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Unreliable Narator
He was unreliable in many more ways then just the one,
Stretched his black wings and left his family for fun,
Now his life is complete as...

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Categories: unreliable, faith
Form: Free verse



Unreliable Ride
My memory is like an ill-tempered old car
that refuses to start
on cold, miserable mornings...
or sometimes stutters
and shudders to life
in fits and starts with rattling parts

Names...

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Categories: unreliable, emotions, feelings, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Moment
i wanted it...my God i wanted it

...but how do you do that...

                           ...

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Categories: unreliable, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words with Soul
My poems are words with soul - Silent One.

 As a monotone morning sketches 
charcoal trees under 
smoke filled foggy skies,
rain casually falls,
sliding down slate...

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Categories: unreliable, angst, how i feel,
Form: Prose
Premium Member - Faithful Friend -
A faithful friend
                      ...

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Categories: unreliable, friendship,
Form: Verse



When It Gets Old
I am moving in and out of these animated lies, 
Silver linings now sagging shadows
Burning desires now dimming coals
How did I ever become so fixated
On...

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Categories: unreliable, absence, anxiety, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Mist
We decided to take a walk.
If the moon and stars still existed,
they were hidden behind clouds.

Then a fog hit us like a wave, a cloud...

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Categories: unreliable, girl, night, teen, weather,
Form: Free verse
Human Lab
Half-buried in a mud pit,
a polluter bares all, body and soul.
Hands bound, ready to be stoned
to death.

A god was going to kill a god.
A dense...

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Categories: unreliable, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Freddie Vassalo
Controversial
Dead
Alive 
Missing
Back again
Gone
Outspoken
Talented
Did I mention dead
Resurrected
Defiant 
Ashamed 
Humble 
Proud
Searching
Angry
Beautiful
Thought provoking
Manic
Depressed 
Hurt
Human
Unreliable friend
Still a friend
I can't help but like the guy
He does have a tender side
Yes...

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Categories: unreliable, addiction, angst, friendship,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Cascade Adventures - Part 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to...

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Categories: unreliable, adventure, friend, mountains, nature,
Form: Haibun
I Promise
I promise…I promise I won’t desert you
This hardship you’re facing at the moment is temporary
Tonight…tonight, I will show you love so true
By wiping your tears...

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Categories: unreliable, deep, depression, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Solid Rock
Song Poem: Tune to

"On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand."

Ooo Lord in this Wilderness I stand,
Like Ha-agar often falling down.
Let an Oasis come near now,
With...

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Categories: unreliable, hope, how i feel,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and...

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Categories: unreliable, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Neighbor's Wife
He's been struggling with depression,
She said, so then have I.

It's our bad news
that competing depressions
breed more contagiously
than our cooperation feeds happiness.

Yet our good news grows:
Depression...

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Categories: unreliable, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Seed Is a Time Capsule
Seeds are nature's progeny en-capsuled.
Life's germ in suspended animation,
Awaiting the trigger to grow, scheduled
By warmth, rain, season to spark gestation.
Tiny seed has script to create...

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Categories: unreliable, nature,
Form: Free verse

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