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Premium Member Song of the Poet
*Note - I posted this some time ago on PS and it got POTD, resulting in over fifty comments of support. Social media is a...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: visionaries, love, song,
Form: Lyric



You Man
You Man

-a request by Mam Aiyah

You as a man can fill up this world
With the love of your heart,
Let them flow into your veins
As the...

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Categories: visionaries, dream, hope, men, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Strike
Strike!
O strike thy wisdom
and thy freedom;
strike!

While picket signs aren't weapons,
they arouse violent hymns
and bayonet dreams;
o strike!

Where authoritarian presidents,
governors and dictators
all think alike,
strike;
and strike thee common...

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Categories: visionaries, angst, death, health, life,
Form: I do not know?
A Child Stands
The Tears of Gaia

Wash down over a silent place,
Washing clean our plastic, 
Our Empty cans, our debris,
Tears flowing gently over, 
Humanity’s darkest fruits,

A child stands...

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Categories: visionaries, environment, green, native american,
Form: Political Verse
Epilogue
Written November 2, 2015


With my back against the wall
I fall
Down never ending staircases
That spiral down below
To seas where books float downstream
Along open pages reflecting past...

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Categories: visionaries, growing up, how i
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Her Many Hats
When I was young my mom, like most women, donned a hat when she went out.
Dad said it added to her beauty…of this I had...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: visionaries, mothers day,
Form: Verse
Axle Grease
Coaxing
Words from limbo
Into life.

Slipping them from
The pocket of 
Your muse, onto
Eager paper.

Lovely linen,
Thick with roses.

Or threaded with
Barb-wire.

Altar for the gentle
Blood of visionaries,

Mingled with axle grease
For...

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Categories: visionaries, work, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Being American
I live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s...

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Categories: visionaries, america, class, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
Rhythm and Poetry
Damn where is my mind at, striving and finding the best way to adapt,

           ...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: visionaries, destiny, dream, meaningful, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Computer Rule
Some say computers will replace the human brain,
Making it irrelevant, a museum relic, and obsolete.
Nothing in humankind’s experience will be the same.
Even exceptional minds will...

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Categories: visionaries, future, technology,
Form: Rhyme
The Black Society
Welcome To The Black Society
Welcome to the dead society
I hope you make through it this poem
I hope I make through this poem
I hope gunshots don't...

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Categories: visionaries, africa, character, freedom, identity,
Form: Epic
The Truth
I have heard it is built with absolutes. I beg to differ, why not? There is past and there is future. Though the future may...

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© Ember Bond  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: visionaries, character, courage, education, history,
Form: Free verse
Unintended Consequences
Everyone wants the world to change today
Why not, when so many people suffer?
Even in this scientific heyday,
Everyone still thinks they’ve got it rougher

And the visionaries...

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Categories: visionaries, introspection, world,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Reflections of Humanity During a Snowstorm
Bristling yet beguiling winds are
driving snow sheets through the dark,
and, secured by brick and lamp,
I draw a comforter to my breast,
one woven by humanity.

I sense...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: visionaries, color, history, humanity, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poets' Creed - We Are Building Castles In the Sky
We are building castles in the sky
with expectations higher than high!
Those gray clouds above have got to go.
We only choose to see a rainbow.

We’ll have...

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Categories: visionaries, love, peace,
Form: Quatern

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