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Premium Member Aborted Rights Remain Valid Facts To Speak Up
Attempts to cull the human unborn have caused mass controversy 
despite the widespread damage this can cause to the population 
under stable growth moving forward...

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Categories: valid, abortion, abuse, anger, animal,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs

There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…

seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape 
of sun-raptured...

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Categories: valid, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am More
I am more than your definitions
more than affixed labels
placed on my anatomy
more than your misconceptions
or even valid perceptions
I am more

I am more than what's written...

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Categories: valid, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Selfie Or Call Me Insensitive
You call me insensitive,
But I don't believe that's true;
Because, you see,
It's all about me.
It's not about you.

You say your opinion doesn’t matter,
That I’ve no respect...

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Categories: valid, angst, culture, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
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: valid, introspection, lost love, love,
Form: I do not know?



Woman In 2017
Fight hard 
as long as you're not too defensive
or worse, stronger than him
so we can't tell that he hit you
so we don't have to pick...

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Categories: valid, society, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woods
What were you doing, alone in the woods, my John,
What were you doing out at dawn?
Why it hasn't rained for ages now,
So many failed crops,...

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Categories: valid, abuse, anger,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Scum of the Earth
There’s a sense in which all life is scum on this earth
(without God as creator), life here (more debris
that just floats on the surface of...

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Categories: valid, faith, fun, philosophy, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blocked
To be blocked, it’s black and white or grey as a rock.
You can exist and be present, like floating particles in the air,
no mudslinging expressed...

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Categories: valid, anti bullying, betrayal, environment,
Form: Rhyme
America Sucks Less
This country’s sure got problems
Corruption, crime, and drugs.
And though we try to fix the world
The world just hates our guts.
But for all our woes and...

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© Joe Bob  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: valid, america, satire, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charlie's New Ballad - No More Chicken of the Sea
The lawsuit by StarKist is valid.
Their long time promoter’s new ballad
warns fish to stay clear
of fisherman’s pier,
or end up in somebody’s salad!


Oldie For Carolyn Devonshire's...

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Categories: valid, sea,
Form: Limerick
Gobble-De-Gook
Here’s a bunch of Gobble-de-Gook
There is no sense or reason
I just threw together some stuff I read
Which constitutes poetic treason!

Here’s a fact about knowledge and...

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Categories: valid, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slides and Stairways
Somewhere in the pretty petty imaginary illusion of delusion
There lies a truth an edifice of search between obtuse confusion

Windows like brick walls and concrete blocks...

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Categories: valid, home, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Speak To Me

Speak to me not in riddles, but with your truth, plain and uncomplicated
for there is no need for riddles when your thoughts are spoken with...

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Categories: valid, love, me, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Paraprosdokians
* A Paraprosdokian is a figure of speech
in which the latter part of a sentence or
phrase is a surprise or unexpected.
(I didn’t make these up....

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Categories: valid, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

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