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An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a 
Small part of me;         ...

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Categories: untidy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Inside My Head- For Contest
Hello there, do please come inside- no need to wipe your feet
excuse the mess, I fear you'll find it isn't very neat.
This place is always...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untidy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: untidy, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house, 
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...

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Categories: untidy, christmas,
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: untidy, bird, child, death, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Defenseless
I am just a swollen bloated thing in this harsh world
Nothing here but the laws of physics upon me hurled
No safety, power, decision is mine...

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Categories: untidy, abuse, analogy, anger, angst,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Clipped Crops and Croquet Mallets
I miss so many things: the old pear tree, which once lived by the walk and the bees inside. The bees almost never stung, but...

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Categories: untidy, beauty,
Form: Haibun
Sunflower
The rose was fragile in its beauty,
Its hue the colour of romance novels and warm tea,
But these flowers aren’t flickers of flames in winter,
They were...

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© Merel Vdb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untidy, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A New Beginning
Rain's drizzling from forest canopies,
Evening sun peeking through leaves,
Flowers rising from decaying hues
Amid the woods tangled and untidy.

Shadows are dancing unknowingly 
Whispering evening wind songs,
To...

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Categories: untidy, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Flood My Words
Time and rhyme, from somewhere it will shine.
Time and rhyme, will sometimes, be mine,
and when it does, it makes me high.
I want you to feel...

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Categories: untidy, lust,
Form: Free verse
Eating Out
EATING    OUT

Seated uneasily at the edge tables,  café males alone, silent  -
Focused on eating, heads moving, looking around to defend,
Guarding...

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Categories: untidy, life,
Form: Couplet
I Was Just Being Sarcastic, I Meant To Say All You Lousy Poets Who Rape Poetry
WAS THAT A HUMMINGBIRD I HEARD HUMMING?

Have you ever watched a hummingbird hover?
Well he does that to impress his lover
There are many ways to impress...

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Categories: untidy, caregiving,
Form: Quatrain
Les Miserable
Les Miserable 

I walked and walked down a steep ravine and came across
a village has forgotten by time by a road that evaded dwellings
A track...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untidy, absence, allusion, angst, animal,
Form: Italian Sonnet
A Perfect Storm
A bluster of transcending obscurity became a moment of weakness. 
Saturated in a tempest of mourning, I sought out the perfect storm.
No violence could save...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: untidy, desire, storm,
Form: Free verse
Songbird
Dear little songbird,
With your beak of gold;
Wearing untidy feathers,
Sing a song sweetly told.
The wings of my songbird,
Seek blue fields above;
Where my feathered songster,
Serenades his love.
With...

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Categories: untidy, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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