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As I Paddled the River Nile
As I paddled the river Nile
I met a monstrous crocodile. 
She smiled at me enticingly.   
I smiled deferentially.  
Through large white teeth...

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: writs, adventure, funny, me, me,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: writs, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Song of a Poetess


In a California suburb she sits,
Pondering to go on with her writs!
All seem pointless to her now.
Even though~to her family she 
made a vow!

To leave...

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Categories: writs, happiness, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Frame a Door
.....a miner's tale


Entré vous
Was the cry oft-heard
A smile, a nod a welcoming embrace

Now circling high above it's prey
Grand masters seek their earthly throne
From hence to...

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Categories: writs, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Etruscan Smile
my soul is the shape of a bloodstain
poured there by Nadine Maraschino
my right eye sits
in the ruby voodoo goblet
that she wears upon her head
Nadine was...

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Categories: writs, humanity, slam,
Form: Free verse



Brain Fly-By Writer-Righter
change, poetess, poetry, poets, word play, write, writing,

Brain ‘Fly By’ Writer/Righter©  

I need a fresh 'brain-poet’ tongue twist
My editing with ‘guess work’ is on...

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Categories: writs, change, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
You Can'T Pin Me Down
You can’t pin me down
I will slip away from your fingers
For I am a free thinker.
Ideas, I accumulate
My imagination is flamed
By my tots untamed.
You can’t...

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Categories: writs, adventure, appreciation, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Boy At the Park Contest
I met a teenage boy last night
He inspired me to write
His words penetrated my soul
He made me evaluate my purpose and goal
He asked me if...

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Categories: writs, cancer, caregiving, children, day,
Form: Narrative
Wellful of Wails
'You've thrown me over the edge of the highest peaked cliff imaginable
As I spiral further down, my outer shell gets roughed up
by sticks and stones
until...

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Categories: writs, friendship, love, universe,
Form: Free verse
Competition Limerick
You’ve pushed the boat out once again
You’re out there on the beach
With the one you chose
 to exchange your vows
Were the best ones out of...

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Categories: writs, funny
Form: Limerick
Dear Mother
Dear Mom,
you dont understand how much you hurt me,
you dont know how many tears i shed,
or the ammount of times i'm dripped blood from slits...

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Categories: writs, sad
Form: I do not know?
Inexplicable Memory Quirkily Unhinged
A rhetorical question finds me asking 
(to no one in particular) why I recall 
the names of grade school teachers 
approximately fifty years ago (whose...

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Categories: writs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Copla 78 Invocation: This Bad Guy World
COPLA 78 INVOCATION: This Bad Guy World

Recruit killers from the cradle
“Touches pas à mon Dieu! S’il te plaît!”
Crazed Pavlov mice

Curious holy books lie idle
Bits and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: writs, conflict, creation, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Her Body Electric
The steal strings are struck,
  pulling her body and soul taut then slack.
It's a loss of inhibition,
  that she feels might not come...

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Categories: writs, body, dance, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse
Beats, Fleets and Streets of Rage
Beats, fleets and streets of wits won’t quit over indiscreet tweets
Posted and pasted in error as you withdrew your succulent sweets
To banish and punish my...

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Categories: writs, poems,
Form: Free verse

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