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Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: usage, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet



Word Squirrel
Rodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal

Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can...

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Categories: usage, animal, children, education, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

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Categories: usage, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pen Versus the Sword
The incorrect usage of tense
And phrases of total nonsense
Wipe out brain status
With more apparatus
Than the Department of Defense...

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Categories: usage, allegory, humorous, war,
Form: Limerick
The Black Boomerang
The word’s speaker and listener would hear 
Cackling, 
Not from one another, 
But from a burning Sixo; 
They would feel
As though
A noose was choking 
Their...

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Categories: usage, black african american, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To H2o
H2o, showers does cause colorful flowers on earth to greatly bloom
It is on the atomic table: this of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen
It being...

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Categories: usage, life, water,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Soup Safari
SOUP SAFARI
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here I...

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Categories: usage, happiness, holiday, people
Form: Couplet
Everyday American Irritations
GROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING...

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Categories: usage, america, anxiety, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Blitz
In Pursuit of World Peace
When I reached at 4,
My father brought, 
A packet of gift;
Held me to heart,
Kissed my cheeks,
Then handed to me, 
Saying "happy birthday my son,"
Opened and...

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Categories: usage, peace, world war i,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hick Phonics
Hick Phonics - is a language to be taught in all Southern schools.
Here are some excerpts from the Hick Phonics/English Dictionary.
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Heidi - Noun - A...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: usage, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open Challenge
I love the blank, bare page
unmarred by usage
untouched by erasure
thirsty as desert sand 
expectant, waiting
to pull onto itself and hold
all the words of my heart....

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: usage, poems, writing,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Seeds
A small kernel, a tiny seed,
drifts into a fertile mind,
floated by inspiring muse,
sometimes angry, sometimes kind.

In furrows richly watered
ideas imbed, softening;
anticipated, cracking shell,
swift burst at...

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Categories: usage, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Thank-You Poem For My History Teacher
Dear Mrs Chan,

Thank you for all the things
You’ve clearly explained and shown
And even more for all that 
You left me to find out on my...

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Categories: usage, thank youme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice Contest
Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton


The Celtic solstice brings forth enchanting fear,
   equinoxes altitude from the moon’s apex glow,
     ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: usage, fantasy, magic, summer, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ah, Squeaky,Squeaky Shoes
Once my leather shoes made me proud with their softness and luster,
but after eleven months of heavy usage they have lost all glamor;
even small thorns...

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Categories: usage, funny, rain, me,
Form: Grook

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