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Premium Member Harvest Inferno
Take me to the tombstone 
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf...

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Categories: wh, birthday, creation,
Form: Epic



Rude Hood
Once there was a girl, little hood,

She was a fine mamma, looking good.

Hood decided to take a walk

Didn’t see the wolf watching her like a...

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Categories: wh, funnybaby, baby,
Form: Burlesque
A Losers Prayer
I love you GOD
But I do not understand
When is it that you will let this pain
Come to an end!
I tried to end it myself
But you...

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Categories: wh, depression
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Poems, My Mirrors
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...

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Categories: wh, poems,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Thank You All and a Very Merry Christmas
Just wanted to say a very big thank you to all you amazing poets who took the time to comment 
on my last post ‘Sunny...

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Categories: wh, appreciation,
Form: Prose



Born Defective
I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past, 
very proudly they'll exalt.

Woman so pretty as blow-up doll, 
got so many...

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© Eva Soup  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wh, community, identity, immigration, political,
Form: Free verse
Stradivarius - Mia
S - she played like an accomplished musician		
T - throughout the whole of the audition 				
R - receiving a standing ovation after an 			
A –...

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Categories: wh, child, music,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member De Sss I Re
bre.a..the     ss.o..f...t     shhha.r..e...d     wh.i..s..p..e..r....sss
     sss.i..mple    sss.e..d..u..c..t..i..ve...

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Categories: wh, desire,
Form: Alliteration
Suicide Alert
One hundred years of hell
And a hundred more of pain
Why did I stop you hanging there
So you could hurt me again

I came gracefully granted your...

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Categories: wh, angel, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Not a Friend
Eating him alive
Like a beast from deep inside
Not seen, cannot kill
When will his suffering end?
Afraid, alone, no friends come


Eating him alive
Friends, ceaselessy grasping all
All money...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wh, death, fear,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary

[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wh, evil, hate, jealousy, racism,
Form: Couplet
The Love That Lasted a Night
Imagine a lovely garden, tea for two, and this story . . . 

I had never seen anyone like him before in my life. We...

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Categories: wh, love, sad, me, work,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Charted
Wi  T hdrawing
Be  H avior
Co  R ners
Wh E never
El   E vated.

Al  W ays
Gl  O omful,
Ci  R culate
In...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wh, character, imagery, inspiration, mental
Form: Acrostic
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like...

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Categories: wh, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet
In Front of the Church Gate
I had a dream last night
fogged by an uneven frost of the morning
guessing if the sun rose.

It dawned on me
it was night still
with forehead engulfed...

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Categories: wh, imagination, life, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things