sing o'...

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Categories: unpaid, birthday,
Form: Quatrain



Nightingale's Watch
Through somber steps each climb is made;
The fruitless efforts fail.
Thus, love unshared and work unpaid
Disturbs the nightingale.

In song it copes
With fears and hopes;
From limbs it...

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© Mike Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unpaid, death, depression, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Hourglass
The hourglass sat on the mantelpiece, 
Over a dead fireplace. 
      Its sand had long settled
    ...

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Categories: unpaid, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jane Doe
Her legacy, a carnage littered place. 
A crassness hidden by a comely face. 
How many roles she played to such acclaim
The naive lovers crushed with...

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Categories: unpaid, allegory, betrayal, character, corruption,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Apology Letter To My Mama
Dear mama,
I apologize for the aches,
And all the pain,
I apologize for struggle in your 
heart,
Torturing your veins,
I apologize for the stressful tears,
On account of non-listening...

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Categories: unpaid, caregiving, childhood, dedication, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Monster In the Closet
Lights turn off
and a small child whimpers in fear
afraid of the monster in his closet
or the eyes under his bed.
 
He cries silently,
attempting bravery for...

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Categories: unpaid, childhood, fear, night, parents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Bored With Everyday Chores
There was a naughty girl, and the naughty girl was she

She worked a crossword puzzle, while she had her cup of tea 

  ...

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Categories: unpaid, happiness, lifework, work, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bones of a Feast
Trash night
our street is lined with
overflowing garbage cans
because you have to pay x-tra
to have unlimited pick-up
the poorer class stack their trash to overflowing
the mouths of...

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Categories: unpaid, community, humanity, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Just Because I Said I Do
Oh the woe, for woe is me,
I said, "I do" to a teacher-to-be!
I tried to marry my best friend,
Now strapped to him, I stand condemned.

I...

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Categories: unpaid,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beinn Nibheis - Scene 2
Gravity enters my thoughts, what ever goes up has to come down. As i start my descent from
the summit of this giant of the Grampians....

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Categories: unpaid, animals, inspirational, nature, places,
Form: Free verse
This Noisy Head I Live In
this noisy head i live in
it just never quiets down
theres some motherf#@ker screaming at two am
about some unpaid bills or parking tickets
and some other idiot...

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© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unpaid, america, for her, funny,
Form: Free verse

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