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Premium Member A Fathers Immortality
Upon waking up this day, a single tear
Father your eternal immortality 
Still proves wise and gracious
I haven’t been misled by popular opinion
Which should be taken...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a grain of salt, father, father daughter, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Pass the Salt, Please
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it 
be salted? It is henceforth cast out,...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a grain of salt, nature
Form: Narrative
What Are Idioms
You might take this with a grain of salt
Knowing I heard it on the grape vine
Why they let the cat out of the bag
I'd say...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a grain of salt, character, education, humorous, language,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Oh, Those Arrogant Poets
"No, I won't read you, no matter what!"
"Even if you get a POTD, I will keep my heart and pen shut."

Such a terribly, nasty state...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, community, humor, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Gods Salt Shaker
Think of yourself as a grain of salt
 in Gods, filled with love salt shaker
Salt he adds to his eternal soup
 enhancing with love he...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, faith, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Why Poets Write
Why Poets Write


Why do poets write?,
Why does the moon shine at night?.
Why does water fall with such grace?,
Why is a rainbow such a beautiful sight?

So,...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, inspirational, introspection, urdu, write,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member The Cascade Adventures - Part 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, adventure, friend, mountains, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Numb With Fear Part 2
I am in deep despair 
I fear my name he will smear
I don’t know who he is
But I hope he uses a little sense.

I understand...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, funny, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence,
Form: Haibun
The Islands of San Juan - Timeshare
THE ISLANDS OF SAN JUAN - TIMESHARE

[FOLKTALE]

IN A PORTION, A SPELL IS CASTE.
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED NUGLUMMI.
IN A TRANCE STATE, THEY EAT HONEY AND BEES...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, business, change, character, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleeping Kangaroo -Don Johnson-
sleeping         (( COLLABORATION * Don Johnson ))


by~ DON JOHNSON

The Nullabor it does abhor
the desert  in it...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, animals, devotion, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Spy Vs Poet - Pen Trickery
Spy vs. Poet - pen trickery

(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)


Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script 
Ah, I see "I" the spy...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, creation, giggle, hyperbole, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kalamatsch
Kalamatsch

As a kid I played with mud in pouring rain
               ...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anyone Can
Anyone Can steal; Anyone Can lie;
Anyone Can cheat and then deny.
Anyone Can be resentful and bitter,
Give up easily and be then, a quitter.

Anyone Can allow...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Im Thankful Im a Woman- Womans Day Celebration
I’m thankful that I’m a woman
With the power to beguile
With charm at my fingertips
And bewitchment in my smile

I’m proud to be a woman
Of genders the...

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Categories: with a grain of salt, woman, woman,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs