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Premium MemberTwo Straight Madelines

...curlicues perhaps
the Catholic nun
wouldn’t let me engage
in penmanship shape
“shape up, sit straight!!”
yet the ancients
would whirligig
with their featherings
fill up the ...
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Categories: bor, religion, writing,
Form: Free verse

Impossible

...I want to live in a world where  newspapers and all media are filled with true people, true stories of kindness and happiness rather than hypocrisy.
Where the earth soil is not a stage where the scr...
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Categories: bor, change, earth,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSign On a Barn Door

...The sign on the barn door 
Says 'Not a Good Neigh-bor'
   
   I speak, of course,
   of a dam ~ hoarse   



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a 'dam' is a female parent 
horse, (of course)...
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Categories: bor, horse, humorous, voice,
Form: Epigram

Miklos Radnoti Translation of the Holocaust Poem Letter To My Wife

...Letter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch

A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944

Deep down in ...
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Categories: bor, death, heartbreak, holocaust, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems

...Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, ...
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Categories: bor, death, grave, holocaust, horror,
Form: Free verse



Knife Crime Britain

...Wallet ?
Check 

Phone ?
Check

Key's ?
Check

Knife ?
Check

Death Wish ????????
CHECK

See you Later ?

Maybe you will ?
Maybe you won't ?

Whole life ahead 
Barely a teenager ...
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Categories: bor, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeborah

...De bor' ah is her Congo name,
To mispronounce it such a shame,
For few would read and say it right,
I asked: a sweet smile brought to light!
My travels though suggested in,
But butterflies? To t...
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Categories: bor, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme

Judge Dread

...in the year 2070 there lived a man from another fantasy
his name was Judge Dread & what was going on inside his head
he lived in the village of Shaun in Sweden with his family
he always supported ...
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Categories: bor, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse

Festiva Being Gently Used

...- a terrible homage to e.e. cummings

she being gently 
-used; and you
know a bit loose i was
careless with her and (having
never changed her oil tested 
her gas felt of her car bor aytor 
an...
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Categories: bor, car, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Incumbent

...THE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there...
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Categories: bor, corruption, culture, introspection, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIf I Could Talk To the Aussies

...I have a couple of internet Friends in Australia
We like to joke around some, so I wrote them this,
To the tune of "Talk To The Animals"  (Dr. Dolittle)


If I could talk to the Aussies
just imagine ...
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Categories: bor, humorous, international,
Form: Light Verse

Amateur Hour

...alth(ough) you
fore(go) the
quid (pro) (quo) &
free th(row) a bouteille de
bor(deaux),
it is most certainly jonathan (doe)
with whom you be(stow) the
(crow) that swoops o’er the
(plateau) in the same...
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Categories: bor, life,
Form: Free verse

Leaves and Shields

...Oft'times I see my friends all 'round
Lke leaves of Autumn, floating down
And softly drifting, side-to-side
A passive dance, on zephryn tide

Then when the ground is covered o'er
A million leav...
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Categories: bor, death, faith, friendship, day,
Form: Quatrain

They Have Taken Their First Steps In My Heart

...The pain first took hold of my wrists
In the heart within my heart
My sweet children
Took their first steps.
Rain drips on the windows
There is that which comes
From far away
With hands in han...
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Categories: bor, inspirational, love, nostalgia, social,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things