Best Volunteered Poems

I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed

Its been a long fight....

Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw

Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows

Crowd...

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Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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 In honor of our new baby blooms, you are cordially invited to our annual tea.  This year we are serving a plethora of...

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I am a white, middle class, American male; raised in a white, middle class American home.  I would not say that my upbringing included...

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It was during WWII
Japan ruled 
Koreans obeyed

Japan ordered
All Koreans
Walk up to Shinto Temple
And bow down to the picture
Of their emperor

Are you kidding?
My father scoffed
My God...

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"Oh, The places You'll Go!"

Dragon was in a slump as the kids all left to go back to school.
So I read to him:“All the Places...

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Hi everybody, my name is Vera as some of you already know, and I am the wife of Peter Duggan. I came on this site...

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Finding the plot

Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories

The silenced absence 
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and mine

Quite...

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Even though
It was so long ago
It still holds the place in my heart
The one I reserved for special moments
with him 
The times before his health
got...

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I volunteered in a soup kitchen to help the needy;
the homeless and the lonely, the addicts and the seedy.
For me in the kitchen, it was...

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Gripped by transgressions in life of destitute
Withdrawn she lived in deviant troubled youth
Orphaned long ago by her own living parents
When in substance abuse she buried...

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My life has been adventurous and very far from mundane,
Though at times I've held the short end of the stick, to my disdain.
If there was...

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In a covered wagon he travelled west 
For every ailment he had a cure
His miracle oil he claimed was the best 
People he conned were...

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It’s another sordid workplace affair
Organized by the dashing and flamboyant Pierre
There should be a warning to beware
Bad week to start any diet – o what...

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